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IBM Rational
Chief methodologist for IT with IBM Rational, Scott Ambler works with IBM customers worldwide to help them improve their software processes. Scott is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies and creator of the Agile Scaling Model (ASM). He is the (co-)author of twenty books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, The Enterprise Unified Process, and the forthcoming Disciplined Agile Delivery. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Visit his personal home page and his Agility@Scale blog.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Disciplined Agile Delivery: The Foundation for Scaling Agile
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Intel
The co-director of Agile@Intel, Ray Arell has more than twenty years of hardware and software development, validation, and management experience. During his tenure, he has worked on a variety of teams focused on CPU, chipsets, and graphics system-level testing. A leading force in the agilization of Intel, Ray works in Intel's SSG-Visual Computing Software Division as co-director of the Intel Agility Catalyst Team. Ray is co-founder of the Intel Agile conference, teaches and mentors agile practices at all levels inside Intel, is coauthor of Change-Based Test Management: Improving the Software Validation Process, and is a popular speaker at events worldwide.
Concurrent Session:
Software Development Productivity: A New Way of Thinking
Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:15 AM
Intermountain Healthcare
Carol Askew has more than twenty-seven years of experience in IT software development. For the past fourteen years, she has specialized in project management, business analysis, and quality assurance for web solutions at Intermountain Healthcare, the largest healthcare provider in the Intermountain West. Employing more than 32,000 people, Intermountain Healthcare is recognized nationally as one of the “most-wired hospitals”, “most innovative in employing information technology”, and one of the “top workplaces for information technology professionals”. PMP and ITIL certified, Carol has worked for both consulting firms and large corporations on software development teams in many roles. Carol can be reached at carol.askew@imail.org.
Concurrent Session:
Ten Tips to Get Requirements Right and Make Stakeholders Happy
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
LitheSpeed, LLC
An industry-leading agile and lean expert, Sanjiv Augustine has assisted several leading clients adopt agile methods during the past decade. He is the author of several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery, and the book Managing Agile Projects. The founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group, Sanjiv is also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and member of the Project Management Institute (PMI)' Agile Forum Steering Committee. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed agile projects varying in size from five to more than one-hundred people, trained thousands of agile practitioners via public classes and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams.
Multi-day Training Class:
Certified ScrumMaster Training (CSM) + PMI-ACP
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
LitheSpeed
Arlen Bankston is a leader in the application and evolution of process management methodologies such as lean, Six Sigma, and BPM, as well as agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. He has twelve years of experience in product design, leveraging principles of information architecture, interaction design, and usability to develop innovative products that meet customers' expressed and unspoken needs. Arlen's recent work has centered on combining Lean Six Sigma process improvement methods with agile execution to dramatically improve both the speed and quality of business results. He has led the integration of interaction design and usability practices into agile methodologies.
Multi-day Training Class:
Product Owner Certification
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
A Visual Management System for Enterprise Agile Projects
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
LeanDog, Inc.
Matt Barcomb is passionate about building collaborative cross-functional teams, the out-of-doors, puns, and providing holistic sustainable solutions to organizations trying to improve. Matt started programming as a wee lad and eventually wound up getting paid for it. It took him nearly ten years before he realized that the “people problem” was the biggest issue facing most software development. Since then, he has spent his time and energy trying to find interesting ways of making the business-software universe a better place to work, play, and do business. Matt is employed by LeanDog where he keeps busy with organizational transformations. He shares his insights on his blog.
Morning Tutorial:
Brewing Up Exploratory Testing in an Agile World
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Blue Ocean Services at Seilevel, Inc.
Joy Beatty is vice president of Blue Ocean Services at Seilevel, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based professional services company, focused exclusively on requirements. Joy is responsible for developing new methodologies to help improve requirements elicitation and modeling approaches for Seilevel customers. She works with customers to build business analysis centers of excellence, provide training, and work on projects as a requirements architect to plan the requirements efforts. Joy has provided training to more than 600 business analysts. She writes about Seilevel studies and methodologies in white papers and on the blog.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
QSM, Inc.
Paul Below serves as services consultant for Quantitative Software Management (QSM), where he provides clients with statistical analysis of operational performance, helping strengthen their competitive position through process improvement and predictability. Paul has more than twenty-five years of experience in measurement technology, statistical analysis, estimating and forecasting, Lean Six Sigma, and data mining. He has provided innovative engineering solutions, instruction, and mentoring internationally in support of multiple industries. A certified software quality analyst and a Six Sigma Black Belt, Paul has been a course developer, instructor, and conference speaker on estimating, Lean Six Sigma, metrics analysis, and Function Point analysis.
