Peter Schuh is a team leader at ThoughtWorks, Inc., a company specializing in the development and integration of high-risk, mission-critical business systems. He has written and spoken about XP, the adoption of agile processes, agile development's impacts upon database administration, and the ObjectMother pattern. With a bachelor's degree in English literature and a master's in international relations, he is an unapologetic interloper in the software development industry.