James O. "Jim" Coplien (also simply known as Cope) is a writer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Computer Science. He has made key contributions in the areas of software design, organizational development, software debugging, and in empirical research. He held the 2003-2004 Vloeberghs Leerstoel at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and has been a Visiting Professor at University of Manchester.
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His ongoing work with Liping Zhao includes a monograph entitled "A Generalized Formal Design Theory" which explores the foundations of symmetry and symmetry-breaking in design in general, and in patterns in particular.
Cope was a founding Member of Hillside Group with Kent Beck, Grady Booch, Ward Cunningham, Ralph Johnson, Ken Auer and Hal Hildebrand. He has started up several of the conferences in the Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference series and is a longstanding pattern author and PLoP shepherd. His pattern form, the "Coplien Form," is a simplified way to structure a pattern in preparation for writing a more literate version in Alexandrian form. Together with Trygve Reenskaug, he was a principle in the design of the DCI (Data, Context, and Interaction) paradigm.
He was also Program Chair of Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications conference (OOPSLA) in 1996, and has been a co-founder and sometime chair of many software pattern conferences.
Books he has written or co-written include:
His early work on C++ idioms was one of the three primary sources of the popular Design Patterns. He also named the curiously recurring template pattern C++ idiom[1]. His work on Organizational patterns was an inspiration for both Extreme Programming[2] and for Scrum.[3]. In Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development book he co-presented an alternative version of Conway's law.