Daniel Spica's professional career has included working a consultant for such companies as Borland and Oracle, where he has helped customers with issues regarding quality, architecture, and technological problems. Mr. Spica feels comfortable working on the edge between IT and business in different fields, including heavy industry and telecom. He is also a fan of agile, which he finds opposite to the approaches in which people are viewed solely as human resources. Mr. Spica enjoys finding common areas among different management schools and combining these in usable methods, which help people manage projects successfully. In his free time, he is a PhD student at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he is working on his thesis on the reliability aspects of IT systems. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.