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An agile coach with WSA Consulting, Inc., Steve Adolph partners with Scaled Agile and Rally Software where he pursues his passion for helping organizations get the job done. He has been creating and managing software development projects long enough to remember Fortran and OS/MVT JCL. Steve’s professional career includes many exciting and critical projects—designing call processing software for digital telephone exchanges, design and development of leading edge network management systems, railway signaling, and telecom billing.

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Editor-in-chief of CM Crossroads and author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World, Bob Aiello is a consultant and software engineer specializing in software process improvement, including software configuration and release management. He has more than twenty-five years of experience as a technical manager at top New York City financial services firms, where he held company-wide responsibility for configuration management.

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Scott Ambler works with organizations worldwide to help them improve their software processes. Scott is the founder of the Agile Modeling, Agile Data, Disciplined Agile Delivery, and Enterprise Unified Process methodologies, and creator of the Agile Scaling Model. A senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Scott is the coauthor of twenty-one books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, The Enterprise Unified Process, and Disciplined Agile Delivery.

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Chris Ampenberger is a development manager at PHT Corporation, the leading provider of innovative systems used to collect patient-driven eData for clinical research. Chris manages three agile development teams which maintain PHT’s back-end systems that receive and process all acquired data. He has several years of experience managing software development teams in a number of industries. Chris started practicing agile seven years ago and managed its complete implementations in two companies.

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Sanjiv Augustine is an industry-leading agile and lean expert, author, speaker, management consultant, and trainer. He is the president of LitheSpeed, an agile consulting, training, and product development company. For more than twelve years, Sanjiv has managed agile projects from five to more than 100 people, trained thousands of agile practitioners through workshops and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams.

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odbox

Matt Barcomb (@mattbarcomb) is passionate about building collaborative, cross-functional teams; enjoys being out-of-doors; loves punning; and thrives on guiding organizations toward sustainable, adaptive, and holistic improvement. Matt started programming as a wee lad and eventually wound up getting paid for it. It took him nearly ten years to realize that “people problems” were the biggest issue facing most software development businesses.

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Jennifer Bonine is a VP of global delivery and solutions for tap|QA Inc., a global company that specializes in strategic solutions for businesses. Jennifer began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. She has held executive level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams for Fortune 500 companies in several domains.

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HP Enterprise Security
Concurrent Sessions Software Security Goes Mobile

Product manager for HP’s Enterprise Security group, Erik Costlow is responsible for product strategy, working closely with customers as well as development, sales, and marketing teams. He has contributed to industry best practices including OpenSAMM. Previously, Erik worked as a software security consultant for Fortify Software (acquired by HP).

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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.

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A contributor to the IT community for twenty-seven years, Michael DePaoli has been practicing agile and lean approaches to software development since 1996. Michael gained his experience working in roles from programmer to product manager to CTO in companies including Adobe Systems, American Express, Sprint, and VersionOne.

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George Dinwiddie is an independent software development consultant who helps organizations, large and small, increase the effectiveness of their software development efforts. As a coach, George he provides guidance over a broad range, at the organizational, process, team, interpersonal, and technical levels. As a trainer, he offers experiential education in technical practices and agile methods. George is currently crusading to break down the barriers that hinder effective collaboration between the business, the programmers, and the testers.

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A software engineer at eBay, Janarthanan Eindhal leads quality engineering efforts, innovation, and adoption of agile practices. Passionate about quality, Janarthanan believes customer satisfaction is the single most important measure of software quality. He is an evangelist of software engineering best practices and believes that quality should be built in during every step of development cycle. Janarthanan is always on the lookout for latest trends and tools that help build quality products.

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BigVisible Solutions

Jim Elvidge has had more than thirty years of fun in the web, new media, eCommerce, financial, communications, and entertainment industries. He began his career as a digital signal processing specialist and holds four patents in that area. Jim co-founded RadioAMP in 1999, the first private-label web radio company. As VP of technical operations at Vicorp Interactive Systems and VP of customer engineering at Watercove Networks, he led large software development and professional services teams in delivering complex communications systems to customers worldwide.

