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As an agile coach with BootStrap Agile, and co-founder of e-learning publisher Development Knowledge, Steve Adolph pursues his passion for helping organizations get the job done. Steve has been creating and managing software development projects long enough to remember FORTRAN and PDP-11s. His professional career includes many exciting and critical projects—designing call processing software for digital telephone exchanges, design and development of leading edge network management systems, railway signaling, and telecom billing.

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

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By successfully implementing Scrum and exploratory testing in customer projects in diverse areas of online gaming and stock exchange programs, and as a co-creator of xBTM, Michael Albrecht has a good track-record of inspiring testers to take their testing to new levels and to find unexpected bugs in unexpected ways. Michael is one of the enthusiasts behind Swedish Exploratory Testers and Stockholm Exploratory Testing, peer conferences for exploratory testing geeks in Sweden.

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StepLeader, Inc.

Josh Anderson loves software. A beat-up TRS-80 changed his life, and Josh now spends almost every moment that he is away from his family figuring out how to better the craft of software. Solving hard problems and sharing those solutions with the community fuel his passion. Josh spent the last fifteen years in the trenches learning how to build and lead effective and efficient software engineering teams. In an effort to pass his learnings on to others, he now co-hosts a podcast with fellow agile evangelist Bob Galen.

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Applause
Concurrent Sessions The Secrets of Mobile App Testing

Jason Arbon currently leads the labs engineering team at applause.com. In the past, Jason worked on Google Chrome, ChromeOS, Google+, several Microsoft teams including Bing and most importantly WinFS. He coauthored the book How Google Tests Software. Jason has started several open source projects, more recently the opentipmap.com project to codify mobile best practices.

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LitheSpeed

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

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LitheSpeed

Arlen Bankston is an established 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 also 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.

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Joy Beatty is a vice president at Seilevel, a business analysis consulting firm whose mission is to redefine the way software requirements are created. Joy implements new methodologies and best practices that improve requirements elicitation and modeling for Seilevel. Her team provides business analyst assessment, mentoring, training, and staffing services for companies across the US. As a senior business architect, Joy advises Fortune 500 companies as they build business analysis centers of excellence.

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Jennifer Bonine is a VP of global delivery and solutions for tap|QA, Inc., a global company that specializes in strategic solutions for businesses. Jennifer began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. She has held executive level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams for Fortune 500 companies in several domains. In a recent engagement for one of the world’s largest technology companies, Jennifer served as a strategy executive and in corporate marketing for the C-Suite.

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Passionately focused on the facilitation of high-performance software development teams, Tricia Broderick brings seventeen years of experience including the past seven years of focus with an agile mindset. Tricia leverages and openly shares work experience stories and examples to inspire people, especially managers and leaders, to reach new heights through continuous reflection, both as individuals and as members of innovative teams.

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Shawn Button was bitten by the software bug in his early teens, writing programs on paper before he had access to a computer. Now Shawn has racked up more than two decades of software development experience—from small startups to huge enterprises. Discovering the power of agile and lean has renewed his love for software development. As an agile coach, Shawn believes that any team can do great things—with the right leadership, mentorship, support, and a system in which to shine.

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A self-proclaimed nerd, Brandon Carlson works for Lean TECHniques, Inc., an IT consultancy that helps teams deliver high-value, high-quality products to market. Since starting his career in 1995, Brandon has held positions from development and architecture to management—and he’s still learning. Passionate about elevating the performance of IT as a whole, he has helped numerous organizations from startups to Fortune 100 companies improve their product development and delivery systems.

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With more than thirty years of experience as an information systems professional at commercial and nonprofit organizations, Lee Copeland has held technical and managerial positions in applications development, software testing, and software process improvement. At Software Quality Engineering, Lee has developed and taught numerous training courses on software development and testing issues, and is a sought-after speaker at software conferences in the United States and abroad.

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Software Quality Engineering

A consultant, lecturer, author, and test manager, Rick Craig has led numerous teams of testers on both large and small projects. In his thirty years of consulting worldwide, Rick has advised and supported a diverse group of organizations on many testing and test management issues. From large insurance providers and telecommunications companies to smaller software services companies, he has mentored senior software managers and helped test teams improve their effectiveness.

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Agile Velocity

Chief agile scientist at Agile Velocity in Austin, Texas, David Croley likes helping teams solve challenging problems efficiently and with minimum frustration. With more than twenty years of professional software development experience in both large and small companies, he has a broad technical background. David has learned that  a pragmatic application of agile development practices can be very successful on both large and small projects. “Outcome Over Output” is his mantra. He co-leads the Agile Austin Developer’s SIG.

