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Lyssa Adkins
Agile Coaching Institute
Lyssa Adkins
Since 2004 Lyssa Adkins has taught Scrum to hundreds of students, coached many agile teams, and served as master coach to many apprentice coaches. In both one-on-one settings and small groups, she enjoys a front-row seat as remarkable agile coaches emerge and go on to entice the very best from the teams they help. Prior to agile, Lyssa had more than fifteen years of expertise leading project teams and groups of project managers, yet nothing prepared her for the power of agile done simply and well. Lyssa authored Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition.
Afternoon Tutorial: Starting Up Great Agile Teams—or Resetting Existing Ones Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Bob Aiello
CM Crossroads
Bob Aiello
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. He is vice chair of the IEEE 828 Standards Working Group on CM Planning and a member of the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) Management Board. Contact Bob at [email protected], via Linkedin linkedin.com/in/BobAiello, or visit cmbestpractices.com.
Afternoon Tutorial: Configuration Management Best Practices Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Chuck Allison
Utah Valley University
Chuck Allison
Before becoming a professor of computer science at Utah Valley University, Chuck Allison developed software for more than twenty years. He was a contributing editor for Better Software magazine and editor of The C++ Source, an online journal. He spent most of the 1990s as an active member of the C++ Standards Committee and is author of Thinking In C++, Volume 2 (with Bruce Eckel). Chuck offers on-site training in C++, Python, and Design Patterns. Whenever he finds a little down time, Chuck plays classical guitar or bikes the country roads of central Utah. Contact him at [email protected].
Morning Tutorial: Going Back to the Well: Principles of Software Design Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM
Henrik Andersson
Jayway
Henrik Andersson
Henrik Andersson is a software test inspirer and consultant at Jayway. He loves the challenge of integrating testing into an agile team and helping testers and developers work together. Henrik is co-founder of the southern chapter of the test community, Swedish Association of Software Testing. When not speaking at conferences or in test communities, he spends his time writing articles, blog posts, and holding test courses throughout the Nordic countries. Henrik started his career as a developer, then moved to software testing. By speaking the languages of both disciplines, he narrows the gap between developers and testers.
Concurrent Class: Test Specialist on Agile Teams: A New Paradigm for Testers Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:45 PM
Sanjiv Augustine
LitheSpeed, LLC
Sanjiv Augustine
For more than ten years Sanjiv Augustine, president of LitheSpeed and an industry-leading agile expert, has assisted leading companies adopt agile methods. He is the author of several publications including The Lean-Agile PMO and Managing Agile Projects. Sanjiv is founder of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management group, co-founder of the Agile Project Leadership Network, and member of the Project Management Institute Agile Community of Practice. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed agile projects 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 Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:30 AM Concurrent Class: The Agile PMO: From Process Police to Adaptive Governance Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:00 PM
Arlen Bankston
LitheSpeed
Arlen Bankston
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, November 06, 2011 8:30 AM Morning Tutorial: A Visual Management System for Enterprise Agile Projects Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Scott Barber
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Scott Barber
Scott Barber is the chief technologist of PerfTestPlus, executive director of the Association for Software Testing, co-founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability, and co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications. A recognized expert in performance testing software systems, he combines experience, science, and wit to teach a heuristic approach to testing performance to every member of the project team. Scott is an international keynote speaker and author of more than 100 published works related to software testing.
Full-Day Bonus Session: The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST) New for 2011! Friday, November 11, 2011 8:30 AM
Arlo Belshee
Microsoft
Arlo Belshee
Arlo Belshee does a little bit of everything—but what he really does is inspire courage to make things better. Although Arlo has been involved in agile development since 1999, he worked for two years in a rigorous, and pro-people waterfall development shop. Arlo is a strong believer in discipline, agility, punctuated continuity, and change as the only constant in software development. Arlo has gone back and forth several times between management and in-the-trenches development on technically sophisticated products. He challenges every assumption he can find and helps people learn to change continuously. Don’t do anything Arlo says, but learn why he says it and come up with something better.
Afternoon Tutorial: Make the Most of Refactoring to Improve Your Design Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Jennifer Bonine
Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
Jennifer Bonine
Jennifer Bonine serves as the managing 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.