Concurrent Session:
Optimal Project Performance: Factors that Influence Project Duration
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
To Be Agile
In his thirty-year career as a software developer and technical trainer, David Bernstein has trained more than 6,000 developers in several Fortune® 500 companies. David trained IBM software engineers around the world, giving them the tools to write the next generation of applications and operating-system software, and earning one of the highest satisfaction ratings in IBM corporate education history. In 1998, he founded MicroSurfer Corporation, whose web-productivity software attracted rave reviews from the technology press. In the past five years, David has trained and coached developers at Microsoft, Boeing, Real Networks, SunGard, and more. David is an award-winning video producer.
Concurrent Session:
Writing High Quality Code
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
Up Ur Game Learning Solutions
Jennifer Bonine serves as a partner and VP of Global Delivery for Up Ur Game Learning Solutions, a global people development company that offers F2F and virtual models for team and personal development. Jennifer began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. She has held director level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams for Fortune 500 companies in several domains. In her most recent engagement for one of the world’s largest technology companies, Jennifer served as the Strategic Quality and Process Improvement Executive. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to build several global teams from the ground up while managing the required organizational change.
Morning Tutorial:
What’s Your Leadership IQ?
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
Understanding and Managing Change
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
TechSmith
Tricia Broderick is one of the directors of development at TechSmith, which builds innovative tools—Snagit, Camtasia Studio, Camtasia Relay, Coach’s Eye, Jing, Screencast.com—to facilitate visual communication. Tricia is responsible for creating and maintaining an engaging and empowering environment for software engineering teams to deliver high quality products. With sixteen years of experience—the last six focused on agile principles—her passion for mentoring and coaching has been essential in successfully transitioning from a manager to an agile leader. Recently, her team summarized her leadership by highlighting that she knows just when to honestly challenge someone out of their comfort zone while continuously providing support and encouragement.
Concurrent Session:
Why Self-reflection Matters!
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
ThoughtWorks
A principal consultant with ThoughtWorks, Tim Brown leads the company's Continuous Delivery practice in the Americas. Most weeks you'll find him speaking about engineering practices, advising clients on software delivery challenges, and helping teams release software faster. An early adopter of agile methods, Tim has broad experience in leading local and distributed teams in continuous delivery, software development, and agile adoption. Prior to joining ThoughtWorks, Tim spent more than twenty years in technology, leading both large and small teams—as engineer, architect, president, co-founder, and most recently CTO. Away from his professional life, Tim is an avid cyclist and curates a sterling collection of ridiculous t-shirts.
Full-day Tutorial:
Continuous Delivery: Rapid and Reliable Releases
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Coveros, Inc.
Dave Burke is the COO of Coveros, Inc., where he has led the startup and growth of the company. Prior to Coveros, Dave was COO for Digital Focus, a software development consulting company that provided Agile adoption and software development services to customers ranging from enterprise class to entrepreneurial start-ups. Dave has nearly a decade of hands on experience helping clients understand, embrace, and gain business value using Agile software development principles. He has led numerous enterprise level software development programs and projects, including the development of a large scale systems integration strategy for a global 100 communications company. Dave's experience spans the US market and Europe where he established and led a UK based subsidiary of Digital Focus.
Multi-day Training Class:
Fundamentals of Agile Certification
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
LogiGear
An internationally recognized expert in testing, Hans Buwalda is the pioneer of keyword-driven test automation, an approach now widely used throughout the testing industry. Originally from the Netherlands, Hans is the CTO of California-based LogiGear, directing the development of the successful Action Based Testing™ methodology for keyword-driven test automation and its supporting TestArchitect™ toolset. Prior to joining LogiGear, he served as project director at CMG (now Logica) in the Netherlands. Hans speaks frequently at international conferences on concepts such as Soap Opera Testing, Three Holy Grails of Test Development, Testing in the Cold, and Jungle Testing. Hans is coauthor of Integrated Test Design and Automation: Using the TestFrame Method.
Concurrent Session:
The Challenges of BIG Testing: Automation, Virtualization, Outsourcing, and More
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
Hewlett-Packard
Roi Carmel has twelve years of experience in software development, engineering management, and product management. Leading Product Management for ALM at Hewlett-Packard’s Application Transformation business unit, Roi is responsible for the company’s mobile ALM agenda (including mobile testing), testing products (Unified Functional Testing, Business Process Testing, and Sprinter), and offerings for developers (Application Lifecycle Intelligence, Systinet, and others). He works directly with HP customers and sets product development goals/specifications to bring new products to market. With almost a full career in Quality and ALM products, Roi works with the HP team to plan the next generation of ALM tools for the modern challenges of the market.
Concurrent Session:
Automate to Accelerate: Planning Your Next Test Automation Steps
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
CBT Nuggets
Steve Caseley has more than thirty years of experience in IT consulting and more than twenty years as a practicing project manager for projects ranging from real-time radio transmitter control systems to world-wide stock portfolio management systems to a multi-million dollar video gaming terminal implementation. Steve recently has focused on helping others fine tune their PM skills and has been teaching for ten years at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He is developing online training modules for CBT Nuggets and is a trainer for both PMI’s PMP and Comptia’s Project+ PM certification exams. Find out more at cbtnuggets.com or reach Steve at steve@cbtnuggets.com.
