Hans Dockter
Founder and CEO
Gradle
Hans explores the knife sharpening industry as a way of thinking about developer productivity—how we measure it and how we move it. He makes the case that for software development, just like for meat processing, collecting data and having the bandwidth and skills to interpret that data and apply learnings is the only way we can truly move the industry forward.
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Hans explores the knife sharpening industry as a way of thinking about developer productivity—how we measure it and how we move it. He makes the case that for software development, just like for meat processing, collecting data and having the bandwidth and skills to interpret that data and apply learnings is the only way we can truly move the industry forward.
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Hans Dockter is the founder and project lead of the Gradle Build Tool and the CEO of Gradle Inc., a company with the mission to transform how software is built and shipped. Hans is a thought leader in the field of project automation and has successfully been in charge of numerous large-scale enterprise builds. He is also an advocate of Domain Driven Design, having taught classes and delivered presentations on this topic together with Eric Evans. In the earlier days, Hans was also a committer for the JBoss project and founded the JBoss-IDE.