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Specializing in static analysis, Paul Anderson is VP of Engineering at GrammaTech, a spin-off from Cornell University. Paul manages GrammaTech's engineering team and leads the development of the company's static analysis tools. He has helped a wide variety of organizations—including NASA, the FDA, the FAA, MITRE, Draper Laboratory, GE, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing—apply automated code analysis to critical projects. Paul has worked in the software industry for eighteen years, with most of his experience focused on developing static-analysis, automated-testing, and program-transformation tools. |
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Concurrent Session - Getting Started with Static Analysis Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:15 a.m. |
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Melanie Bristol is the Director, IT Quality Assurance at Quest Diagnostics, Inc., one of the nation’s largest clinical laboratory companies, where she has been the agile champion for the past three years. She started her professional career as a clinical microbiologist but switched to IT in the mid-1980s. Melanie’s experience in IT includes BA, programmer, project manager, production support manager, QC manager, and SQA manager. In 2004, she found herself leading a traditional Software Quality Assurance shop positioning the company for CMMI Level 2, when her CIO suggested looking at agile practices. Melanie’s life has not been the same since! She is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and a Six Sigma GreenBelt. |
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Summit Presentation - Turning the Battleship and Steering the Course: An Agile Leadership Story Friday, June 12, 2009 2:45 p.m.
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Borland Software Corporation
The director of product marketing for Borland’s TeamAnalytics product, Nicole Bryan has more than fourteen years of experience in software and product development. Most recently, she worked for the New York Stock Exchange Regulatory Division where she managed some of the first agile project teams at the NYSE and was responsible for regulatory technology strategy and business process management. In this role, much of her time was spent spearheading data analytics, data mining, and data visualization initiatives to improve the Division’s ability to detect illegal trading activity. Nicole can be contacted at [email protected]. |
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Concurrent Session - Creating a "Digital Cockpit" for Software Delivery Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:45 p.m. |
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Schlumberger Information Solutions
The Commercialization and Quality Manager for the Norwegian Technology Center of Schlumberger Information Solutions, Jason Bryant is responsible for the commercial delivery of market-leading 3D visualization and reservoir modeling software for the oil and gas industry. Jason has held positions of product developer, QA manager, project manager, and designer of custom software including implementation and support. For the past twelve years, he has been involved in creating and managing software in domains including petroleum economics and production engineering. As a professional engineer from Newfoundland, Canada, Jason is interested in software of all types including climate modeling and marine navigation. He is currently based in Oslo, Norway. |
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Concurrent Session - A Solid Foundation for Quality Improvement Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:45 p.m. |
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PushToTest
Frank Cohen is the leading authority on testing and optimizing software developed with Web, SOA, AJAX, and REST designs and implementations. Founder and CEO of PushToTest, Frank is the inventor of TestMaker, the open-source test automation tool. He is the author of several books on optimizing information systems and is an experienced instructor in areas relating to testing Web applications, SOA, REST, and AJAX. Frank has been a featured speaker at many conferences and has been a guest of SYS-CON.TV.
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Morning Tutorial - Open Source Develop and Test Tools Workshop Monday, June 8, 2009 8:30 a.m. |
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KWC Technologies
Ken Collier, president of KWC Technologies, specializes in agile enablement and adoption, focusing on agile project management, technical software practices, and agile data warehousing. Ken is a member of Cutter Consortium’s Agile Development and Business Intelligence practices and is an author and senior consultant. With more than twenty years of experience in advanced computing, Ken is a practitioner, trainer, and coach for agile adopters. He has been a technical team leader and has taught numerous agile workshops. Ken holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering, specializing in software engineering, database theory, and machine learning. |
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Software Quality Engineering
Lee Copeland has more than thirty-five years of experience as a consultant, instructor, author, and information systems professional. He has held a number of technical and managerial positions with commercial and non-profit organizations in the areas of applications development, software testing, and software development process improvement. Lee frequently speaks at software conferences both in the US and internationally and currently serves as Program Chair for the Better Software Conference & EXPO, the STAR testing conferences, and Software Quality Engineering’s Agile Development Practices conference. Lee is the author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, a compendium of the most effective methods of test case design.