Afternoon Tutorial: What’s Your Leadership IQ? Monday, November 07, 2011 1:00 PM Morning Tutorial: Understanding and Managing Change Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Jennifer Brownson
BMC Software
Jennifer Brownson
Jennifer Brownson, enterprise business analyst and architect at BMC Software, has more than fifteen years of experience applying agile techniques to various disciplines in the technology development lifecycle. Jennifer has first-hand experience as a human-computer interaction specialist, QA tester, Java developer, business analyst, ScrumMaster, and Scrum coach for Fortune 500 companies. A Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Business Analysis Practitioner, she is an active member of the IIBA Agile Extension to the BABOK and the Agile Leadership Network of Houston. Jennifer is known for her focus on pragmatic agile practices and mentoring non-developers through the transition to agile.
Workshop: Building Your Business Analysis and Requirements Playbook Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: My Real-world Journey to an Agile Enterprise Monday, November 07, 2011 10:00 AM Workshop: Finding Your Fit: Business Analysis in An Agile World Monday, November 07, 2011 2:20 PM Workshop: Look Back to Move Ahead Monday, November 07, 2011 4:00 PM Workshop: BA Workshop Fishbowl Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: User Stories and Use Cases: Can't We All Just Get Along? Tuesday, November 08, 2011 10:00 AM Workshop: Acting on your Playbook: Workshop Wrap-up Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:00 PM
Sean Buck
The Capital Group Companies, Inc.
Sean Buck
A senior manager at The Capital Group Companies, Sean Buck leads a team of specialists and agile coaches who are helping their large IT organization adopt agile software development methods. The transformation program has applied agile principles and practices to plan and execute the adoption program itself. Sean’s experiences in the United States Marine Corps have made him passionate about leadership, and he finds similarities between USMC leadership and agile leadership. USMC teams are self-organizing, co-located, and high performing with strong leadership and the need to sense and respond to rapidly changing conditions. During his sixteen year career in IT and application development, Sean has applied this leadership style to many successful teams.
Concurrent Class: Zero to Agile in Three+ Years: It's a Marathon Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:45 PM
Adrian Cho
IBM
Adrian Cho
With twenty-three years in consulting, research and development, finance, and intellectual property, Adrian Cho helps teams deliver innovative solutions on time. As the development manager for IBM’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management project, he manages the global development of multiple products. As a jazz musician, bandleader, and conductor, he has been described by press as “a cool guide to hot jazz” and “a musical missionary.” His book, The Jazz Process: Collaboration, Innovation and Agility, has been endorsed by a diverse collection of thought leaders while reviewers have praised the book as “a deep exploration of collaborative know-how” and “a concept of leadership and teamwork that’s well suited for the Google-age workplace.”
Keynote: The Agile Mindset: Principles for Collaborating and Innovating with Agility Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:30 AM
Chris Duro
Cognizant
Chris Duro
Chris Duro is a principal consultant and agile testing coach with more than fifteen years of experience in process improvement, quality assurance, and business process reengineering. Chris and his team work as requirements and test architects, helping complex projects become more agile through improved requirements, automation, and test environments. He is an expert in SQA process, knowledge management, and full lifecycle quality. His previous experience includes management consultant on Wall Street with BusinessEdge (now EMC) and agile testing coaching with Valtech. Industry experience includes banking, insurance, health care, life sciences, utilities, media communications, and education. Chris authored the forthcoming book Agile for the Waterfall: Full Life Cycle Quality on Complex Projects.
Concurrent Class: Agile Requirements Readiness … and the Role of Testers Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:00 PM
Dale Emery
DHE
Dale Emery
For thirty years Dale Emery has worked in the software industry as a developer, manager, process steward, trainer, and consultant in both IT organizations and software product development companies. He helps people apply the agile values of communication, feedback, simplicity, courage, and respect to all areas of software development. Dale's combination of deep technical expertise and extensive organizational development experience makes him particularly effective in working with software teams. In 2007 he received the Ward Cunningham Gentle Voice of Reason Award, which the Agile Alliance created to recognize Dale's unique contributions to the agile community.
Afternoon Tutorial: Resistance as a Resource Monday, November 07, 2011 1:00 PM
Llewellyn Falco
DevelopMentor
Llewellyn Falco
An instructor for DevelopMentor, Llewellyn Falco is the creator of the open source testing tool, ApprovalTests, and Java Lambdas (approvaltests.com). Llewellyn splits his career between creating new programs and helping clients to modernize their existing legacy systems—and finds joy in both. He volunteers creating courseware and teaching kids to program (teachingkidsprogramming.org) and on the SmartCare medical records project in Lusaka, Zambia. Llewellyn spends most of his time programming in Java and C#. Find his blog at llewellynfalco.blogspot.com.