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Since 1980, Dale Emery has worked in both IT organizations and software product development companies as a developer, manager, process steward, trainer, and consultant. He helps people apply the agile values of communication, feedback, simplicity, courage, and respect to software development. Dale's combination of deep technical expertise and extensive organizational development experience makes him particularly effective in working with software teams.

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Martin Franklin has twenty-six years of professional experience as a software developer and architect at BP, DuPont, Sun Microsystems, and numerous startups. In 2004, Martin went to Intuit to build a CRM system to manage the 40 million TurboTax and Quicken customers. He then moved into TurboTax development operations where he began leading the organization toward true agile by evolving the build and deploy processes and services architecture.

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Comcast
Concurrent Sessions Non-Pathological Software Metrics

Stephen Frein is a software development manager at Comcast, where his team creates tools for process automation and quality assurance. As an adjunct professor at Drexel University, he delivers soporific lectures on database development and IT management. Stephen has been leading development teams for fifteen years, and occasionally does it well, mostly by dint of accidents he cannot reliably replicate. He has presented at previous conferences by sneaking into unused rooms and deceiving the unsuspecting.

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Intellectica Systems Inc.

President and senior consultant of Intellectica Systems 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.

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Bob Galen is an agile coach at RGalen Consulting and director of 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, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and an active member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance.

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DragonFire, Inc.
Concurrent Sessions The Agile Tester’s Mindset

Agile testing coach and practitioner Janet Gregory (@janetgregoryca) is the coauthor of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams and a contributor to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product. For the past ten years, she has been working with teams to transition to agile development.

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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, Payson 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. He has been a writer and featured speaker on topics of systems integration, project management, and risk management.

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Bob Hartman’s logic-based approach to development and quality was honed early in his now more than thirty-year software development career. Bob has acquired wide-ranging industry knowledge by working as a software developer, tester, product manager, project manager, development manager, and executive. During the past ten years, he has grown from being an early adopter of agile to his current status as a Certified Scrum Trainer and Coach.

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PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Concurrent Sessions Building Quality In

Dawn Haynes is COO, principal trainer, and consultant for PerfTestPlus, Inc., and a former director of the Association for Software Testing. Dawn’s unique blend of experience, humor, and effectiveness at providing tools and techniques that help students at all levels generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems has resulted in her international recognition as an elite trainer of testers. She provides consulting services and is a frequent speaker at testing conferences, local groups, and intimate gatherings of testers.

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Arthur Hicken has been involved in automating various practices at Parasoft for more than twenty years. He has worked on projects including database development, the software development lifecycle, web publishing and monitoring, and integration with legacy systems. Arthur has worked with IT departments in companies including Cisco, Vanguard, and Motorola to help improve their software development practices. He has developed and conducted numerous technical training courses at Parasoft.

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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 the audio, biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education sectors.

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Institute for Leadership Excellence and Development, Inc.

Andy Kaufman works worldwide with people who are struggling with how to lead teams and deliver projects. Andy helps professionals get focused, take action, and deliver results. His keynotes, workshops, and executive coaching services have reached tens of thousands of people from hundreds of companies, helping them deliver their projects, become more confident leaders, and achieve the results they desire while maintaining a balanced life.

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As CEO of Tasktop Technologies Mik Kersten sets the strategic direction of the company and drives many of Tasktop's key partnerships and key customer accounts. He is very active in maintaining the company culture and values. Mik created the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and the task-focused interface while working on his Ph.D. in computer science. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ.

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A portfolio manager at McKinsey & Company and an avid agile enthusiast, Kanchan Khera believes that agile is a way of life and a very powerful concept with the pure intent of making successful products and happy people. She sees huge untapped potential in agile that could change the way we think and work. Kanchan has extensive experience with agile teams in varied roles, has spoken at conferences worldwide, and is considering writing a book about her journey building high performing teams. Kanchan enjoys painting, listening to music, traveling, and problem solving.

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Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.

Over the past fifteen years, Mitch Lacey has managed numerous plan-driven and agile projects. At Microsoft, 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. At Ascentium Corporation he became the Agile Practice Manager, coaching customers on agile practices and adoption worldwide.