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VersionOne
Mike Cottmeyer is a product consultant and agile evangelist for VersionOne. Prior to joining VersionOne, Mike was a senior project manager for CheckFree Corporation where he managed a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. He has a background in traditional project management but has worked primarily with agile methodologies for the past four years. A certified PMP Project Manager and a Certified ScrumMaster, Mike co-created the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification and holds Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner level certificates. He was recently named an honorary member of the DSDM consortium.
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Davis Systems
Noopur Davis is a principal of Davis Systems, a firm that provides software process management, consulting, and training services. She is also a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute where she works on the Team Software Process (TSP) initiative. Noopur has been involved in the software field for more than twenty-five years as a developer, manager of multi-national distributed software teams, and consultant. Prior to Davis Systems, she was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at the SEI, Director of Engineering at Intergraph Corporation, and Senior Systems Analyst at Chrysler Corporation. She is an SEI-Authorized TSP coach and PSP instructor and also a Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Practitioner, and Scrum Product Owner.
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Microsoft
Ibrahim K. El Far is a senior software engineer in the Search and Ad Platform Group of Microsoft, where he works on testing search services and simplifying service monitoring and manageability. Previously, Ibrahim was the technical lead of the WinFS test team in Microsoft’s SQL division, where he worked on the file system, data synchronization, and third-party software certification. Ibrahim pursued graduate studies in computer sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, where he researched and developed software testing methods and tools focusing on building state models and grammar-based data generation. His interests are test automation and tools, visual models of complex service systems, improving the experience of service operators, and software testing education.
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Independent Consultant
Jeffrey Fredrick has spent more than fifteen years in software with roles including VP of Engineering and VP of Product Management. An agile practitioner for more than a decade, he delivers training and hands-on mentoring around the world, drawing on his wide-ranging experience to help teams and individuals on both sides of the business/technical divide. Jeffrey is an active member of the agile community through articles and speaking, as a co-organizer of CITCON (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference), as the organizer for Silicon Valley Agile and BayXP, and as a long time committer to the open source project CruiseControl. He is one of The CI Guys (http://the.ci-guys.com) and can be reached at [email protected].
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Independent Consultant
An agile methodologist, practitioner, and coach based in Cary, NC, Robert Galen helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift toward Scrum and other agile methods and practices. He is president and principal consultant for RGCG, LLC, a Certified Scrum Master Practicing (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. Robert authored Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, and the Countdown to On-Time Delivery. He may be reached at [email protected] or at www.rgalen.com.
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Grove Consultants
With nearly twenty years of experience in the IT industry, Julie Gardiner has spent time 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 Grove Consultants, Julie provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She is a certified Scrum master. Julie won best presentation at STAREAST 2007 and 2005; best presentation at BCS SIGiST 2005; and best tutorial at EuroSTAR 2006.
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Salesforce.com
The Director of Tools & Process at Salesforce.com, Steve Greene is responsible for the implementation and evolution of agile methodologies and supporting tools for the Technology organization. He has held numerous senior management positions at on-demand startup and large enterprise software companies including DigitalThink, Hyperion, PeopleSoft/Oracle, SPC, and AOL. Steve brings a wealth of expertise and experience in productivity and process and product delivery. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University and is a board member of the BayAPLN.
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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 twenty-five year professional career. He has been a featured speaker on topics of systems integration, project management, and risk management. Payson’s rare combination of IT project management experience and communication skills has made him a valued member of many project review and project oversight teams.
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PerfTest Plus, Inc.
Dawn Haynes is a senior trainer and consultant for PerfTestPlus and a director of the Association for Software Testing. A highly regarded trainer of software testers, she blends experience and humor to provide testers of all levels with tools and techniques to help them generate new approaches to solving common and complex software testing problems. In addition to training, Dawn is particularly passionate about improving the state of performance testing across the industry. She has more than twenty years of experience supporting, administering, developing, and testing software and hardware systems—from small business operations to large corporate enterprises like John Hancock, Xerox, and New England Medical Center in Boston.
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Concurrent Session - What Your QA Program Is Missing Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:00 a.m. |
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Synova
Donald Mark Haynes is a mission-focused, innovative software engineering specialist with more than twenty-three years of experience implementing software solutions. Mark has in-depth expertise in quality assurance, software development, project management, software development methodologies, and software metrics. He has led development and QA teams (locally, remote, and off-shore) on Web, client-server, and mainframe platforms. He has performed in various project roles in development, infrastructure support, process improvement, audit, and training. He has implemented process improvements for project management, requirements management, quality assurance, and software configuration management. Currently, Mark is a QA Project Leader supporting automotive engineering applications.