Concurrent Class: Test-driven Development: It’s All about Fluency Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM
Kevin Fisher
Nationwide Insurance
Kevin Fisher
Kevin Fisher, Associate Vice President at Nationwide Insurance, shares how the certified successes within their IT development team have revealed important new challenges to solve up and down the value chain, and how these challenges are much harder to tackle because they involve departments well outside of IT.
Summit: Don't Bask in Your Agile Successes: There Are Bigger Problems to Solve Friday, November 11, 2011 1:30 PM
Cory Foy
Net Objectives
Cory Foy
Cory Foy is a Senior Consultant and Coach with Net Objectives focusing on Enterprise Lean-Agile Transitions for Fortune 100 companies. Cory has extensive experience in both technology and process management. He's also very active with community efforts, hosting various community events (including User Groups and Day of Ruby), mentoring local startups, and speaking at conferences around the globe. Cory's website is at www.coryfoy.com and he can be contacted at [email protected].
Morning Tutorial: Scaling Agile with the Lessons of Lean Product Development Flow Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Afternoon Tutorial: Design Patterns Explained: From Analysis through Implementation Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Conrad Fujimoto
Intellectica Inc.
Conrad Fujimoto
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, November 06, 2011 8:30 AM
Bob Galen
iContact
Bob Galen
Bob Galen is the director of R&D at iContact and president of RGCG, LLC., a North Carolina-based firm specializing in strategy development, coaching, and training teams making the shift to Scrum and other agile practices. 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 ScrumMaster 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. You can reach Bob at [email protected] or rgalen.com.
Morning Tutorial: Dynamics of the Agile Center of Excellence Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Morning Tutorial: Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Teams Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Afternoon Tutorial: A Test Leader’s Guide to Agile Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Julie Gardiner
Sage
Julie Gardiner
In the IT industry for nearly twenty years, Julie Gardiner has worked 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. At UK-based Grove Consultants, Julie, a certified ScrumMaster, provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She won best presentation at STAREAST; best presentation at BCS SIGiST; and best tutorial at EuroSTAR. Julie has been a keynote speaker at STARWEST, Innovate Test Management, and STANZ.
Morning Tutorial: Test Management: Being Relevant and Making a Difference Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Morning Tutorial: Usability Testing in a Nutshell Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Hillel Glazer
Entinex
Hillel Glazer
Hillel Glazer is the world's leading authority on introducing lean and agile concepts into the regulated world. Specifically, he's the “AgileCMMI guy” (agilecmmi.com), the SEI's go-to authority on agile, co-author of their only paper on the topic, and contributor of the agile content in the new CMMI v1.3. Hillel has helped companies of all sizes and locations successfully blend agile with CMMI to achieve performance benefits, not just artifacts and ratings. His upcoming book, High Performance Operations: Turning Compliance into Competitive Advantage, lays out exactly how he does it. Entinex, Hillel’s Baltimore-based company, has a global reach that focuses on generating powerful results for high performance organizations motivated to be lean, agile, and achieve world-class levels of operational excellence.
Morning Tutorial: CMMI® Crash Course Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Afternoon Tutorial: Agile CMMI®: Yes, You Can Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Ellen Gottesdiener
EBG Consulting
Ellen Gottesdiener
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: Building Your Business Analysis and Requirements Playbook Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: Do the Right Things: Adapting Your Requirements Practices Monday, November 07, 2011 10:00 AM Workshop: Requirements by Collaboration: A Workshop Approach to Defining Needs Monday, November 07, 2011 2:20 PM Workshop: Look Back to Move Ahead Monday, November 07, 2011 4:00 PM Workshop: Agile Requirements: Structured Conversations to Deliver Value Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:30 AM Workshop: BA Workshop Fishbowl Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: Strategically Speaking: Why Are We Doing This? Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:20 PM Workshop: Acting on your Playbook: Workshop Wrap-up Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:00 PM Keynote: Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:15 AM
Dorothy Graham
Software Test Consultant
Dorothy Graham
In testing for more than thirty years, Dorothy Graham is co-author of Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, and Foundations of Software Testing. She was a founding member of the ISEB Software Testing Board and a member of the working party that developed the ISTQB Foundation Syllabus. A popular and entertaining speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide, Dorothy was the program chair for EuroSTAR Conferences in 1993 and 2009, and holds the European Excellence Award in Software Testing. She has been speaking at STAR conferences since 1992. Now semi-retired, Dorothy has more time to spend on her main hobby—choral singing. Her new book Experiences of Test Automation (with Mark Fewster) is due to be published late 2011.
