George Stepanek

George Stepanek is a senior software developer at Mighty River Power in New Zealand. He has an M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and has gained certification as an architect in both J2EE and .NET.

George is the author of "Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail". This is the first book to analyse and address the conflicts between software development and project management. The book identifies ten hidden assumptions in project management that aren't valid for software projects. Agile methodologies can fix some of these problems, and the book also describes seven further techniques to help fix the rest.

He lives in Oranga, a suburb of Auckland, with his cute but attention-seeking girlfriend, Erica, and his cute but attention-seeking Abyssinian cat, Hermes. His interests include weight training, Go, photography and travel. He is also a very keen Wikipedian.