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Concurrent Session - Ensuring Quality Requirements Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:45 p.m. |
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Northrop Grumman Corporation
Rick Hefner has more than thirty years of experience in software development, research, management, and he has served in industrial, academic, and government positions. He received his BS and MS from Purdue University in Interdisciplinary Engineering and his Ph.D. from UCLA in Applied Dynamic Systems Control. Rick has more than eighty publications and teaches at Caltech, UCLA, and UC Irvine. An SEI-authorized Instructor, CMMI® Lead Appraiser, and Six Sigma Black Belt, Rick currently serves as the Director of Process Management at Northrop Grumman. An industry leader in CMMI® adoption, more than thirty-five Northrop Grumman organizations have been externally appraised at CMMI Level 5.
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Concurrent Session - Making Smart Choices: Strategies for CMMI® Adoption Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:00 a.m. |
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Information Architects, Inc.
The president of Information Architects, Inc. and director of the Cutter Consortium’s agile consulting practice, Jim Highsmith has more than thirty years of experience as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, and software developer. He is the author of Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, and Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems, winner of the prestigious Jolt Award. Jim is coauthor of the Agile Manifesto, founding member of The Agile Alliance, coauthor of the Declaration of Interdependence for project leaders, and cofounder and first president of the Agile Project Leadership Network. Jim has consulted with IT and product development organizations and software companies on five continents.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ellen Hill has almost thirty years of experience developing software for scientific simulations and modeling at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She developed software to model physical processes as well as analyze experimental data. A software quality engineer for several physics-related projects, Ellen is responsible for maintaining the code’s compliance documents and assisting the development teams in meeting their software quality assurance goals.
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Software Quality Methods, LLC
Doug Hoffman (BACS, MSEE, MBA, Fellow of ASQ, Senior Member of ACM, Member of IEEE) has been an independent management consultant in software quality for more than fifteen years and was an engineer and manager at several companies before that. He has published papers on many technical and managerial topics in software quality over the past twenty years. Doug holds certificates from ASQ in Software Quality Engineering (CSQE) and Management of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE). Currently he does training and works with companies to evaluate organizational quality needs, architect test automation environments, and implement improvement solutions. Learn more about Doug at www.SoftwareQualityMethods.com.
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DevJam
For many years, David Hussman has led software projects in a variety of domains—digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, government, legal, security, industrial, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now spends his time coaching and leading agile project communities worldwide. The author of Cutting an Agile Groove and contributor to several books including Managing Agile Projects and Agile in the Large, David leads DevJam. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on using agile to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam (www.devjam.com) provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products.
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Standard Insurance Company
Mike Hryekewicz is the lead QA security engineer and performance engineer for Standard Insurance Company in Portland, Oregon. Because software security is related to reliability, Mike focuses his efforts on integrating the testing activities and toolsets of the performance and security domains—a resource leak detected in the former could lead to vulnerability in the latter. He has more than twenty years of experience in software development, software architecture, systems analysis, and quality assurance in a wide variety of environments. Mike holds certifications in secure software development (GSSP-Java) and in the secure implementation of the software development lifecycle (CSSLP). He can be reached at [email protected].
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Willowbark Consulting
Paul Julius recently founded Willowbark Consulting to enable clients in their agile development endeavors. He practices and mentors others on nearly every agile practice—from developer techniques to testing strategy to using adaptive project management approaches. Prior to serving on the executive team at Stelligent, he was at ThoughtWorks where he co-founded CruiseControl, an open source continuous integration server. To help promote activities that share information freely, Paul co-founded the Open Information Foundation. See www.pauljulius.com for more information or feel free to email him at [email protected]. Paul is one of the CI Guys, found at http://the.ci-guys.com.
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DST Output
Educated as an aerospace engineer at MIT and the University of Michigan, Ken Katz spent the first part of his career in the US Air Force and the aerospace industry. With the end of the Cold War and the downturn in the aerospace industry, he considered new careers as a circus clown and a country music superstar before settling on project management. For the past eight years, Ken has been employed by DST Output, managing projects in software development and information technology. Ken has earned the PMP certification from the Project Management Institute and has taught project management courses at the graduate level.
