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Personal Details

First Name: Helen
Last Name: Sharp
Employer: The Open University
Years Experience in Agile: 7
Short Bio: Helen Sharp is co-director and founder of the Empirical Studies of Software Development research group at The Open University. Since working as a developer in the 1980s, Helen has been keen to understand the social dimensions of software practice. This has led her to conduct a variety of studies over the last 15 years or so, focusing on several areas of software practice, including quality assurance, object-oriented development and agile software teams. Throughout her investigations, she focuses consistently on the people and their social interactions, rather than on the technologies available and where to apply them. Helen regularly features on the programme and organising committees of several national and international conferences including SPA, OOPSLA, Agile, XP and HCI. She is joint author of a leading textbook on Interaction Design and has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles.