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IBM Rational
Chief methodologist for IT with IBM Rational, Scott Ambler works with IBM customers worldwide to help them improve their software processes. Scott is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies and creator of the Agile Scaling Model (ASM). He is the (co-)author of twenty books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, The Enterprise Unified Process, and the forthcoming Disciplined Agile Delivery. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Visit his personal home page and his Agility@Scale blog.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Disciplined Agile Delivery: The Foundation for Scaling Agile
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Agile Architecture Practices for Large Scale Agile Development
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:45 PM
BigVisible Solutions
With twenty-five years of experience in software development, Skip Angel is a principal agile coach and certified Scrum coach and trainer for BigVisible Solutions, a coaching and enablement consultancy. He provides thought leadership, training, and coaching to new and experienced teams interested in agile practices including lean, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP). As a trainer, Skip has provided public and private courses to all sizes of product development and IT organizations. He has also been an embedded coach for pilot teams and enterprise transformation efforts across multiple local and distributed teams in the US and India. You can reach Skip at [email protected].
Concurrent Session:
Journey to Agility: Leading the Transformation
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
LitheSpeed, LLC
An industry-leading agile and lean expert, Sanjiv Augustine has assisted several leading clients adopt agile methods during the past decade. He is the author of several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery, and the book Managing Agile Projects. The founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group, Sanjiv is also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and member of the Project Management Institute (PMI)' Agile Forum Steering Committee. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed agile projects varying in size from five to more than one-hundred people, trained thousands of agile practitioners via public classes and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams.
Multi-day Training Class:
Certified ScrumMaster Training (CSM) + PMI-ACP
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
LitheSpeed
Arlen Bankston is a leader in the application and evolution of process management methodologies such as lean, Six Sigma, and BPM, as well as agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. He has twelve years of experience in product design, leveraging principles of information architecture, interaction design, and usability to develop innovative products that meet customers' expressed and unspoken needs. Arlen's recent work has centered on combining Lean Six Sigma process improvement methods with agile execution to dramatically improve both the speed and quality of business results. He has led the integration of interaction design and usability practices into agile methodologies.
Multi-day Training Class:
Product Owner Certification
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
A Visual Management System for Enterprise Agile Projects
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
LeanDog, Inc.
Matt Barcomb is passionate about building collaborative cross-functional teams, the out-of-doors, puns, and providing holistic sustainable solutions to organizations trying to improve. Matt started programming as a wee lad and eventually wound up getting paid for it. It took him nearly ten years before he realized that the “people problem” was the biggest issue facing most software development. Since then, he has spent his time and energy trying to find interesting ways of making the business-software universe a better place to work, play, and do business. Matt is employed by LeanDog where he keeps busy with organizational transformations. He shares his insights on his blog.
Morning Tutorial:
Brewing Up Exploratory Testing in an Agile World
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Blue Ocean Services at Seilevel, Inc.
Joy Beatty is vice president of Blue Ocean Services at Seilevel, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based professional services company, focused exclusively on requirements. Joy is responsible for developing new methodologies to help improve requirements elicitation and modeling approaches for Seilevel customers. She works with customers to build business analysis centers of excellence, provide training, and work on projects as a requirements architect to plan the requirements efforts. Joy has provided training to more than 600 business analysts. She writes about Seilevel studies and methodologies in white papers and on the blog.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
Jennifer Bonine serves as a partner and VP of Global Delivery for Up Ur Game Learning Solutions, a global people development company that offers F2F and virtual models for team and personal development. Jennifer began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. She has held director level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams for Fortune 500 companies in several domains. In her most recent engagement for one of the world’s largest technology companies, Jennifer served as the Strategic Quality and Process Improvement Executive. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to build several global teams from the ground up while managing the required organizational change.
Morning Tutorial:
What’s Your Leadership IQ?
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
Understanding and Managing Change
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
ThoughtWorks
A principal consultant with ThoughtWorks, Tim Brown leads the company's Continuous Delivery practice in the Americas. Most weeks you'll find him speaking about engineering practices, advising clients on software delivery challenges, and helping teams release software faster. An early adopter of agile methods, Tim has broad experience in leading local and distributed teams in continuous delivery, software development, and agile adoption. Prior to joining ThoughtWorks, Tim spent more than twenty years in technology, leading both large and small teams—as engineer, architect, president, co-founder, and most recently CTO. Away from his professional life, Tim is an avid cyclist and curates a sterling collection of ridiculous t-shirts.