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Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, Inc.
Andy Kaufman works with people around the world who are struggling with how to deliver projects and lead teams. He 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. Andy is the author of three books, including Navigating the Winds of Change: Staying on Course in Business & in Life, Shining the Light on The Secret, and an e-book entitled How to Organize Your Inbox & Get Rid of E-Mail Clutter. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and host of The People and Projects Podcast. You can learn more about Andy at www.i-leadonline.com.
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Skytap
As director of product management, Ian Knox is responsible for all aspects of Skytap’s product management and go-to-market strategy. Ian joined Skytap from Microsoft Corporation where he was group product manager for Microsoft Visual Studio®. Prior to Microsoft, Ian was a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers where for seven years he worked on global software delivery projects for Fortune 500 clients.
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Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Jonathan Kohl is the founder and principal software consultant of Kohl Concepts, Inc. A noted software testing thinker and strategist, Jonathan is a natural investigator on software projects. In addition to assisting teams with testing, Jonathan helps companies define and implement their product vision, coaches practitioners as they develop software on teams, and works with leaders helping them define and implement their strategic vision. Jonathan is also a popular author and speaker. His blog on software development and testing issues is one of the most well-read testing blogs in the industry. Jonathan is a regular contributor to Better Software magazine, both as an author and technical editor. Contact Jonathan at www.kohl.ca.
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Rally Software Development
Richard Leavitt is a seasoned software executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience launching successful application development tools and enterprise applications. Richard was co-founder of Software Edge, the 1993 Jolt award-winning creator of Defect Control System purchased by Serena/Merant and now called PVCS Tracker©. He went on to help start Requisite, Inc., and the RequisitePro© product line before Rational Software acquired it in 1997. Richard began his career with Hewlett-Packard’s test and measurement group and has operated his consulting business, MarketWin, LLC., since 1994. Richard received his BSEE from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been a board member and advisor to numerous technology start-up companies.
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Atlantic Systems Guild
A software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. based in New York City, Tim Lister divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a co-author with his Guild partners of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior. He is co-author with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, the Jolt Award winner as General Computing Book of the Year for 2003-2004, and Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, now available in fourteen languages. Tim is currently a member of the Cutter IT Trends Council, the IEEE, and the ACM. He is in his twenty-third year as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services.
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QSM Associates, Inc.
Michael Mah is director of the Benchmarking Practice, an author with the Cutter Consortium, and managing partner of QSM Associates, Inc., specializing in software measurement and project estimation. He has written extensively and consulted with the world’s leading software organizations while collecting data on thousands of projects worldwide. Michael’s book-in-progress Optimal Friction examines the dynamics of teams under time pressure and its role in contributing to success and failure. He lives in the mountains of western Massachusetts with his two young children. Michael can be reached at www.qsma.com.
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IBM
Currently responsible for development transformational activities with IBM's software development group, Sue McKinney’s major emphasis is driving adoption of agile and lean principles into the mainstream of software development. Prior to this assignment, Sue was a Vice President of Development for the Lotus Division where she led worldwide development for Lotus Domino, IBM Sametime, and WebSphere Portal. In addition to driving transformational activities within IBM, Sue works with large clients to share IBM's experience and help them scope opportunities for their own transformational activities.
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Agile Institute
Lead instructor and co-founder of Agile Institute, Rob Myers has been training and coaching teams in agile practices and object-oriented programming since 1999. During his more than twenty years in various software development roles, Rob has enjoyed consulting for leading companies in the aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors. For Agile Institute and other training organizations, Rob teaches a variety of courses, including Test-Driven Development, and Agile Testing with Fit. Every course is infused with a blend of highly technical experience and techniques for preserving sanity in the workplace. Contact Rob at [email protected].
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Microsoft
Venkat Narayanan is a senior Test Lead in the Search and Ad Platform Group of Microsoft, where he works on the search user interface. Previously, Venkat was the test lead of the Live.com team in Microsoft’s online division, where he worked on end-to-end integration, and a tester on MSN homepage, where he worked on security and performance. His interests are best practices in software and services testing, UI automation, and monitoring.
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Headwaters, Inc.