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Rally Software Development

Chris Farrell started in the late 1990s as a developer in the aerospace and gaming industries. In 2004, he applied for a position doing Extreme Programming. Chris wondered if this was something like programming while cave diving. He didn’t expect that working on an XP team would cause him to reevaluate what he knew of programming. XP would humble him—and help him unleash his real potential. Currently an agile coach at Rally Software, Chris is now a cave diver.

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An agile methodologist, practitioner, and coach based in Cary, NC, Bob Galen helps guide companies in their adoption of Scrum and other agile methodologies and practices. Bob is a principal agile evangelist at Velocity Partners, a leading agile nearshore development partner; president of RGCG; and frequent speaker on software development, project management, software testing, and team leadership at conferences and professional groups. He is a Certified Scrum Coach, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and an active member of the Agile and Scrum Alliances.

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Gene Gotimer is a senior architect at Coveros, Inc., a consulting company that uses agile methods to accelerate the delivery of secure, reliable software. Gene is an experienced software developer who focuses on continuous integration, static code analysis, automation, and any tool he can find to do his work for him. For the past few years, he has been on a team that is bringing a continuous delivery process into the US Department of Defense, showing that higher quality software can be delivered quicker and with more security by using agile techniques.

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Ellen Gottesdiener, founder and principal with EBG Consulting, is an internationally recognized leader in the collaborative convergence of requirements + product management + project management. Ellen coaches and trains individuals and teams, and facilitates discovery and planning workshops across diverse industries. She writes widely and speaks at conferences worldwide.

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

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A systems engineer and project management consultant, Payson Hall is a founding member of Catalysis Group, Inc. Formally trained as a software engineer and computer scientist, Payson has performed and consulted on a variety of hardware and software systems integration projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his thirty-year professional career. He has been a writer and featured speaker on topics of systems integration, project management, and risk management.

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

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IT consultant Anne Hungate helps organizations find the best methods to shift defect detection and resolution earlier in the lifecycle. While at Union Bank, Anne had led the IT organization’s software engineering practices, IT service management, shared tools and applications, and central testing. She joined Union Bank from Nationwide Insurance where she established the quality function for Nationwide Direct’s IT business solution area, driving improved customer experience and software quality through refined engineering practices.

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Working with companies of all sizes worldwide, David Hussman teaches and coaches the adoption of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. Sometimes he pairs with developers and testers; other times he helps plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with leadership groups to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and a competitive business advantage. Prior to working as a full-time coach, he spent years building software in the audio, biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education sectors.

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Rohit Jainendra (RJ) is vice president of products at Electric Cloud. With nearly two decades of product experience, RJ is keen on helping organizations accelerate their pace of software innovation through adoption of continuous delivery practices. Previously, he served as vice president of products at Serena Software where he led the products in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) business unit. During his tenure, RJ designed the award-winning Serena Release Manager and spearheaded the company's entry into the DevOps space.

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Scrum, Inc

A consultant at Scrum, Inc., and inventor of the eXtreme Manufacturing project management method, Joe Justice is the founder of Team WIKISPEED, an all Scrum volunteer-based, “green” automotive prototyping company. Joe is a principal thought leader in Scrum, a TEDx speaker, and coach for agile hardware and manufacturing teams worldwide. He consults and coaches teams on implementing Scrum at all organizational levels, both in software and physical manufacturing.

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B2T Training president Kupe Kupersmith has more than fifteen years of business analysis experience in various industries. If that’s not enough, Kupe is also an experienced improvisational comedian. With this combined background, he has been helping teams achieve high performance by applying improvisation skills to improve communication and collaboration. Kupe uses these skills to define and implement strategic initiatives.

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Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.

In the past fifteen years, Mitch Lacey has managed numerous plan-driven and agile projects. At Microsoft, Mitch honed his agile skills, successfully releasing core enterprise services for Windows Live, and transitioned from program manager to Agile Coach, helping others transition to agile practices. At Ascentium Corporation he became the agile practice manager, coaching customers on agile practices and adoption worldwide.

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A software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. in New York City, Tim Lister divides his time consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a coauthor with his Guild partners of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior; coauthor with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects—both Jolt Award winners as General Computing Book of the Year. Tim and Tom coauthored the classic Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd Edition.

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

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New York University

Mark Meretzky has been teaching since 1990 at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where he has created courses in UNIX, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, iOS, and Android. Many years before that, Mark taught Zilog Z80 assembly language on the original Radio Shack TRS-80. He was one of the operators of the Andrus Planetarium at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York, and in his spare time still programs astronomical simulations with the application Celestia, using a custom superset of the language Lua.

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PaigeTechnologies
Concurrent Sessions Demystifying Big Data and NoSQL

With more than eighteen years of experience in software development and management, Jon Mills has built and led agile teams in environments from small start-ups to large-scale financial institutions. As a skilled mentor and international speaker, Jon has the opportunity to promote positive management practices and personal development skills to developers and managers in many different situations.

