Chet Hendrickson was at Extreme Programming's ground zero, the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation (C3) system. As a developer on the pre-XP C3, Chet saw how poor communication, inadequate testing, and an overly complex design can doom a development effort. He helped make the decision to throw away 14 months of work and begin again under the guidance of Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and Ron Jeffries. Chet, along with Jim Haungs and Rich Garzaniti, in a talk at OOPSLA'97, was the first to report on the 'Chrysler Methodology'. The 'Chrysler Methodology' as the term Extreme Programming had not yet been coined.
Chet is an independent consultant, helping software teams improve the software development process by the application of XP's core values of simplicity, communication, feedback, and courage.
Chet's clients have ranged from federally charted quasi-public financial institutions to the developers of real-time petroleum exploration equipment.
He is an author of Extreme Programming Installed. The book, the second in the Extreme Programming series, consists of a connected collection of essays, presented in the order the practices would actually be implemented during a project.
He and Ron Jeffries are the proprietors of www.agilesoftwaredevelopment.org.
Chet is a graduate of Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. His graduate work in Economics was at the University of Cincinnati, where he to wrote PL/1 on punch cards.
