Charlie Poole

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Charlie Poole

NUnit Software

Biography

Charlie Poole has spent more than 30 years as a software developer, designer, project manager, trainer and coach. After a long career in IT for a local government agency, he has managed an independent consultancy since 1995, with clients ranging from government agencies to internet startups.

Currently, Charlie works with teams to help them adopt agile practices and with managers to help them understand how to work with agile teams. He is one of the organizers of the AgileOpenNorthwest Open Space event, held in Portland or Seattle each year.

Charlie specializes in the role of tests in agile development and regularly
presents workshops on topics like Test-Driven Development and
Communicating with Tests. He is the primary maintainer of the open source
NUnit Test Framework, supporting cross-platform development of managed code, and the author of the NUnitLite embedded framework.