Full-day Tutorial:
Continuous Delivery: Rapid and Reliable Releases
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Coveros, Inc.
Dave Burke is the COO of Coveros, Inc., where he has led the startup and growth of the company. Prior to Coveros, Dave was COO for Digital Focus, a software development consulting company that provided Agile adoption and software development services to customers ranging from enterprise class to entrepreneurial start-ups. Dave has nearly a decade of hands on experience helping clients understand, embrace, and gain business value using Agile software development principles. He has led numerous enterprise level software development programs and projects, including the development of a large scale systems integration strategy for a global 100 communications company. Dave's experience spans the US market and Europe where he established and led a UK based subsidiary of Digital Focus.
Multi-day Training Class:
Fundamentals of Agile Certification
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
Independent Consultant
A freelance senior software developer with more than twelve years of experience in finance, telecommunications, and security industries, Matt Callanan ( [email protected]) has a passion for code quality, maintainability and testability, and a fascination for team productivity. Matt saw the agile light in 2006 while working in the finance and security industries on development projects with the XP dials turned up to eleven. Since then, he has worked—both as developer and agile mentor/ScrumMaster—with various software development and DevOps teams helping them find more efficient ways of working together and shaping codebases in the direction of testability, maintainability, and supportability.
Concurrent Session:
Lessons from a DevOps Journey
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
280 Group
A senior principal consultant with the 280 Group and a Certified ScrumMaster, Greg Cohen is a fifteen-year product management veteran with extensive experience and knowledge of agile development. Greg has consulted to venture start-ups and large companies alike, and has trained product managers throughout the world on agile development, feature prioritization, product innovation, product lifecycle process, and product management assessment. Greg is the author of Lean Product Management, Agile Excellence for Product Managers, and 42 Rules of Product Management; a speaker and frequent commentator on product management issues; and former president of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
OPOWER
With more than twenty years of experience building business value for organizations such as Disney, NCR, Empire Today, and numerous small tech organizations, Michael Connolly has been helping organizations build successful agile teams that deliver high quality software. Michael’s years of experience have afforded him the opportunity to work in almost every position on the agile team which enables him to see process from all angles, help team members understand their place on the team, and maximize their value to the organization.
Concurrent Session:
Specification by Example: Building Executable Requirements
Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:45 PM
Software Quality Engineering
A consultant, lecturer, author, and test manager, Rick Craig has led numerous teams of testers on both large and small projects. In his twenty-five years of consulting worldwide, Rick has advised and supported a diverse group of organizations on many testing and test management issues. From large insurance providers and telecommunications companies to smaller software services companies, he has mentored senior software managers and helped test teams improve their effectiveness. Rick is co-author of Systematic Software Testing and is a frequent speaker at testing conferences, including every STAR conference since its inception.
Morning Tutorial:
Leadership for Test Managers
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Essential Test Management and Planning
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Spark Quality, LLC
Lanette Creamer likes testing software even more than Diet Coke and cats. After working for a decade at Adobe, including leading coordinated testing across products on the Creative Suites, Lanette jumped into independent consulting. Throughout her career, Lanette has evangelized advancement of real-time human thought over process solutions in software quality. Testing should be customized, using a context appropriate balance of automation and tool-assisted creative techniques to achieve effective coverage. Deeply passionate about collaboration, Lanette believes it is a powerful solution when facing complex technical challenges. Find Lanette on her well-known TestyRedhead blog, on Twitter, and occasionally in industry magazines and technical papers.
Bonus Session:
From Practitioner to Published Author: A Workshop Writing Software
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
Brewing Up Exploratory Testing in an Agile World
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
VersionOne
A contributor to the IT community for twenty-six years, Michael DePaoli has been learning, practicing, and helping others use agile and lean approaches to software development since 1996. Michael’s area of expertise is helping organizations craft agile transformation approaches that not only educate and establish agile and lean values, principles, and practices to begin an agile/lean transformation but also to craft a strategy for the change needed to successfully scale and integrate agile within an organization. Michael has a keen interest in applying complexity theory thinking with an interdisciplinary studies approach to his work.