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Bindu Laxminarayan is an ISTQB Advanced Level Certified Tester with experience in testing various products related to hosting solutions, retail, airlines, and security domains. She has experience in testing cloud applications, web applications and services, APIs-DLL, installation and de-installation, application features, and websites along with testing desktop and network-based applications on various operating systems.

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Known globally as Mr. Agile®, Mark Layton is an organizational strategist and PMI certification instructor with more than twenty years in the project management field. Mark is the Los Angeles chair for the Agile Leadership Network and the founder of Platinum Edge, Inc., an organizational improvement company supporting businesses in waterfall-to-agile transition. The author of Agile Project Management for Dummies, Mark is a frequent speaker on lean, XP, Scrum, and other agile solutions.

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A renowned methodologist, author, coach, entrepreneur, and executive, Dean Leffingwell founded Requisite, Inc., which was acquired by Rational Software. As a vice president at Rational (now part of IBM), Dean’s responsibilities included the Rational Unified Process. As chief methodologist at Rally Software, he worked with large enterprises to achieve the business benefits of agility by helping to define and implement the tooling and practices needed to support large-scale agile development.

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Perforce Software, Inc.

A user experience researcher and designer since 1998, Nellie LeMonier began her career at Accenture working with clients in diverse industries—from high-tech emerging e-commerce companies to replacement systems for low-tech welfare programs. Currently at Perforce Software, Nellie passionately designs user experiences that align with customers’ mental models.

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Steven “Doc” List has spent much of his thirty-five years in the software development community in leadership and coaching roles. Doc’s education in clinical and industrial/organizational psychology has contributed to his understanding of language and interaction between people. Recent roles as an agile coach and trainer have brought the importance of language and interaction into finer focus, as has his writing in his blog at stevenlist.com.

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A software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. in New York City, Tim Lister spends his time consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a coauthor with his Guild partners of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior; coauthor with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, the Jolt Award winner as General Computing Book of the Year 2003–2004; and Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, available in fourteen languages.

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Todd Little is a senior development manager for Landmark Graphics. Todd has been involved in most aspects of software development with a focus on commercial software applications for oil and gas exploration and production. He is a coauthor of the Declaration of Interdependence and a founding member and past president of the Agile Leadership Network.

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A product manager at McKinsey & Company, Bhuwan Lodha is a certified Scrum Product Owner and Pragmatic Marketing certified product manager. Bhuwan has extensive experience working with agile teams and projects of various sizes at companies like SAP and Nokia. Throughout his career, he has had the opportunity to build great teams and market winning products.

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SUTO Consulting

A partner with SUTO Consulting (sutoconsulting.com), James Lynn is passionate about delivering value to his clients by improving software development productivity and quality through enhancements to organization, process, and metrics; by transitioning work off-shore or reallocating work on-shore; and by developing business intelligence and metrics in his organization’s SaaS products to increase effectiveness for the end-user, resulting in higher customer satisfaction and improved renewal rates.

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With twenty-five years of industry experience Michael Mah teaches, writes, and consults for QSM Associates to tech companies on measuring and estimating software projects for offshore, waterfall, and agile. Michael and his QSM partners have researched thousands of projects worldwide. His work examines time-pressure dynamics of teams and their contribution to project success and failure. Michael’s clients include Boeing, Progressive, Verizon Wireless, Nationwide, JPMorgan Chase, Roche, and other Fortune 100 companies.

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Rob Maher is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP and Agile Development coach, a Lean Kanban University accredited kanban trainer, and a founding Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org. With more than fifteen years of software development experience, Rob has a history of leading change in large organizations, helping them transition to Scrum and improve their software development lifecycle using solid ALM practices.

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Sherif Mansour has eleven years of experience in software development. He is currently senior product manager for Atlassian, responsible for Confluence, a popular social collaboration tool for product teams. Sherif recently played a key role in developing one of Atlassian’s new products—Team Calendars. Previously, he served as Atlassian’s cross product integration manager, ensuring a high quality experience for customers. Sherif has worked in software development for a web consultancy firm, and for Optus, the second largest telco in Australia.