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Agile Institute

Rob Myers is the founder of Agile Institute. He has twenty-eight years of professional experience on software development teams, and has been training and coaching organizations in Agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming topics since 1998. He has recently worked with numerous organizations, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, helping them with cultural change and essential practices during their Agile transformations.

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A senior partner in Oppenheimer Partners, Heather Oppenheimer guides clients in using techniques adapted from software architecture best practices and agile methodologies to design process solutions that work for them―without adding unnecessary overhead. Heather consults and provides training and appraisals for clients in the public and private sectors worldwide, working with both small service delivery and embedded software development organizations and large globally-distributed development projects.

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

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

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Cisco Video Technologies France

Jeanne Peng is a passionate system integration and software engineer at Cisco Video Technologies France (Cisco VTF). With her background in both development and testing, Jeanne demonstrates a remarkable performance in the integration and the validation of set-up box E2E systems. She is constantly seeking innovative methods to improve the way people work. With her passion for testing, learning, and creativity, and her interests in critical thinking, analyzing, exploratory testing, mind mapping, and communication, she is a key part of her team.

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Software Quality Engineering

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

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International leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-eight years of working inside and consulting with many organizations. She helps companies create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed—making them more productive, efficient, and profitable. Pollyanna is a founding partner of Accelinnova, president of Evolutionary Systems, and director of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership.

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Atlassian
Industry Technical Presentations Git Branching for Agile Teams

Dan Radigan has fifteen years of experience in software development wearing a wide variety of hats―program management, engineering, quality, and now marketing. Dan is currently senior agile evangelist for Atlassian, makers of JIRA, a popular issue-tracking platform for product teams. He loves to see teams succeed with agile, and has helped many technical and nontechnical teams see its benefits and transition to agile. Previously Dan worked on software development teams for Netflix, Dell, and Adobe.

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Rice Consulting Services, Inc.

A leading author, speaker, and consultant with more than thirty years of experience in the field of software testing and software quality, Randy Rice has worked with organizations worldwide to improve the quality of their information systems and optimize their testing processes. He is coauthor (with William E. Perry) of Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing and Testing Dirty Systems. Randy is an officer of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).

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

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AmiBug.com

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

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With more than forty years of experience, the founder and CEO of Net Objectives Al Shalloway is an industry thought leader in lean, SAFe, kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum, and agile design. Al helps companies transition enterprise-wide to lean and agile methods, and teaches courses in these areas—one of a handful of SAFe SPC trainers.

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Independent Consultant
Concurrent Sessions Play the Lean Startup Game

Ram Srinivasan is an agile coach and trainer, partnering with his clients and using his expertise to create pragmatic solutions. Ram regularly conducts public and private training sessions on agile methodologies, lean-kanban systems, coaching, facilitation, and Innovation Games®. He has a project management background (PMP, CSP, PMI-ACP) and more than ten years of experience working with start-ups, mid-size and large organizations (e-commerce, media, telecom, finance, and insurance).

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A quality engineering architect at Salesforce.com, Keith Stobie plans, designs, and reviews software architecture and tests. Keith’s interests are in testing methodology, tools technology, and quality process. He has more than twenty years in the software testing and quality engineering field with a focus on distributed systems testing. Keith has worked at TiVo, Doyenz, BEA, Informix, and Tandem, and on Microsoft projects including Windows Communication Foundation, Bing, and the Protocol Engineering team working on model-based testing.

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Improve Quality IT Services BV

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

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The author of implementingscrum.com, Michael Vizdos travels internationally working with clients to improve product delivery to their customers using Scrum and other agile techniques. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer with more than twenty years of experience in all facets of software development and product delivery.

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Ken Whitaker of Leading Software Maniacs® has more than twenty-five years of software development executive leadership and training experience in a various 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® registered education provider, Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified, and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

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James Whittaker is a technology executive with a career that spans academia, start-ups, and top tech companies. With a PhD in computer science, James worked for IBM, Ericsson, SAP, Cisco, and Microsoft. In 1996, he joined the faculty at Florida Institute of Technology where his work in Y2K testing and software security earned many awards. James’ first stint at Microsoft was in Trustworthy Computing and then Visual Studio. In 2009, he joined Google as an engineering director and led teams working on Chrome, Chrome OS, Maps, and Google+.

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Siemens AG

A principal engineer at Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, in Munich, Germany, Peter Zimmerer has been working in the field of software testing and quality engineering for more than twenty years. Peter performs consulting, coaching, and training on test management and test engineering practices in real-world projects, driving research and innovation in this area. An ISTQB® Certified Tester Full Advanced Level, Peter is a member of the German Testing Board, has authored several journal and conference contributions, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences.

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