Concurrent Session:
Why Continuous Improvement Programs Fail: Can Kaizen and WIP Help?
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
Microsoft
A senior program manager on the Visual Studio® product team at Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad, Darshan Desai designs tools that improve the collaboration and efficiency of testers and developers. Joining Microsoft in 2005, Darshan spent his first two years as a software design engineer in testing on the Windows Live team. He has spoken at testing and development conferences across the globe including STAR EAST, Tech-Ed USA & China, and EuroSTAR. Darshan has filed for a patent in the testing and development practices space.
Morning Tutorial:
Experience an Iteration: The Joys of Agile Done Right
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
DevelopMentor
An instructor for DevelopMentor, Llewellyn Falco is the creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests and Java Lambdas ( approvaltests). He spends most of his time programming in Java and C#. Llewellyn splits his career between creating new programs and helping clients modernize their existing legacy systems—and finds joy in both. He volunteers creating courseware, teaching kids to program ( teachingkidsprogramming), and on the SmartCare medical records project in Lusaka, Zambia. He blogs at LlewellynFalco.
Concurrent Session:
Test-driven Development: An On-stage Demonstration
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
Intellectica, Inc.
President and senior consultant of Intellectica Inc., Conrad Fujimoto is an information technology professional with thirty-five years of experience in the education, government, financial, and utility sectors. An accomplished educator and author of several courses, Conrad delivers courses in software testing, relational database technology, data modeling, application programming, business analysis, and facilitation techniques. He lives in Mississauga, just outside the greater Toronto area.
Multi-day Training Class:
Software Testing Certification—Foundation Level Training
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
iContact
Bob Galen is an agile coach at iContact and director, agile solutions at Zenergy Technologies, a North Carolina-based firm specializing in agile testing and leading agile adoption initiatives. Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to software development, project management, software testing, and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Master Practicing (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. In 2009, Bob published Scrum Product Ownership–Balancing Value from the Inside Out, which addresses the gap in guidance toward effective agile product management. You can reach Bob at [email protected] or [email protected]
Morning Tutorial:
Software Endgames: Learn to Finish What You Start
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Teams
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
A Test Leader’s Guide to Agile
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Agile Testing: Challenges beyond the Easy Contexts
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:45 PM
Sage UK
In the IT industry for more than twenty years, Julie Gardiner has held positions as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA, and project manager. She has first-hand experience as a test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager. Previously with UK-based Grove Consultants for seven years, Julie now is a QA Test Manager with Sage UK, R&D Division. A certified ScrumMaster, Julie specializes in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She has been a keynote speaker at STAR EAST, STAR WEST, Innovate Test Management, ANZTB, and STANZ.
Morning Tutorial:
Project Management Dashboards: Clear, Concise, Actionable
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Test Management: Being Relevant and Making a Difference
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Morning Tutorial:
Usability Testing in a Nutshell
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
ClearSpecs Enterprises
The chief technology officer and president of ClearSpecs Enterprises, David Gelperin has more than forty years of experience in software with an emphasis on requirements risk management and software quality, verification, and testing as a consultant/mentor and instructor, quality support manager, verification lead, project lead, and programmer. He has consulted for both commercial and in-house software development organizations. In 1986, David co-founded Software Quality Engineering, the leading provider of software quality information worldwide, and catalyzed the launch of Better Software magazine. He has a PhD in computer science but has managed to help people do useful things anyway.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Managing Requirements Risk: Concepts and Tactics
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
WellPoint
With almost a decade of experience in the field of software quality assurance, Santhosh Gnaneswaran has been advocating standardization of QA processes and product implementations with his teams. In his current role Santhosh supports functional and performance test automation efforts for a Siebel-based CRM application. He likes to explore the latest trends in software test automation and the possibilities of adopting them in one’s own organization.