Full-Day Tutorial: Managing Successful Test Automation Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Payson Hall
Catalysis Group, Inc.
Payson Hall
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.
Full-Day Tutorial: Project Assessments: Knowing Where You Stand Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Full-Day Tutorial: Consultants’ Skills You Can Use Today Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Donald (Mark) Haynes
Modis Consulting
Donald (Mark) Haynes
Currently a test manager for a retail banking application, Mark Haynes is a software engineering specialist with more than twenty-five years of experience implementing software solutions. Mark has in-depth expertise in quality assurance, software development, project management, development methodologies, metrics, and software estimating. He has led development and QA teams both locally, remotely, and offshore on web, client server, and mainframe platforms. Mark has worked in the insurance, banking, financial, telecommunications, and automotive industries, and has performed roles of development, infrastructure support, audit, training, and process improvement. Mark has been a speaker for numerous industry-related groups and conferences.
Afternoon Tutorial: Evaluating the Quality of Requirements Monday, November 07, 2011 1:00 PM
Jez Humble
ThoughtWorks
Jez Humble
A principal consultant with ThoughtWorks Studios and author of Continuous Delivery, Jez Humble got into IT in 2000—just in time for the dotcom bust. Since then, Jez has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, and manager with a variety of platforms and technologies in many domains. Since 2004, he has worked for ThoughtWorks in Beijing, Bangalore, London, and San Francisco. Jez focuses on helping organizations deliver valuable, high-quality software frequently and reliably by implementing effective engineering practices in the field of agile delivery. He serves as product manager for Go, ThoughtWorks Studios’ agile release management platform. Find out more at continuousdelivery.com.
Full-Day Tutorial: Continuous Delivery: Rapid, Reliable Releases Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Keynote: Enterprise DevOps: Breaking Down the Barriers between Development and IT Operations Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:15 AM
David Hussman
DevJam
David Hussman
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, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Afternoon Tutorial: Agile Project Design: Building Strong Backlogs Monday, November 07, 2011 1:00 PM Afternoon Tutorial: Agile Estimation and Planning: Scrum, Kanban, and Beyond Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM Concurrent Class: Designing Agility that Lasts Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:30 PM
Griffin Jones
iCardiac Technologies
Griffin Jones
Griffin Jones is the Director of Quality and Regulatory Compliance at iCardiac Technologies and Qmetrics Technologies. Each develops internal software tools to provide core lab services for the pharmaceutical industry to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy or safety of their potential new drugs. Griffin is responsible for all matters relating to quality and regulatory compliance for an FDA, GCP, 21 CFR Part 11 regulatory compliant quality system, including frequently presenting the verification and validation (testing) results to external regulatory auditors. Griffin was previously a product quality lead for eighteen years at Eastman Kodak. He is currently the principle consultant with Congruent Compliance and can be reached at [email protected].
Concurrent Class: Surviving an FDA Audit: Heuristics for Exploratory Testing Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:30 PM
Max Keeler
The Motley Fool
Max Keeler
Max Keeler, VP of Project Management at The Motley Fool, discusses how ROI can be taken too far, the pitfalls that can naturally occur in Scrum, and how focusing too much on process can take your team’s eyes off the larger ball of delivering value.
Summit: Moving Past ROI to Real and Lasting Value Friday, November 11, 2011 9:45 AM
Mik Kersten
Tasktop Technologies
Mik Kersten
Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project, and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface while earning his PhD in computer science. Mik is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. His leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences. Mik enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow him on Twitter @mik_kersten.
