about

I Care About Software

I believe that the software I help to create defines me as a professional, and speaks volumes about my commitment to software development.

· I care that the software I help to create is useful and usable

· I care that the software I help to create is simple and elegant

· I care that the software I help to create is reliable and robust

· I care that the software I help to create is responsive and scalable

· I care that the software I help to create can be extended and maintained

· I care that the software I help to create can be safely reused

· I care that the software I help to create is economical

· I care that the software I help to create is ready when it's needed

· I care that the people I work with also care about software as passionately as I do

As someone who cares passionately about software, I will:

· Look for ways to achieve higher value with greater economy in my work

· Champion those practices which lead to higher value with greater economy in the wider software development community

· Enthusiastically contribute to software development research, knowledge-sharing and debate with others who care as passionately as I do

· Defend against demonstrably poor practices, be they born out of ignorance or the special interests of people and organisations who evidently do not care about software as passionately as I do

· Offer moral and practical support to those who care as much as I do to help them do the right thing

Signatories

Take the Pledge (Please give your name, organization & URL if you have one)

Jason Gorman parlezuml.com	Dr Sue Black University of Westminster	Guillaume Bertrand	Scott Barber www.perftestplus.com
Simon Baker Energized Work	Antony Gorman electroholic.com	Antony Marcano testingreflections.com	Sameer Shaikh CTSpace
Gus Power Energized Work	Simon Kirk	Jonathan Kohl www.kohl.ca	Erkan Yilmaz iaskquestions.com
Milan Letiæ Lotos IT	Juan Arenas Márquez Accenture Technology Spain	Patrick Smacchia ndepend.com	Tom Gilb (author of Competitive Engineering) gilb.com
Martin Jul Ative	Capers Jones Chief Scientist Emeritus Software Productivity Research LLC	Vinit Bhagwat	Jan Daniel Andersen
Shrini Kulkarni Principle Consultant Testing iGATE Global Solutions	Steven Ashley Compuware	Erik Petersen Emprove www.testingspot.net	P.Jerald Rajan Ford IT Services India www.jerry-testing.blogspot.com
Professor Colin Tully Middlesex University	Steve Freeman Winner of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask Award	Taz Daughtrey James Madison University	Laurent Bossavit
Brian Marick www.exampler.com/blog	Frank Kelly softarc.blogspot.com	Christopher Redinger www.agiledisciple.com	Philip Rice Iseleigh Associates Ltd
Cem Kaner J.D., Ph.D. Professor of Software Engineering Florida Institute of Technology	Rosie Sherry DrivenQA	Robert Nadler Bob on Medical Device Software	Ritesh Shukla Mastiff Tech Private Ltd
Grady Booch IBM Fellow	Corey Goldberg www.goldb.org	Rahoul Baruah 3hv	Jay Flowers
Karen N. Johnson	Manikanda kumar T K Wipro Technologies	Anthony Williams Just Software Solutions Ltd	Josh Chisholm
Andy Tinkham GovDelivery, Inc.	Giles Cope Dresdner Kleinwort	Michael Bolton DevelopSense	Bill Hamilton
Matt Wynne Some Think Ltd	Kerry Jones British Broadcasting Corporation	Željko Filipin	Megan Folsom Test Utopia
Brian Weston Burger King Corporation	Ram Kumar Mantena CoreObjects	Nick Olivio	Christian Günzl Igniti GmbH, Jena - Germany
Tommaso Torti	Sanjay Dwivedi FOLIOfn Investments, Inc.	Nils Wloka (co-author of Entwickler Press' Spring Praxishandbuch) QuinScape GmbH	Alexandru Popescu Tronn Software
Carlo Jelmini Hortis GRC	Thomas Lissajoux Agile Coach Systemes Agile	Tim Moore Experimentus Ltd	Sunil Kashikar
Slavcho Bujaroski Sigma-SB	James Bullock Rare Bird Enterprises	Thomas Biskup www.quinscape.de	Jamie Avi-Dan Proven Consulting Ltd
Mauro Talevi Agilesque	Dan Nye Coedit Ltd	Jeff Home Coedit Ltd	Robert Fletcher
Gupta Boda Software Engineering CSE	Mark Heath Director of Engineering Truphone	Ivar Jacobson	Chris Rimmer Nominet
Adam Geras Ideaca