front matter
Welcome to the second edition of John Ferguson Smart’s comprehensive BDD in Action. When I wrote the foreword to the first edition in 2014, it was with a mixture of relief and delight that someone had taken on the mammoth task of capturing the landscape of BDD methods, tools, and techniques. John’s approach was to carefully, thoughtfully, and thoroughly document what he saw and experienced, as a practitioner, coach, consultant, and trainer, and I was excited to write the foreword that introduced this book to the world.
Fast-forward to 2023, and we are living in a world in which everything has changed. A global pandemic has seen an unprecedented increase in the use of the word “unprecedented.” Teams and organizations are adopting distributed and hybrid working patterns, making collaboration on knowledge work simultaneously more important and more challenging than ever before.