Concurrent Class: Ten Great Practices Learned from Open Source Projects Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:30 PM
Debra Lavell
Independent
Debra Lavell
Debra Lavell has more fifteen years experience in various disciplines: requirements engineering, organizational learning, retrospectives, lifecycle management, and user experience. Debra’s primary job responsibility is to engage with product development teams to bring best practices into Intel’s product development. Prior to her work in quality, she spent more than five years managing an IT department responsible for a 500+ node network for ADC Telecommunications. A member of the Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Steering Committee, Debra has held various positions for the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Workshop: Delivering Great User Experience: Connecting Strategies and Stories Monday, November 07, 2011 12:30 AM Workshop: Building Your Business Analysis and Requirements Playbook Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: Look Back to Move Ahead Monday, November 07, 2011 4:00 PM Workshop: Clear, Concise, and Measurable Requirements: Planguage to the Rescue Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:30 AM Workshop: BA Workshop Fishbowl Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: Organizational Knowledge Sharing: A Success Pattern Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:20 PM Workshop: Acting on your Playbook: Workshop Wrap-up Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:00 PM
Michael Mah
QSM Associates
Michael Mah
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, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM
Antony Marcano
RiverGlide
Antony Marcano
Antony Marcano is an international consultant with more than eleven years of experience in agile methods. Antony regularly lectures on agile methods for Oxford University’s postgraduate degree course and has extensive experience in company-wide agile transformations, agile coaching, behavior-driven development and test-driven development. Along with Andy Palmer, Antony is co-creator of PairWith.Us, a series of screencasts which demonstrate—using unedited, unrehearsed footage—how pair programming can be used successfully. He is a cofounder of RiverGlide and contributor to such books as Agile Coaching, Agile Testing, and Bridging the Communication Gap. Antony can be reached at [email protected].
Full-Day Tutorial: Sustainable Acceptance Test-driven Development with Cucumber Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Kent McDonald
Knowledge Bridge Partners
Kent McDonald
Business advisor with Knowledge Bridge Partners, Kent McDonald helps organizations discover and implement solutions through business analysis consulting, mentoring, and training. Kent’s more than fifteen years of experience include work in business analysis, strategic planning, project management, and product development in a variety of industries including financial services, health insurance, performance marketing, human services, nonprofits, and automotive. He is co-author of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility, writes a column for ProjectConnections.com, and blogs at BeyondReqs.com. Kent currently delivers business analysis training for B2T Training, and agile, lean and collaborative leadership coaching and training for Accelinnova.
Workshop: Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Analysis Monday, November 07, 2011 12:30 AM Workshop: Building Your Business Analysis and Requirements Playbook Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: Look Back to Move Ahead Monday, November 07, 2011 4:00 PM Workshop: BA Workshop Fishbowl Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM Workshop: Requirements Modeling Tuesday, November 08, 2011 10:00 AM Workshop: Acting on your Playbook: Workshop Wrap-up Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:00 PM
Mario Moreira
CA Technologies
Mario Moreira
An agile and configuration management (CM) specialist, Mario Moreira is an agile coach, speaker, and writer. Working actively with ScrumMasters, teams, Product Owners, and management, he has implemented agile—Scrum, XP, agile release planning, continuous integration, etc.—on small to large distributed teams. Mario authored Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams that covers agile and CM fundamentals, how to adapt CM practices for agile teams, and how to evaluate agile tools. Mario also authored Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap which includes guidance for implementing CM on a product. A writer for the Agile Journal and CM Journal, Mario blogs at cmforagile.blogspot.com.
Concurrent Class: Mind the Gap: Project Governance vs. Agile Flexibility Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:45 PM
Rob Myers
The Agile Institute
Rob Myers
Rob Myers is founder of Agile Institute (www.agileinstitute.com) and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative (www.AgileCooperative.com). He 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, November 07, 2011 1:00 PM
Jeff Norris
NASA
Jeff Norris
At the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Jeff Norris manages the Planning and Execution Systems Section, which is responsible for the software and mission control personnel that command many of NASA’s robotic spacecraft including the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, the Cassini Saturn Orbiter, and other missions to destinations throughout the solar system. A driving force behind the use of open source software at NASA, Jeff pioneered an innovative approach to software development that emphasizes teamwork and innovation. Before joining NASA, Jeff researched computer vision technologies at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and next-generation railroad control interfaces at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Keynote: Mission Critical Agility Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:45 AM
Andy Palmer
RiverGlide
Andy Palmer
Andy Palmer is an international consultant with eight years of experience in agile methods across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, investment banking, retail, and media. Andy has lectured on agile methods for Oxford University’s postgraduate degree course and has extensive experience in company-wide agile transformations, agile coaching, process reengineering, and software development. Along with Antony Marcano, Andy is co-creator of PairWith.Us. A cofounder of RiverGlide, he can be reached at [email protected].