Bonus Session:
The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)
Friday, June 15, 2012 8:30 AM
EBG Consulting
Ellen Gottesdiener is founder and principal with EBG Consulting, experts helping you deliver high-value products your customers want and need. Ellen is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker, and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. She works with global clients and speaks at numerous industry conferences. Author of two acclaimed books— Requirements by Collaboration and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger—Ellen is co-authoring (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices. View her articles, tweets, blog, free eNewsletter, and useful practitioner resources on EBG’s website, ebgconsulting.com.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Collaboration Workshops: Discover, Plan, and Prepare the Product Backlog
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
DragonFire, Inc.
The co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Agile Testers and Teams, Janet Gregory specializes in helping teams build quality systems. Based in Calgary, Canada, Janet’s greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. As tester or coach she has helped introduce agile development practices into companies and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Janet’s focus is working with business users and testers to understand their roles in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions. Janet is a frequent speaker at leading agile and testing software conferences around the world, including the STAR testing conferences.
Morning Tutorial:
Agile Test Automation
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Testing Traps to Avoid on Agile Teams
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
WorldLink, Inc.
Michael Hall is vice president of mobile technology for WorldLink, a leading developer of mobile solutions specializing in iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry apps for corporate clients and smartphone users. Michael is an experienced technology and software team leader with more than twenty-five years of practical hands-on product development experience at companies including WorldLink and Samsung America. He has successfully introduced products to the commercial market across varied industries—wireless telecommunications, business communication systems, defense, banking, and operations. A certified ScrumMaster, Michael holds twelve patents on software-related topics and is coauthor of a popular suite of iPhone and Android apps called “iTalk to God”.
Concurrent Session:
Performance Appraisals for Agile Teams
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
Catalysis Group, Inc.
A systems engineer and project management consultant, Payson Hall is a founding member of Catalysis Group, Inc. Formally trained as a software engineer and computer scientist, he has performed and consulted on a variety of hardware and software systems integration projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his thirty-year professional career. Payson has been a writer and featured speaker on topics of systems integration, project management, and risk management. His rare combination of IT project management experience and communication skills has made him a valued member of many project review and project oversight teams.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Twelve Risks to Enterprise Software Projects—And What to Do about Them
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Full-day Tutorial:
Consultants’ Skills You Can Use Today
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
An experienced test consultant and presenter, Dawn Haynes is a highly regarded trainer of software testers. She blends experience and humor to provide testers of all levels with tools and techniques to help them generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems. In addition to training, Dawn is particularly passionate about improving the state of performance testing across the industry. She has more than twenty years of experience supporting, administering, developing, and testing software and hardware systems—from small business operations to large corporate enterprises.
Multi-day Training Class:
Agile Testing Practices
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
McKesson Health Solutions
At McKesson Health Solutions, Richard Hensley leads the lean business and product development transformation, establishing the vision for development for the next decade. Richard is working with business and product development leaders to “pull the quality lever” in a meaningful way. Their goal is to transform the development organization responsible for products supporting four major lines of business that contribute significantly to the financial success of McKesson. Richard is a twenty-five year product development veteran in the healthcare technology industry and has built systems supporting pharmacies, prescription insurance claims, clinical laboratories, and many more. In these products, Richard has worked as software engineer, quality engineer, system architect, change agent, process lead, and technology lead.
Keynote:
Sustainable Software Quality—at Warp Speed
Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:30 AM
DevJam
Working with companies of all sizes worldwide, David Hussman teaches and coaches the adoption of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. Sometimes he pairs with developers and testers; other times he helps plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with leadership groups to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and a competitive business advantage. Prior to working as a full-time coach, he spent years building software in a variety of domains: audio, biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. For more information, visit devjam.com.
Morning Tutorial:
Tuning and Improving Your Agility
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Agile Project Design: Building Strong Backlogs
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Agile Estimation and Planning: Scrum, Kanban, and Beyond
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Designing Agility Practices that Last
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
Keynote:
Agile Measures that Matter: What Are You Really Learning?
Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:15 AM
Constant Contact
For more than twenty years, Gil Irizarry has worked as a software developer and engineering manager in both corporate and start-up environments. Gil is currently a program manager at Constant Contact, managing both the integration of their software suite and the cross-functional launch of their latest product. He serves on Constant Contact's Agile Council, guiding teams on how to become agile. Gil is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), a Kanban coach, and a popular speaker at conferences and meetings. Contact Gil at [email protected].
