About Us

Cocking and Co. was founded by Romilly Cocking

Romilly has worked in software development since 1966.

For the last 20 years he has been practising and teaching the use of Object Technology. He has trained staff, mentored projects and architected enterprise applications for blue-chip companies in the UK, the Continent and the US.

His interests include Code Generation, Persistence, Knowledge Management, Thinking Tools and Agile Software Development Processes.

He is a frequent public speaker. He was on the committee for XPDay7, and is actively involved in the Extreme Tuesday Club. He is chairman of the BCS Spa conference for 2008/2009.

His current focus is helping financial clients to adopt and adapt Agile development processes. He first applied test-driven development on a project in mid-2001, and has been practising and evangelising it ever since.

Romilly is proud to be a founder member of the Highgate Guild.