Full-Day Tutorial: Sustainable Acceptance Test-driven Development with Cucumber Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Russell Pannone
We Be Agile
Russell Pannone
Russell Pannone is the founder of We Be Agile and the Agile Lean Phoenix User Group as well as the agile-lean enterprise adoption lead and coach at US Airways. With almost thirty years of system software development and delivery experience, Russell's focus is on working side by side with folks on real projects to help them deliver valuable software to production early and often. He gives those with whom he collaborates the best opportunity to beat the competition to market, realize revenue, and discover insights that can foster improvement. Currently, Russell is co-authoring Agile-Lean Product Development Quick Reference: Pragmatic Answers to Your Everyday Questions.
Concurrent Class: Development Productivity: The Science behind Motivation Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:30 PM
Jeff Patton
Jeff Patton & Associates
Jeff Patton
To help organizations improve the way they work, Jeff Patton uses his fifteen years of experience with a wide variety of products from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff balances the concerns for delivery speed and efficiency with the need for building products that deliver exceptional value and marketplace success. He works as an agile process coach, product design process coach, and instructor. Jeff’s articles, essays, and presentations can be found at AgileProductDesign.com. His writings appear in StickyMinds.com, Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, Alistair Cockburn’s book Crystal Clear, and his forthcoming book User Story Mapping. 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, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM
Bob Payne
LitheSpeed
Bob Payne
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 sixty podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and agile practitioners. Cofounder 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, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Jeffery Payne
Coveros, Inc.
Jeffery Payne
Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., a consulting company that uses agile methods to accelerate the delivery of secure, reliable software. Prior to Coveros, Jeff was co-founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of Cigital, Inc., a market leader in application security and software quality solutions. A recognized software expert, he speaks to companies nationwide about the business risks of software failure. Jeff has been a keynote and featured speaker at CIO and business technology conferences and testifies before Congress on issues of national importance, including intellectual property rights, cyberterrorism, and software quality.
Full-Day Bonus Session: Making Agile Work: An Introduction to Agile Development Practices Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:30 AM Multi-Day Training Class: Fundamentals of Agile Certification Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM Concurrent Class: Using Agile Principles to Run Your Organization Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:45 PM
Tom Perry
Visa, Inc.
Tom Perry
With more than twenty years in software development, Tom Perry has worked on teams at startup companies, large corporations in the Fortune 100, and the State and Federal government. His background includes testing, development, project/program management, agile coaching/mentoring, and training. As part of Tom’s involvement in the greater agile community, he led the Seattle Eastside chapter of the APLN. Check out Tom’s blog for more information about his writing, presentations, and current projects at agiletools.wordpress.com or follow him on twitter @tlperry.
Concurrent Class: Kata: Discover the Art of Practice to Become a Better Leader Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM
Pollyanna Pixton
Accelinnova
Pollyanna Pixton
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, November 07, 2011 1:00 PM Morning Tutorial: Collaborating with Non-Collaborators Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Dustin Potts
Nationwide Insurance
Dustin Potts
As a director of IT applications at Nationwide Insurance’s Application Development Center, Dustin Potts has directed the transformation of waterfall-based software development teams to CMMI® compliant, lean, agile, high-performing teams. He has more than six years of experience leading successful agile transformations and teams at the enterprise level with more than twenty years of experience in the IT industry. He is a frequent speaker at agile conferences and has trained many on agile techniques of Scrum and XP.
Concurrent Class: Lean Framework, Agile Principles, and CMMI® Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:30 PM
Ken Pugh
Net Objectives
Ken Pugh
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 Class: INVEST: Agile Requirements that Tell a Story Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:45 PM Concurrent Class: Dealing with Stories: Sizing, Tracking, and Defining “Done” Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:30 PM
Dan Rawsthorne
CollabNet
Dan Rawsthorne
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 Class: Patterns of “Big” Scrum Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM
Pat Reed
Gap, Inc.
Pat Reed
Pat Reed, Senior Director of Delivery Management Services at Gap, Inc., challenges the traditional paradigm of trading off scope, schedule, and cost, and offers a new model of sustainable and optimal flow of values from software development.