Concurrent Session:
Transitioning Your Team to Kanban: Theory and Practice
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:45 PM
Microsoft
Ken Johnston is the principal test and business operations manager for the Bing Shopping, Travel, and Entertainment verticals. Since joining Microsoft in 1998, Ken has held positions of test lead on Site Server and MCIS, and test manager on Hosted Exchange, Knowledge Worker Services, Net Docs, MSN, Microsoft Billing and Subscription Platform service, and Bing Infrastructure. For two and a half years he served as the Microsoft Director of Test Excellence. A frequent speaker, blogger, and author on software testing and services, Ken is co-author of How We Test Software at Microsoft and contributing author to Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation. Reach Ken through twitter @rkjohnston.
Keynote:
The Blurred Boundaries Between Dev, Test, and Ops
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 8:30 AM
Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.
Over the past fifteen years, Mitch Lacey has managed numerous plan-driven and agile projects. At Microsoft Corporation, Mitch honed his agile skills, successfully releasing core enterprise services for Windows Live, and transitioned from program manager to Agile Coach, helping others transition to agile practices. He became the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he coached customers on agile practices and adoption worldwide. As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, and his writings, including his new book The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Understanding Scrum: An Experiential Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Pitney Bowes
Jeremy Leach has more than ten years of project management experience implementing IT solutions globally in government, utilities, and financial services industries. His recent projects have involved migrating traditional on-premise solutions to the cloud as well as design and implementation of purely cloud-based solutions. Jeremy’s work in corporate environments and traditional start ups has provided experience with both the traditional engineering organization and the client-focused services environment. An early adopter and advocate of agile, Jeremy has championed its implementation and sought to understand how to communicate with those who are expecting the outputs of the traditional project management discipline.
Concurrent Session:
Implementing Agile in the Cloud with a Large Distributed Team
Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:45 PM
QSM Associates
As managing partner at QSM Associates Inc., Michael Mah teaches, writes, and consults to technology companies on estimating and managing software projects—in-house, offshore, waterfall, or agile. With more than twenty-five years of experience, Michael and his partners at QSM have derived productivity patterns for thousands of projects worldwide across engineering and business applications. His work examines time-pressure dynamics of teams, and its role in project success and failure. Michael is the director of the Benchmarking Practice at Boston-based IT think-tank Cutter Consortium and is a mediator specializing in conflict resolution for technology projects. He can be reached at qsma.com.
Full-day Tutorial:
Agile Benchmarking and Release Estimation: Building Your Own Metrics Database
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Scrum.org
With more than fifteen years of software development experience, Rob Maher is an agile coach and New Zealand’s only Professional Scrum Trainer and Professional Scrum Developer Trainer with Scrum.org. Rob has run many Scrum and ALM training courses and workshops throughout SE Asia, and helped several companies transition to Scrum and improve their software development lifecycle using solid ALM practices. His experience includes everything from leading change in large organizations to working as a ScrumMaster coaching teams in Scrum and software development practices to helping testers master automated testing techniques. Rob is a frequent presenter at industry events.
Concurrent Session:
Restating Scrum: Refining and Extending the Framework
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
Neuronetics
Dr. Neeraj Mainkar is associate director of software development at Neuronetics Inc., a medical device firm that develops the only FDA-approved Trans-Cranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy device for major depressive disorders. With more than fourteen years of experience managing software development in regulated industries, Neeraj is responsible for directing all software and firmware development of new products and features. A firm believer in agile practices, Neeraj is responsible for establishing an effective agile development process for software at Neuronetics. An ardent Indian music fan, he loves to teach and is a certified ropes-course instructor. Contact Neeraj at [email protected].
Concurrent Session:
Implementing Agile in an FDA-regulated Environment
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
Software Quality Engineering, Inc.
Joey McAllister is an editor with Software Quality Engineering, Inc. where he works on publications including Better Software magazine, StickyMinds.com, and TechWell.com. Joey enjoys interacting with authors to unearth informative and entertaining content, and thrills at the opportunity to make a good article even better. When he isn’t wordsmithing, he often can be found writing music that he uses to entertain his cats.