The CIO and Director of Strategic Planning at Headwaters, Inc., Niel Nickolaisen has held technology executive and operations executive positions, typically in turnaround roles. He has developed a strategic and tactical alignment model that significantly improves returns on technology and business initiatives (by both improving the benefits and reducing the costs and risks). Niel holds a MS in Engineering from MIT and a BS in Physics from Utah State University. He writes the “Practical CIO” column for the CIO Leadership Network and a “how to” column for Search CIO. Niel’s new book on leadership is scheduled for release in 2009. He is one of the founders of Accelinnova, a think tank focused on improving organizational and IT agility.
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ThoughtWorks
Dan North has been working with software for twenty years, starting with playing Star Wars at a games company in the late 1980s. After graduating, he did real work, programming C on UNIX. Dan has worked in digital imaging, investment banking, ISPs, telcos, and car leasing. His sense of timing is demonstrated by his writing billing software for WorldCom in the late 1990s, consulting on sub-prime mortgage systems, and writing a trading platform for collateralized debt obligations (the product of choice for the credit meltdown). Since 2002 Dan has been a consultant with ThoughtWorks (http://thoughtworks.com) where he advocates simple, pragmatic common sense. He likes to talk about SOA, lean software development, NLP, and behavior-driven development (BDD). Dan occasionally blogs at http://dannorth.net.
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For the past twelve years, Jeff Patton has designed and developed software on a wide variety of projects from online aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. A winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to agile development, Jeff has focused on agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. He has specialized in the application of user centered design techniques to improve agile requirements, planning, and products. Some of Jeff’s recent writing on the subject can be found at www.agileproductdesign.com and Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear. Jeff’s forthcoming book gives tactical advice to those seeking to deliver useful, usable, and valuable software.
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Coveros, Inc.
Jeffery Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., where he has led the startup and growth of the company. Prior to Coveros, Jeffery was Chairman of the Board, CEO, and co-founder of Cigital, Inc. Under his direction, Cigital became a leader in software security and software quality solutions, helping clients mitigate the business risks associated with failed software. Jeffery is a recognized software expert and speaks to companies nationwide about the business risks of software failure. He has been a keynote and featured speaker at CIO and business technology conferences and frequently testifies before Congress on issues of national importance, including intellectual property rights, cyber-terrorism, and software quality.
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An international collaborative leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-five years of working inside and consulting with corporations and 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, director of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership, and co-author of the book Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Transformation. She co-founded the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and has chaired several Agile Leadership Summits across the country. Contact Pollyanna at [email protected].
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Macadamian Technologies
A founding partner of Macadamian Usability, Scott Plewes has fifteen years experience in the field of user experience design, including managing the introduction and evolution of user experience practices and processes into organizations. Scott's user experience design and research skills cover the spectrum from application and Web application user interface design through command line interface, PDA, and telephony interface design. Prior to co-founding Macadamian, Scott was a member of Nortel Network 's Usability Design Group for nine years. He has been a regular lecturer at World Usability Day events in Ottawa as well as a guest lecturer at Carleton University human factors related courses.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Gregory Pope has more than forty years of experience developing software in the commercial and government sectors, holding positions from programmer to CEO. Greg works for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Software Quality Engineering Group Leader and V&V Project Leader for Advanced Simulation and Computing. Previously, Greg founded and ran a software testing company and patented automated software testing tools. He has held management and technical positions involved with mission critical testing of military systems including electronic countermeasures, telemetry, and data acquisition systems for flight and experimental testing of aircraft and jet engines.
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With a Ph.D. in the field of object-based design metrics, 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, The Pattern Almanac 2000, A Patterns Handbook, and co-author with Mary Lynn Manns of Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. Find more information about Linda at www.lindarising.org.
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The College Board
Paul Robinson, Jr. is a project manager in the Office of Strategy Management at The College Board (www.collegeboard.com) in Reston, VA. He recently transitioned from an eleven-year career as a consultant where clients sought his experience across a range of disciplines including portfolio management, balanced scorecard design, performance management, and business process improvement. Paul is currently using his expertise in crafting and implementing portfolio management processes to shape and support The College Board’s Project Planning and Implementation efforts.
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Johanna Rothman consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She has helped engineering organizations, IT organizations, and startups hire technical people, manage projects, and release successful products faster. Johanna is the author of the Jolt Productivity Award winner Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management and Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People, and co-author with Esther Derby of the pragmatic Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. Johanna is a host of the Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference.
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Robert Sabourin 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. The author of I Am a Bug!, the popular software testing children’s book, Rob is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at McGill University.