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Jeff Marr of Cisco Systems has more than twenty-five years of hardware and software development, training, coaching, and leadership experience. Jeff has been the champion of agile adoption in enterprise voice and collaboration products at Cisco, initially scaling agile to dozens—and now to thousands—of practitioners. Currently, Jeff splits his time between coaching and training in his organization and evangelizing agile and lean principles to the rest of Cisco. Jeff is a Certified ScrumMaster, Certified Scrum Professional, and Certified ISO lead auditor.

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While leading projects at Bell Laboratories (where his life as a tester began), The Whitewater Group, and Microsoft, Jim McCarthy saw that the best way to build products was by focusing on the team. He led the creation of the Visual C++ team. Much of Microsoft benefitted from Jim’s ideas as articulated in his book, Dynamics of Software Development. His approach and observations formed the basis of Microsoft Solutions Framework and were a catalyst for the extreme and agile programming movements.

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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 Cheezy 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 book, Cucumber & Cheese: A Testers Workshop.

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Micro to Mainframe (Pty) Ltd.

Marisa Müller is director of people management at Micro To Mainframe (Pty) Ltd., a well-established professional software testing services company in Johannesburg, South Africa. MtoM provides specialized testing services generally in the banking and finance sector. Marisa has spent the last six years perfecting a performance improvement process for testing teams, improving testing service delivery in corporate environments.

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Agile Institute

Rob Myers is founder of the Agile Institute and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative. With twenty-seven years of professional experience on software development teams, Rob 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.

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Integrum Technologies

Derek Neighbors is a serial entrepreneur who assists people to bring their ideas to reality. He is a partner at Integrum Technologies, a management consulting services firm, that helps companies build high performing teams and transform organizations to compete in the new economy. In 2008, Derek co-founded Gangplank (gangplankhq.com), a collaborative workspace to help encourage local creatives to explore innovative ideas and create what they are passionate about.

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An agile player-coach and founder of CodeSquads, Nate Oster helps clients adopt lean and agile methods. Nate builds high-performance teams that adapt to change, embrace a pragmatic philosophy of continuous improvement, measure progress with new features, and deliver high-quality software that delights customers. As a coach, he inspires adopters with hands-on mentoring and simulations that provide a safe learning environment for new ideas. Nate promotes testing as a serious technical discipline.

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Alan Padula is a senior software engineering process manager and agile leader at Intuit. For more than six years, Alan has led the transformation of large organizations to enterprise agile. In addition to training more than 100 internal agile coaches, he trains management on their role in agile. Alan created Intuit’s flavor of agile which integrates innovation and experimentation and drives several agile communities in the company. Prior to Intuit, he was a senior technology and business process consultant at Hewlett-Packard.

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Jeff Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a software company that builds secure software applications using agile methods. Since its inception in 2008, Coveros has become a market leader in secure agile principles and has been recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private US companies. Prior to founding Coveros, Jeff was chairman of the board, CEO, and cofounder of Cigital, Inc., a market leader in software security consulting.

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Software Quality Engineering

Dale Perry has more than thirty-six years of experience in information technology as a programmer/analyst, database administrator, project manager, development manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s project experience includes large-system development and conversions, distributed systems, and both web-based and client/server applications. A professional instructor for more than twenty years, he has presented at numerous industry conferences on development and testing.

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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.

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Paul Reed, senior associate with EBG Consulting, has led agile teams working on complex products in companies of all sizes. He excels at helping companies transition to agile by leveraging an adaptive rollout strategy.

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Linda Rising’s background includes university teaching and industry work in telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons systems. An internationally-known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, and the change process, Linda is the author of Design Patterns in Communications Software, The Pattern Almanac 2000, The Patterns Handbook, and coauthor (with Mary Lynn Manns) of Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas.

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Polarion Software
Concurrent Sessions Trends in Big Data Testing

In a career spanning some twenty years, Stefano Rizzo has been a methodology consultant, a pre-sales engineer, an IT researcher, a university professor, VP of R&D for a large consortium, Regional Sales Director for a software company, and CEO of two software development organizations. With his broad experience in the Application Lifecycle Management arena, he has been leading Product Management for Polarion Software’s product lines from its first release in 2005 until 2010.