Summit: Beyond Scope, Schedule, and Cost: Optimizing Value Friday, November 11, 2011 8:30 AM
Jared Richardson
RoleModel Software
Jared Richardson
Jared Richardson is a Principle Consultant and a member of the core team at RoleModel Software where he works alongside Ken Auer and the other software craftsmen who use Agile techniques to build excellent custom software for their clients. Jared sold his first software program in 1991 and has been immersed in software ever since. He has made a career out of helping teams find and fix their process blind spots. Jared has authored and coauthored a number of books, including the best selling Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects and Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life. He is a frequent speaker at software conferences and a thought leader in the Agile space. Jared lives with his wife and children in North Carolina where he recently, quite by accident, became a backyard chicken farmer. Find Jared on the web at AgileArtisans.com.
Concurrent Class: Continuous Integration: Sign of a Great Shop Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:45 PM
Tamara Sulaiman Runyon
CollabNet
Tamara Sulaiman Runyon
Since 2003 Tamara Sulaiman Runyon has been helping teams and organizations transition to agile methods as a hands-on ScrumMaster, Agile Coach, and Scrum trainer. She has worked with teams in geographically distributed environments and brings her extensive international experience into her mentoring and coaching. Tamara focuses on coaching teams and organizations to effectively provide value to key stakeholders and customers through the frequent delivery of software. Her passion lies in helping organizations plan and implement agile transitions. Tamara is the co-originator of the AgileEVM materials and processes that integrate the traditional project management practice of Earned Value Management with the Scrum framework. She currently serves on the Agile Alliance board of directors.
Concurrent Class: Focus on Value First: An Agile Transformation Competency Framework Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM
Rolf Russell
ThoughtWorks
Rolf Russell
Rolf Russell is lead of the DevOps and Continuous Delivery practice at ThoughtWorks. Through the years Rolf has helped various IT organizations become nimble and reactive in meeting their customers' needs through pragmatic improvements to their build and release processes, structure, and technologies. He developed his passion for this in the traditional way—through painful experience as poorly managed “paths to production” endangered projects he was delivering. Rolf’s experiences come from working with Fortune 1000 companies across an array of industries, including financial services, telecommunications, energy, and media.
Full-Day Tutorial: Continuous Delivery: Rapid, Reliable Releases Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Rob Sabourin
AmiBug.com
Rob Sabourin
Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than twenty-five 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. Rob wrote I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children’s book; works as an adjunct professor of software engineering at McGill University; and serves as the principle consultant (and president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc. Contact Rob at [email protected].
Multi-Day Training Class: Agile Testing Practices Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:30 AM Concurrent Class: User Stories from MONOPOLY: Complex Rules, Random Events, and Twisted Exceptions Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:30 PM
George Schlitz
BigVisible Solutions
George Schlitz
Co-founder and a principal agile coach at BigVisible Solutions (bigvisible.com), George Schlitz has extensive experience consulting for large organizations across many different industries. George focuses on systems thinking and organizational change, working closely with teams to improve their product development methods and leadership skills. In addition to his professional experience, he also spent twelve years in the U.S. Army as a soldier and officer. George is a Certified Scrum Coach and a certified Project Management Professional; a founding member of the Project Management Institute's Agile steering committee; and participant in the Agile Project Leadership Network, Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, and other groups.
Concurrent Class: Zero to Agile in Three+ Years: It's a Marathon Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:45 PM
Chris Shinkle
Software Engineering Professionals
Chris Shinkle
Chris Shinkle is a thought leader and development manager at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), which builds systems for regulated, safety-critical, and high-cost-of-failure environments. Chris has adapted process models to domains including aerospace, defense, medical, consumer electronics, and automotive. He introduced and led SEP’s agile adoption as well as the adoption of lean and Kanban. Chris has used these methods to lead large, complex projects, including military aircraft engine monitoring/maintenance systems and an FDA-regulated remote patient monitoring system. He continues to leverage lean and Kanban techniques in the projects he leads, the training of SEP engineers, and the coaching of clients building software applications.
Morning Tutorial: From Zero to Hero: Getting Started with Kanban Monday, November 07, 2011 8:30 AM
Ahmed Sidky
Santeon
Ahmed Sidky
In addition to being co-author of a top rated agile adoption book, Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World, Ahmed Sidky is the executive VP at Santeon Group responsible for software delivery and agile services. He has gained popularity and respect in the agile community as a proponent of a pragmatic approach for organizations attempting to adopt agile. Ahmed is often called Dr. Agile because of his free online agile readiness assessment tool, Doctor Agile. A frequent speaker at national and international agile conferences, Ahmed helps guide both small and large organizations during their transition to agile software development, and enjoys coaching and educating agile teams worldwide. You can reach Ahmed at [email protected].
