Kent Beck Quotes
There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.
Beck, Kent. "Responsible Development." Kent Beck's Blog, 14 Feb. 2008.
This is a very important quotation for government officials because the time to complete modern digital tech projects are impossible to determine beforehand. It is only when one is well into the project and in many cases almost finished, that the technologists can accurately predict the finish date. The 2013 rollout of the computer system for Obama Care signup was one of the great examples.
Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent.