User:JonKernPA

Jon Kern, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, is an aerospace engineer turned software architect, and is credited with such industry slogans as:


 * Agile (from his work with agile fighter maneuverability and the prompting by Alistair Cockburn that he didn't want us agilists to be known as lightweight - anything ;-))
 * Technical Debt] (allowing software to rust -- although I see Ward Cunningham claims that phrase, which leads me to wonder if I heard it from him or if we both came up with it...)
 * And a "Fool with a Tool is Still a Fool" (I am quite sure no one will want this phrase as their own )

Kern was also a founding member of the Agile Alliance and served as an inaugural Board Member. He maintains a blog and wiki.

Jon lives in Eastern Pennsylvania, USA.

Experience

 * Cruise Missile engine R&D (1981-1986)
 * DOD engineering consulting (flight simulation...) (1986-1995)
 * Formed Lightship, Inc. (1995-1999)
 * TogetherSoft with Peter Coad (1999 - 2003)
 * OptimalJ Team with Compuware (2003-2006)
 * Immuexa Consulting (2006 - present)
 * Synergy Insurance Consulting (eons)
 * Fire Planning Associates and Blazemark (2008)

Patents

 * US Patent 6,938,240 "Methods and systems for improving a workflow based on data mined from plans created from the workflow."