Bonus Session:
From Practitioner to Published Author: A Workshop Writing Software
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
Moser Consulting
A career tester, John McConda has been seeking to improve his skills and his teams' effectiveness for more than ten years. In his current role, John consults for a high-profile US Government contract, providing training and strategy as well as getting his hands dirty with exploratory testing, automation, and performance. He is an instructor for the Association for Software Testing and co-founder of WREST. John authored Busted: Five Myths of Testing Regulated Software, an article published in Better Software magazine (November/December 2010). He's also passionate about songwriting and being a dad. Contact John at [email protected] or @mcconda.
Bonus Session:
The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)
Friday, June 15, 2012 8:30 AM
LeanDog, Inc.
Chief technology officer and a cofounder of LeanDog, Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan has been coaching teams on agile and lean techniques since 2004 with a focus on the engineering practices. For the past three years he has experienced great success and recognition for his work focused on helping teams adopt Acceptance Test-driven Development using Cucumber. He has authored several popular Ruby gems used by software testers throughout the world, teaches Cucumber classes and workshops, and is the author of the soon-to-be-released book, Cucumber & Cheese—A Testers Workshop.
Concurrent Session:
Acceptance Test-driven Development: Tests with the Future in Mind
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
The Agile Institute
Rob Myers is founder of Agile Institute and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative. Rob has twenty-five years of professional experience on software development teams, and has consulted for leading companies in aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors. He has been training and coaching organizations in Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) management and development practices since 1999. Courses include Essential Test-driven Development and Essential Agile Principles and Practices. Every course is a blend of enjoyable, interactive, hands-on labs—plus practical dialog toward preserving sanity in the workplace. Rob also performs short- and long-term coaching to encourage, solidify, and improve the team's agile practices.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Essential Test-driven Development
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Afternoon Tutorial:
The TDD/Legacy Code Dilemma: A Hands-on Workshop
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
LeanDog, Inc.
A promoter and practitioner of agile since 1999, Michael “Doc” Norton is an agile coach and a partner with LeanDog. Doc's twenty-plus years of software development have provided him with experience on a wide range of topics. As a member of LeanDog, living in Wadsworth, OH, Doc provides coaching, mentoring, training, and delivery in agile/XP/lean software development techniques. Doc is immediately suspicious of anyone who declares expertise in a single programming language or methodology. He is passionate about helping others become better developers, working with teams to improve delivery, and emphasizing software craftsmanship.
Concurrent Session:
Agile Metrics: Velocity Is Not the Goal
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks' Chief Technology Officer Dr. Rebecca Parsons has more than twenty years of software development experience in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent Internet services. Rebecca has extensive experience leading the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems. Before coming to ThoughtWorks, she was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida where she taught courses in compilers, program optimization, distributed computation, programming languages, theory of computation, and computational biology.
Afternoon Summit:
Want to Keep Your Clients Happy? Make Your Systems Enhanceable
Friday, June 15, 2012 1:30 PM
Comakers, Inc.
An agile process coach, product design process coach, and instructor, Jeff Patton uses his seventeen years of experience with a wide variety of products—from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records—to help organizations improve the way they work. Jeff balances concerns for delivery speed and efficiency with the need to build products that deliver exceptional value and marketplace success. Jeff is the founder and principle consultant for Comakers, Inc. His articles, essays, and presentations can be found at AgileProductDesign.com. His writings appear in Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, Alistair Cockburn’s book Crystal Clear, his new book User Story Mapping, and on StickyMinds.com. A Certified Scrum Trainer, Jeff received the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to agile development.
Full-day Tutorial:
Product Discovery with User Story Mapping
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Adding Good User Experience Practices into Agile Development
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:45 PM
LitheSpeed
A leading proponent of agile methodologies and engineering practices, Bob Payne has twenty-five years of experience in project management, software development, engineering, and business. As an early adopter of Extreme Programming (XP), Bob has worked since 1999 exclusively as an agile coach and practitioner, mentoring and managing many projects ranging from five to more than one hundred people. As host of the AgileToolkit podcast, he has produced more than 115 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and agile practitioners. Co-founder of the Washington, DC, XP Users Group, Bob is passionate about training development teams in the use of agile engineering practices that allow them to deliver high quality software in an agile, iterative, and incremental manner.
