Behave Pro by Hindsight

Helping agile teams
save time on software
development

 
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Our Story

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“When I worked in software development, I saw that — too often — projects were completed late and over budget and they didn’t deliver the required functionality. With experience in different teams in various companies, I could see this wasn’t an isolated phenomenon. The common factor behind all these failing projects was issues with their requirements, particularly rework caused by miscommunicated or misunderstood requirements.”

Alan Parkinson, Founder & CEO of Hindsight Software

As an agile coach Alan had been exposed to a technique called behaviour driven development (BDD), which proved extremely effective in solving the ‘requirements crisis’ that software projects were facing. BDD could bridge the communication gap between business people and the software development team, helping to eliminate the phrase “That’s not what I wanted” frequently heard in sprint demonstrations.

However, the tooling of the enterprise teams Alan was working with was becoming a barrier to successful BDD adoption. This got Alan thinking…

In 2012 Alan founded Hindsight and Behave Pro was born as a Jira app to support BDD. Fast forward to where we are now — we are still focused on trying to make it easier for everyone to experience the benefits of BDD.

At Hindsight our mission is to empower businesses to streamline their operations and enhance efficiency and accuracy, through transformative software solutions. We strive to be a trusted partner for our clients, delivering exceptional value through innovative technologies and unparalleled support.

Alongside Behave Pro, we support agile teams by offering BDD training and coaching services and we have also developed a range of handy tools for teams to use within their BDD practice. We’d love to hear your BDD story, so please feel free to start a conversation with us at any time!

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Meet the Hindsight team

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Alan Parkinson 

CEO & Founder

At work: I wear many hats within the organization, but having coached BDD for 8 years, I use my experience to steer the development of Behave Pro. Other roles include Head of Engineering, managing key partnerships, and nudging the company culture.

At home: Outside of work my main priority is family, and I seem to spend a lot of that time building railways for my children. My other passion is cooking; my two signature dishes are pancetta, mushroom and chilli pizza, and slow roasted lamb shoulder.

At team lunch: I’m a fan of roulette chicken wings with the chance of getting an extra hot one. If I don’t want something so messy then chicken thighs with extra hot sauce and cooling super greens salad is my go-to order.

Louise Chu

Chief Operations Officer

At work: I take care of the business side of things so Alan and the developers can focus on the product.

At home: I’m a keen cake decorator and martial artist, though they both take a backseat to family life!

At team lunch: I like my meat on the bone. Sides will depend on how I’m feeling on the day!

 
 
 

Proud to be a member of Pledge 1%

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Pledge 1% is a global corporate philanthropy movement that is creating a new normal in which the act of ‘giving back’ is integrated into the DNA of companies of all sizes. Spearheaded by Atlassian, Rally, Salesforce and Tides, Pledge 1% is already empowering over 1,500 companies in 40 countries to make a difference to charitable causes of their choice. We are proud to be a member of the Pledge 1% movement and have risen to the challenge to pledge 1% of our product and employee time to charitable causes.

“We are still a small company (especially by comparison to the likes of Atlassian, who is a partner of ours!) but this doesn’t mean we can’t start giving back to the community. Pledging 1% is achievable and the idea works well because the actual contributions will scale as we grow as a company,” comments Alan Parkinson, Founder and CEO of Hindsight Software.

Hindsight employees have a range of skills and interests on both a professional and personal level, and it’s exciting to support each other in donating our time to lend those skills where they can be of use. In terms of donating our product to charitable causes, we operate in a niche market, but many charities have in-house agile software development teams and our products can certainly be useful to them by helping them get software development right, first time. We offer a completely FREE Behave Pro license to registered charities and non-profits that are non-government, non-academic and non-commercial. Find out more

 

Contact us

 

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Hindsight Software Ltd
2a The Quadrant, Epsom, Surrey KT17 4RH, UK
Tel: +44 (0)845 8626250
team@hindsightsoftware.com
@TeamHindsight

 
 
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