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Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With almost forty years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader, trainer, and coach in the areas of lean software development, the lean-agile connection, Scrum, agile architecture, and using design patterns in agile environments. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide as well as a trainer/coach. Alan is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design and Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility.
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X2A Consulting
With a Ph.D. in value-based process frameworks for effective agile adoption, Ahmed Sidky has many years of experience in software development. Ahmed’s work has gained popularity and respect in the agile community as a pragmatic approach for organizations of all sizes attempting to adopt agile. Ahmed is frequently referred to as Dr. Agile because of his free on-line agile readiness assessment tool, Doctor Agile (www.doctoragile.com). He is a frequent speaker at national and international agile conferences and co-author of Becoming Agile. Ahmed helps guide small and large organizations during their transitions to agile software development and enjoys coaching and educating agile teams around the world.
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For the past eight years—of her more than twenty years in software development—Michele Sliger has been embracing change with agile methodologies. Co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility and a self-described “bridge builder,” her passion lies in helping those in traditional software development environments cross the bridge to agility. Michele consults with businesses ranging from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, helping teams with their agile adoption and organizations with the changes that agile adoption brings. A regular contributor to StickyMinds.com, Michele is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). She can be reached at [email protected].
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Thomas C. Staab is founder and president of Wind Ridge International, LLC, a resource and process management consulting firm. Tom is a consultant and trainer who specializes in helping CEOs, CIOs and CTOs discover their specific resource and process management challenges. He draws on more than thirty-five years of experience to provide customized solutions and training. Tom has authored more than thirty articles and publications and is the author of the e-book, The Real “How-To” on TMM. His new book, Ten Information Technology Challenges for the 21st Century, is scheduled for publication in 2009.
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SolutionsIQ
Chris Sterling, Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer for SolutionsIQ, has more than fifteen years of experience in software development and consulting. Chris helps clients increase product delivery throughput and consistency, improve software development processes and practices, enhance project management approaches, and enable application and enterprise architecture concerns to be addressed in an agile manner. He works on software development and enterprise integration projects for technology startups, large corporations, and government agencies. Chris has released and worked on multiple free and open source projects and provides thought leadership on the use of open source in the enterprise. He was founder of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Puget Sound Chapter and currently helps coordinate the Seattle Scrum Users Group.
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An agile fellow with Rally Software Development, Jean Tabaka has more than twenty-five years of experience in IT. After studying DSDM in the late 1990s, she became an agile devotee, working with organizations worldwide to deliver more value faster through the adoption of agile principles and practices. Specializing in scaling agile practices, guiding leadership shifts, applying lean, and building continuous planning practices, Jean uses a collaborative approach in helping organizations adopt agile. A Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and a Certified Professional Facilitator, Jean is the author of Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders. You can reach her at [email protected].
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Intel
John Terzakis has more than twenty-five years of experience in developing, writing, and testing software. With Intel for ten years, John is currently a staff engineer working with planning and development teams on enhancing product requirements based on retrospective data. He is a certified Intel facilitator for retrospectives and has conducted more than thirty-five retrospectives. John’s prior experience includes Engineering director and manager roles with Intel, Shiva, Racal InterLan, and Dataproducts and member of the technical staff at Bell Labs.
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Booz Allen Hamilton
For more than thirty years Terry Vogt has worked in IT areas ranging from programming, communications, database management, and systems support to capacity management, tools development, methodology research, and management consulting at many Fortune 500 companies. Much of his work has focused on the application of measurement to IT problem solving and is currently applied at Booz Allen Hamilton to Federal and DoD projects and development programs. He is a certified function point specialist (CFPS) and a frequent contributor to industry conferences focused on IT measurement, program management, and process improvement. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Rally Software Development
An agile coach with Rally Software Development (http://www.rallydev.com) in Boulder, Colorado, Rachel Weston has more than nine years of experience in the software development industry working with both in-house IT and product development teams and as a consultant working on software and strategic initiatives. Rachel has held many functional roles within software teams, including IT manager and director, project manager, business analyst, tech writer, and QA. Throughout her career, she has worked actively to improve processes in order to create a more collaborative, successful, and therefore satisfying working environment. She is passionate about the positive changes agile methods can bring to software development teams and their customers. You can contact Rachel at [email protected].
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