Morning Tutorial:
A Visual Management System for Enterprise Agile Projects
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Accelinnova
An international leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-eight years of working inside and consulting with many organizations. She helps companies create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed—making them more productive, efficient, and profitable. Pollyanna is a founding partner of Accelinnova, president of Evolutionary Systems, and director of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership. She speaks and writes on topics of creating cultures of trust, leading collaboration, and business ethics. Her models are found in her book, Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility. She co-founded the Agile Leadership Network (ALN) and has chaired Leadership Summits in the US and England. Contact her at [email protected].
Afternoon Tutorial:
Six Free Ideas to Improve Agile Success
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Collaborating with Non-Collaborators
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Net Objectives
A fellow consultant with Net Objectives, Ken Pugh ( [email protected]) helps companies transform into lean-agile organizations through training and coaching. His special interests are in communication (particularly effectively communicating requirements), delivering business value, and using lean principles to deliver high quality quickly. Ken also trains, mentors, and testifies on technology topics ranging from object-oriented design to Linux/Unix. He has written several programming books, including the 2006 Jolt Award winner Prefactoring and his latest book Lean-Agile Acceptance Test Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration. Ken has helped clients from London to Boston to Sydney to Beijing to Hyderabad. When not computing, he enjoys snowboarding, windsurfing, biking, and hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Concurrent Session:
Ready, Really Ready, and Really Really Ready Stories
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
3Back
A software developer for almost thirty years, Dan Rawsthorne is a CST, an accomplished manager, mentor, coach, trainer, consultant, and architect. His experience runs the gamut—from e-commerce to databases to military avionics and air traffic control. Dan is an agent of change, helping organizations transform themselves through liberal applications of common sense and agile techniques. His formal training causes him to look for underlying problems rather than focus on surface symptoms; his military background helps him understand the importance of teamwork and empowerment; and his common sense tells him that change must happen in small manageable bites. Dan is co-author of Exploring Scrum: the Fundamentals.
Concurrent Session:
Patterns of “Big” Scrum
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
Gap, Inc.
For more than thirty-five years Pat Reed has been solving technology problems, designing and delivering cutting edge solutions, developing leaders, and driving transformational change. Currently, as senior director of IT at Gap Inc., Pat is developing a world-class career management capability. During the past seven years she has led IT strategic planning, global PMO, portfolio management, risk and vendor management, and IT finance at Gap. Pat started her career as a behavioral psychologist and later transitioned to designing and developing criminal intelligence and forensic systems.
Morning Summit:
Crafting an Agile Career Framework
Friday, June 15, 2012 8:30 AM
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
A senior business analyst at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Groton CT, Carol Scalice has several years of BA experience with specialties in enterprise business analysis and agile business analysis. Carol is a member of a BA leadership team at Pfizer and has led Pfizer's BA community of practice. In addition to spearheading Pfizer’s uptake of agile business analysis in research & development business technology, she has developed a reusable capability assessment framework that is used to drive IT portfolio decisions within Pfizer Global Research. Outside Pfizer, Carol is a founder and president of the IIBA® Pharma/Biotech Special Interest Group and a contributing author to the IIBA®’s Agile Extension to the BA Body of Knowledge.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Rally Software Development
An agile coach with Rally Software in the UK, Karl Scotland is a versatile software practitioner with more than fifteen years of experience in development, project management, team leadership, coaching, and training. For the past ten years, he has helped teams apply agile methods and most recently has pioneered and advocated for the use of Kanban systems in software and systems development. A founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society, Karl previously championed agile and lean thinking with the BBC, Yahoo!, and EMC Consulting. Karl writes about his latest ideas on his blog.
Morning Tutorial:
Designing Development Process Transformations with Kanban Thinking
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
The Science of Lean
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
Net Objectives
With more than forty years of experience, the founder and CEO of Net Objectives Alan Shalloway is an industry thought leader in lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum, and agile design. Alan helps companies transition enterprise-wide to lean and agile methods, and teaches courses in these areas. He is the primary author of Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, Design Patterns Explained, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. Co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium, Alan is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide.
