Jim Coplien is the founder of the Pasteur Organizational Patterns project, which was the foundation for the Borland QuatroPro for Windows study that inspired Jeff Sutherland to include daily stand-up meetings in Scrum. This work was also one of the main foundations underlying the organizational principles of Extreme Programming. In a former life Cope is best known for his design and programming books such as Advanced C++, Multi-Paradigm Design, and the pioneering two books of the PLoPD series of edited works. He is also one of the founders of the pattern discipline, and his book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Is the most authoritative work on Agile foundations today. His next book, together with Gertrud Bjørnvig, is Lean Architecture for Agile Software Development and will be published by Wiley in 2010. He is a partner with The Scrum Training Institute (STI), and also with Gertrud & Cope in Denmark.