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Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
Concurrent Sessions Exploding Management Myths

Known as the “Pragmatic Manager,”Johanna Rothman helps organizational leaders identify problems and risks in their product development and recognize potential “gotchas,” seize opportunities, and remove impediments. Johanna is the technical editor for agileconnection.com and is author of Manage Your Job Search, Hiring Geeks That Fit, Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, the 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It!

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Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than thirty years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization.

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BigVisible Solutions

Co-founder of BigVisible Solutions, George Schlitz is an experienced change agent. Initially introducing agile and lean to large companies and recognizing the benefits of change, George has shifted his passion to coaching organizations through difficult changes by applying systems thinking, agile, lean, and the theory of constraints. By bringing an awareness of complexity to leaders and teams, he believes that large-scale change is not only achievable but should be part of our every day.

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Rally Software Development

A software engineer and development manager at Rally Software, Ryan Scott scales teams, production systems, and testing infrastructure. Before working for Rally, Ryan held software engineer and technical architect roles for several large financial firms. He has software engineering experience delivering software systems ranging from enormous data warehouses to extensible JavaScript components. Ryan is passionate about keeping development teams moving fast while making the right choices.

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Planit Software Testing, Ltd.

A test consultant for Planit Software Testing, Ltd. in New Zealand, Jordan Setters has been in software testing for twelve years in both the public and commercial sectors. Jordan has worked with companies as diverse as Telecom NZ, testing their capacity to lawfully intercept communications for law enforcement agencies; Transpower NZ, helping implement a new electricity market system to manage New Zealand’s national power grid; and the Ministry of Social Development. Jordan is proud of his hands on approach to testing.

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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.

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Ancestry.com

Leading the testing effort for the API team of Ancestry.com, Seng Lin Shee educates the team and defines test strategies and direction of the testing effort. He has introduced the team to  behavior-driven design and test-driven design methodologies, and contributed to the design of the continuous delivery pipeline within the company. Seng Lin’s experience ranges from software development and testing, to router/switch manufacturing, to microprocessor architecture research.

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Ennova

Adrian Smith is an engineer who is passionate about technology and helping to increase productivity and quality using agile and lean principles. Although he is an entrepreneur at heart, Adrian has worked for organizations like Airbus, BBC, GKN, and Suncorp where he led teams developing products for the aerospace, digital media, and construction industries. Adrian's passion for creativity and innovation flows through his work and is at the core of the culture he has created at Ennova, the startup technology company he founded in 2008.

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Agile coach Ram Srinivasan is a transformation catalyst who is passionate about people, process, and product. As a coach, Ram’s primary focus is on organizational agile transformation, executive and leadership coaching, and creating high performance teams. He trains his clients on Scrum, XP, and lean kanban.

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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 new technologies and application security practices into software development projects. Most recently, Thomas has been focusing on how to incorporate DevOps best practices into distributed agile development projects using cloud-based solutions and how to achieve a balance between team productivity and cost while mitigating project risks.

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Brad Swanson is a senior agile coach and vice president at agile42. He started his software career at age ten on the Apple IIe and is now a Certified Scrum Coach with seventeen years of experience in management, project and program leadership, product management, and software development in both start-ups and large companies. Brad has led agile transformations using XP, Scrum, and kanban at many organizations across the US, Europe, and Asia. He has deep experience with agile software development, starting with eXtreme Programming (XP) in 1999.

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As the senior manager of development operations at Intuit, Nicole Sweeney is helping lead the TurboTax product on a journey from waterfall build and release mechanisms to continuous delivery. Nicole’s experience with agile began when her division decided to adopt scrum, and over time she grew a deep appreciation that agile is the best way for engineers, teams, and organizations to be truly innovative.

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eBay, Inc.

Nir Szilagyi has been with eBay for the past six years, four of them managing the products platform quality engineering team in Israel and now in the US. Nir led the transformation of the team from a classic advisory group to an agile engineering team, focused on quality throughout the product development lifecycle. Passionate about automation and finding ways to test smarter, Nir believes that agility, innovation, quick feedback, and open communication drive organizations forward.