Morning Tutorial:
Scaling Agile with the Lessons of Lean Product Development Flow
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Design Patterns Explained: From Analysis through Implementation
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Keynote:
Integrating Systems Thinking into Enterprise Agile
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:15 AM
Microsoft
Ravi Shanker has more than seventeen years of experience in the software industry, as a developer, support engineer, escalation engineer, and program manager. At Microsoft Corporation for more than thirteen years, Ravi is a principal program manager in the Visual Studio Test and Lab management team and was involved in the shipping of Microsoft Test Professional 2010. As part of the next version of Visual Studio, Ravi is working on testing and feedback solutions that target software applications. He is passionate about delivering products that solve real customer problems and has a patent filed in capturing rich feedback on working software.
Morning Tutorial:
Experience an Iteration: The Joys of Agile Done Right
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
AgileTV.co.uk
A certified Six Sigma Green Belt Practitioner, business analyst, ScrumMaster, and agile coach, Ade Shokoya specializes in multimillion pound, eCommerce projects. With more than eight years of experience gained from working on projects for some of the UK's largest companies— including Tesco, Capita and Kone—Ade adopts a holistic, K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple & Straightforward) approach to agile transformation. Author and founder of AgileTV and AsktheAgileExperts, Ade regularly interviews the world’s top agile thought leaders. For free videos, agile resources, and pragmatic solutions to common agile problems, visit AgileTV.
Concurrent Session:
Ten Things You Absolutely Must Know before Touching Agile with a Barge Pole
Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:45 PM
LeanDog, Inc.
Jon Stahl co-founded LeanDog after eighteen years of experience providing IT leadership in both Fortune 500 and start-up organizations. His passion is eliminating waste, optimizing the performance of IT teams, and helping organizations become lean and agile. Jon provides extensive hands-on experience in organizational transformations to agile and lean practices. He is an active leader in the agile and entrepreneurial community, openly sharing his knowledge at conferences and meet-ups. In addition to providing a home for more than a dozen monthly user group meetings at the LeanDog Studio in Cleveland, he has co-organized other civic events.
Concurrent Session:
Enterprise Agile: From the Top Down
Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:45 PM
Coveros, Inc.
Thomas Stiehm has been developing applications and managing software development teams for eighteen years. As CTO of Coveros, he is responsible for the oversight of all technical projects and integrating application security practices into software development projects. Most recently, Thomas has been focusing on how to incorporate security best practices into agile development and how to achieve a balance between business risk and cost while mitigating security vulnerabilities. Previously, as a managing architect at Digital Focus, Thomas was involved in agile development and found that agile is the only development methodology that makes the business reality of constant change central to the development process.
Concurrent Session:
Signs Your Agile Adoption Is Off Track—And How to Fix It
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
Leading Software Maniacs
Ken Whitaker of Leading Software Maniacs™ (LSM) has more than twenty-five years of software development executive leadership and training experience in a variety of technology roles and industries. He has led many commercial software development teams. Ken is an active PMI® member, Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified, and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM). Sources for LSM’s presentations come from case studies, personal leadership experience, the PMI Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), and Ken’s leadership books Managing Software Maniacs, Principles of Software Development Leadership, and I’m Not God, I’m Just a Project Manager. Learn more about LSM, a P.M.I. Registered Education Provider, at leadingswmaniacs.com and pmchalkboard.com.
Full-day Tutorial:
Deliver Projects On Time, Every Time
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Hewlett-Packard
A developer of large-scale software/firmware for twenty-two years, Mike Young began his career developing satellite control systems for Hughes Aircraft Company. He then moved on to developing embedded applications for the LaserJet products at HP where he was a key leader in HP’s enterprise-wide agile transformation. The co¬author of A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, Mike spends most of his time finding waste in development and test; then, as a ScrumMaster, he guides the organization on a path to incrementally improve. Mike is a proponent of adopt-as-you-go agile practices—start small, create success, then listen to those in the trenches to keep improving.
Morning Summit:
HP LaserJet Transformation: Using Outlandish Ideas to Deliver Phenomenal Enterprise-wide Results
Friday, June 15, 2012 9:45 AM
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