Andrew Stellman started work as a programmer at a national record label after graduating from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He spent the first few years focusing on technical design and architecture, but found himself increasingly responsible for leading and then managing the teams he was on. Over the last decade, Andrew has led teams of programmers and managed numerous projects. He now spends his time building his own projects and helping the people around him improve the way they manage theirs.
Jennifer Greene began her software engineering career in the early 1990s at a well-known online service. She has since built and led software engineering teams in organizations spanning finance, non-profit, natural language processing and media. She has built and managed distributed software teams and worked with developers around the world to improve their practices and build better software.
Jennifer and Andrew have been working together since 1998 building software and training software teams. They initially defined the software process at the company where they were working, and have since run many successful projects together. Their projects have been focused on science and public health, and they have built software for the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, the Business School (also at Columbia University), and the National Academy of Sciences. They have since branched out into commercial project management and software engineering consulting, providing training, project management, outsourced project management, and professional services to both the business and academic communities.
Their first book, Applied Software Project Management, was published by O'Reilly in 2005, and has since been adopted as a software engineering textbook at many universities worldwide. They went on two write two books in the acclaimed Head First series. Head First PMP has been recognized as one of the best PMP preparation guides available, and has been used by tens of thousands of project managers to prepare for their project management certification. Their third book, Head First C#, spent more than a year as one of O'Reilly's bestsellers and is currently one of the top-selling programming language books on the market. In addition to writing, Andrew and Jennifer speak regularly at software development, project management, and process improvement conferences around the world. Beautiful Teams is their fourth book.
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