Daniel Terhorst-North

Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates

Daniel is founder of Dan North & Associates.

He puts people first in solving business problems and finds simple, pragmatic solutions, often using lean and agile techniques.

  • Originator of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery
  • Contributed to "The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends" and "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts."

What past attendees have said: "Absolutely brilliant!"
"Spot on and energetic as always!"
"I wish my manager would see this"

Talks at GOTOpia November 2020

Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to help business and technology leaders to optimize their organizations. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to complex business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.

The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Daniel has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts.

Recently he has founded a business agility consulting venture, Goalwards.

He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.

Check out some of Daniel’s past talks: