3. Acknowledgements

We’ve learnt and taken huge inspiration from many experts and practitioners whilst writing this book. We would like to thank the following people for their help and inspiration (in alphabetical order): Alexei Zheglov, Andy Carmichael, Bazil Arden, Dan ‘KanbanDan’ Brown, Dan Vacanti, David J. Anderson, David Lowe, David Shrimpton, Dimitar Bakardzhiev, Donald Reinertsen, Emily Webber, Gaetano Mazzanti, H책kan Forss, Jo찾o Miranda, Johanna Rothman, John Cutler, Karl Scotland, Larry Maccherone, Melissa Perri, Mike Burrows, Pawel Brodzinski, Prateek Singh, Robin Weston, Sam L. Savage, Seb Rose, Simon Machin, Steve Smith, Troy Magennis, Vasco Duarte, Woody Zuill.

We also give a big “thank you” to our reviewers: Amy Phillips, Clare Sudbery, Don Maclellan, Heidi Helfand, Helen Meek, Nick Brown, Stefania Marinelli, Stefano Luzi Crivellini, Victoria Morgan-Smith, Peter Marriott.

We owe a great deal of gratitude to our publisher, Matthew Skelton, and our editor, Manuel Pais, for their guidance and patience.

Mattia would also like to thank his family - Aindrea, Anthony and William - for their support and patience over the many days and nights that he spent working on this book, and the people in the NIM team at Sky, who over the years have inspired and supported many of his experiments.

Chris too would like to thank his family - Toni-Marie, Elco and Louie - for their support, Kate Gray for being a great friend and mentor and James Carpenter, Craig Russill-Roy and Andrew Fox from Honeycomb.

– Mattia Battiston and Chris Young