Afternoon Tutorial: Agile CMMI®: Yes, You Can Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Rajeev Singh
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Rajeev Singh
A self-described “Unruly Agilist,” Rajeev Singh challenges agile’s orthodoxy and dogma. At ThoughtWorks since 2004, he focuses on agile and lean practices to enhance business effectiveness. Rajeev coaches and trains clients for agile transitions and software delivery, using a mix of business analysis, project delivery management, and strategy skills for his clients—from small start-ups to large, regulated, complex and legacy-bound corporations. He is passionate about setting up teams and consulting engagements that accelerate change in IT, improving effectiveness of large and distributed teams, and increasing the penetration and adoption of new methodologies. Rajeev blogs his opinions about agile at AgileMontage.com.
Concurrent Class: Agile Pathologies: People Problems in Agile Shops Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:30 PM
Michael Spayd
Agile Coaching Institute
Michael Spayd
Michael Spayd helps clients change, facilitating dramatic improvement in results and satisfaction through cutting edge coaching and organization development technologies. An organizational change coach and consultant for twenty years, Michael has worked with Fortune® 500, small businesses, and non-profits. For the past ten years, he has specialized in agile and lean teams and associated enterprise transformation efforts, working with more than fifty teams. Michael is trained as a Team and Organizational Coach, has training in Co-Active leadership, executive coaching, and organizational behavior. He is a Certified Organization and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSCC), Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
Afternoon Tutorial: Starting Up Great Agile Teams—or Resetting Existing Ones Tuesday, November 08, 2011 1:00 PM
Fadi Stephan
Excella Consulting
Fadi Stephan
A consultant with Washington DC-based Excella Consulting, Fadi Stephan has more than twelve years of professional experience as a product manager, project manager, software developer, and consultant at businesses ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Since 2006, his focus has been on agile adoption and on transitioning, coaching, and mentoring teams in agile practices. Fadi is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), founder of the DC Software Craftsmanship user group, a blogger at agilejourneyman.com, and a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences.
Concurrent Class: Software Craftsmanship: It’s an Imperative Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:45 PM
Season Tanner
State Farm Insurance Companies
Season Tanner
An experienced Agile Coach and ScrumMaster at State Farm Insurance Companies, Season Tanner, CSP, has more than eleven years of experience with large and complex software development projects. Having coached projects in the adoption of agile practices for the past five years, including both Scrum and Kanban, she has specialized in helping teams reach high performance, helping areas scale agile planning practices, and helping the organization deliver with speed and quality. In addition to her coaching and ScrumMaster experience, Season has published short stories and poetry in literary journals and enjoys horse training.
Concurrent Class: Scrum vs. Kanban: It’s Not Necessarily All of One or the Other Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:45 PM
Ken Whitaker
Leading Software Maniacs, LLC
Ken Whitaker
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 commercial software teams at Software Publishing (remember Harvard Graphics?), Data General, embedded systems software companies, and enterprise software suppliers. 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.

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Full-Day Tutorial: Deliver Projects on Time, Every Time Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:30 AM
Tony Young
Integrated Research
Tony Young
Tony Young has seventeen years of software development experience with the past fifteen years at Integrated Research working his way up from trainee. During that time he has worked on OS/2, HP NonStop, Windows, and most Unix flavors, with exposure to some VoIP vendors such as Cisco and Avaya. He became a team lead when working on the Unix port of Integrated Research's product architecture and has maintained a leadership role for more than ten years, in an architect role for the last eight. Tony has been learning agile practices for two years, and been active in its adoption and improvement in a department of fifty developers across eight teams—on a fifteen-year-old architecture.
Concurrent Class: Agile Development on Large Legacy Architecture Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:00 PM
Gil Zilberfeld
Typemock
Gil Zilberfeld
Gil Zilberfeld is Typemock's product manager, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He has been in software since childhood, starting out with Logo turtles (remember those robots?). With more than fifteen years of experience in software development, Gil has performed a number of roles—from coding to team management and implementation of processes. He speaks, blogs, and writes about unit testing, and encourages developers at all experience levels to implement unit testing as a core practice in their projects. Gil writes a personal blog (gilzilberfeld.com) and contributes to the Typemock blog (http://typemock.com/blog/). Contact him at [email protected] or @gil_zilberfeld.
Concurrent Class: Eight Principles for Better Unit Testing Wednesday, November 09, 2011 4:00 PM


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