Jim  ("Cope") Coplien is the father of Organizational Patterns, is one of the founders of the Software Pattern discipline, a pioneer in practical object-oriented design in the early 1990s and is a widely consulted authority, author, and trainer in the areas of software design and organizational improvements.

Cope is currently a partner in Gertrud & Cope, Mørdrup, Denmark, and in the Scrum Foundation. His work ranges from programming and performance evaluation, to organizational improvement assessments, organizational development, and process improvement, and to consulting on system architecture. Gertrud & Cope work proudly with a network of partners with high-quality offerings.

As one of the founders and proponents of Agile software development, one of Cope's passions is to root out dysfunction in widely but naively adopted software practices such as TDD and On-Site Customer, that look good on the surface but which do harm in practice. He also is actively leading the work in Agile Architecture in conjunction the Scrum community. Most recently he has been working with Trygve Reenskaug to take the DCI architecture forward. He sits on the editorial board of the LNCS Pattern Journal. He is certified as a CSM, CSP, and CST.

Cope does extensive consulting in Europe, North America, and the Middle East, with a special focus on the Nordic countries. He is a frequently-sought conference speaker at venues such as JaOO, Better Software, JavaZone, ROOTS, Expo-C, the ACCU Conference, Øredev, Øresund Agile, and the patterns conferences. He regularly gives international seminars on Lean Architecture, Scrum fine-tuning, patterns, and Agile software development and project management practice.

He is also a researcher formerly at University of Manchester, and is a past holder of the Vloebergh Endowed Chair at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has also held affiliations with Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is a past professor at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. His current research lies in DCI, in the areas of design theory based on broken symmetries in design structures, and in "entropic patterns" of product portfolio management.

Topics 

• Training
• Interview: The Agile Heart
• Spagnuolo Interview (Part II) 
• The Organizational Agility Program
• TDD Debate with Robert Martin 
• Cope & Kevlin on Agile & Fragile 
• The DCI Architecture 
• The SVPP talk on Variability and Domain Analysis (video)
• DCI at JaOO (video) 
• Interview on LPZ IT Radar 
• Serbia Trip (see also here) 

Publications

• My Books
• See my publications
  
• My Google Publications Site

Photograph by Christopher Roos.