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John Terzakis has more than twenty-five years of experience developing, writing, and testing software. With Intel for fourteen years, John is currently a staff engineer working with teams on enhancing product requirements to reduce planning and development times, minimize defects, and improve overall product quality. He is a certified Intel instructor for Requirements Engineering courses. John’s prior experience includes director and manager roles with Shiva, Racal InterLan, and Dataproducts. He was also a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs.

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DevOps Evangelist Jonathan Thorpe specializes in all things DevOps and continuous delivery at Serena Software (www.serena.com). With more than ten years of experience in high-tech, Jonathan has worked in numerous areas related to R&D and business development.

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Improve Quality Services BV

A leading international consultant, trainer, and recognized expert in software testing, Erik van Veenendaal (erikvanveenendaal.nl) is the founder of Improve Quality Services BV, a company that specializes in testing, requirements engineering, and quality management.

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At Google Anthony Voellm is focused on delivering performance, reliability, and security to the Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google Cloud SQL, and Google Cloud BigQuery while also innovating new offerings. His experience ranges from kernel and database engines to image processing and graphics. Anthony is an avid inventor who holds seven technology patents. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Anthony held multiple roles at Microsoft leading the Windows reliability, security, and privacy test teams.

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Ed Weller is the principal in Integrated Productivity Solutions, providing solutions to companies seeking to improve productivity. Ed is internationally recognized as an expert in software engineering and in particular software measurement. His focus on quality started with his work on the Apollo program with General Electric; was reinforced during his work as a hardware, test, software, and systems engineer and manager on mainframe systems at Honeywell and Groupe Bull; and continued as the process group manager on the Motorola Iridium Project.

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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, leading many commercial software development teams. He is an active PMI® member, Project Management Professional certified, and a Certified ScrumMaster.

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Netmotion Wireless, Inc.

The data architect for Netmotion Wireless, Inc., Jonathan Wiggs is an accomplished software architect with significant experience in the fields of big data, Bayesian analytics, enterprise architecture, and cloud computing. Jonathan has helped launch startup companies including Jott Networks & RGB Labs, and has led engineering and research groups at companies such as Microsoft and Nuance. He enjoys writing, speaking, sharing his experiences with his peers, and giving back to the industry he has loved for more than twenty years.

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Software Quality Engineering

Noel Wurst is a copywriter and editor for Software Quality Engineering and Techwell.com. He has more than 10 years of experience writing for a wide variety of print and online publications. From product descriptions and FAQs, to engaging interviews and curated stories, Noel loves the written word in any form. If you currently work on a software team and would like to share your experience and improve your writing, this workshop is a great opportunity to learn through practice.

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With ten years of software industry experience, Penny Wyatt works at Atlassian as the QA team lead for JIRA, an issue tracker used by more than 11,000 organizations worldwide. Penny started her career as a software developer, but after joining Microsoft in Redmond as a developer in test, she discovered that breaking software is much more enjoyable than building it. After a few years of developing testing tools, Penny realized that hiring a small test team to educate developers and prevent bugs is much more efficient than hiring a large test team to find bugs.

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Jimmy Xu has been in the IT industry for more than sixteen years with various companies including JDA Software/i2, IBM/DWL, and CGI. Jimmy has many years of experience designing, developing, and testing enterprise applications, including web and mobile apps, for government, manufacturing, financial, healthcare, and telecom clients. He has deep technical expertise in Java, Linux, Android, iOS, and other enterprise application platforms and a good mastery of various enterprise software development and testing methodologies.

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Peter Zimmerer is a principal engineer at Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, in Munich, Germany. For more than twenty years Peter has been working in the field of software testing and quality engineering. He performs consulting, coaching, and training on test management and test engineering practices in real-world projects, driving research and innovation in this area.

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Hunter Industries

An agile coach for the development team at Hunter Industries, Woody Zuill creates and supports software for internal company departments using a wide range of technologies, programming languages, and platforms. For the past thirteen years Woody has worked as an agile coach and developer in both large and small environments, training more than twenty teams and more than 100 developers in agile practices.

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