Concurrent Session:
How to Rework Poorly Defined Requirements
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
280 Group
A senior principal consultant with the 280 Group and a Certified ScrumMaster, Greg Cohen is a fifteen-year product management veteran with extensive experience and knowledge of agile development. Greg has consulted to venture start-ups and large companies alike, and has trained product managers throughout the world on agile development, feature prioritization, product innovation, product lifecycle process, and product management assessment. Greg is the author of Lean Product Management, Agile Excellence for Product Managers, and 42 Rules of Product Management; a speaker and frequent commentator on product management issues; and former president of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Lean Product Management: When Phase Gate Is the Wrong Choice
Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:30 PM
Mozilla
Marlena Compton is an open source disruptor and Software Engineer in Test for Mozilla, one of the world’s largest open source projects. Currently, she contributes to the writing of automated checks for addons.mozilla.org and delights in assisting others to get started with their own open source contributions. Whether she is testing or writing code, Marlena enjoys taking a pragmatic, real-world approach to software and advocates for placing a primary testing emphasis on exploratory testing done by a whole team. Marlena previously worked as a tester for Atlassian Software Systems in Sydney, Australia. A frequent presenter at conferences, Marlena blogs at marlenacompton.com
Concurrent Session:
Creating a Professional Credo: Aligning Career, Goals, and Personal Happiness
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
Google
With more than fifteen years of experience in software engineering, Patrick Copeland is passionate about delivering innovation, and building and improving world-class products. As a senior engineering director at Google, he leads the Decision Platforms team that builds platforms and infrastructure for Google’s advertising business. Previous to Decision Platforms at Google, Patrick was responsible for a group of a thousand engineers in twenty-five countries. His team developed innovative engineering tools, systems, and process that provide a competitive advantage for Google. His goal is to accelerate Google and save time that then can be used for innovation. During his eleven years at Microsoft, he led engineering teams that created operating systems, databases, business applications, and cloud-based systems.
Keynote:
The Paths to Innovation
Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:45 PM
Software Quality Engineering
A consultant, lecturer, author, and test manager, Rick Craig has led numerous teams of testers on both large and small projects. In his twenty-five years of consulting worldwide, Rick has advised and supported a diverse group of organizations on many testing and test management issues. From large insurance providers and telecommunications companies to smaller software services companies, he has mentored senior software managers and helped test teams improve their effectiveness. Rick is co-author of Systematic Software Testing and is a frequent speaker at testing conferences, including every STAR conference since its inception.
Morning Tutorial:
Leadership for Test Managers
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Essential Test Management and Planning
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Spark Quality, LLC
Lanette Creamer likes testing software even more than Diet Coke and cats. After working for a decade at Adobe, including leading coordinated testing across products on the Creative Suites, Lanette jumped into independent consulting. Throughout her career, Lanette has evangelized advancement of real-time human thought over process solutions in software quality. Testing should be customized, using a context appropriate balance of automation and tool-assisted creative techniques to achieve effective coverage. Deeply passionate about collaboration, Lanette believes it is a powerful solution when facing complex technical challenges. Find Lanette on her well-known TestyRedhead blog, on Twitter, and occasionally in industry magazines and technical papers.
Bonus Session:
From Practitioner to Published Author: A Workshop About Writing About Software
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
Brewing Up Exploratory Testing in an Agile World
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Shunra
Vice president of Channel Operations and Services at Shunra, Todd DeCapua’s expertise includes application development, global project management, partnership strategy, collaborative methods including Scrum, infrastructure architecture, business continuity, and disaster recovery. Todd has extensive consulting experience, having provided guidance to more than seventy organizations across nearly all industries. A popular speaker, author, and visionary, Todd is one of the technology industry's most respected thought leaders on application performance engineering. Before joining Shunra in 2010, he held senior leadership roles in both IT development and IT infrastructure at ING DIRECT.
Concurrent Session:
Mobile Apps: Breaking Down the Barriers
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:15 AM
Microsoft
A senior program manager on the Visual Studio® product team at Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad, Darshan Desai designs tools that improve the collaboration and efficiency of testers and developers. Joining Microsoft in 2005, Darshan spent his first two years as a software design engineer in testing on the Windows Live team. He has spoken at testing and development conferences across the globe including STAR EAST, Tech-Ed USA & China, and EuroSTAR. Darshan has filed for a patent in the testing and development practices space.
Morning Tutorial:
Experience an Iteration: The Joys of Agile Done Right
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Microsoft
Seth Eliot is senior knowledge engineer for Microsoft Test Excellence focusing on driving best practices for services and cloud development, and testing across the company. Seth previously was senior test manager for the team solving exabyte storage and data processing challenges for Bing, and another enabling developers to innovate by testing new ideas quickly with users “in production” with the Microsoft Experimentation Platform (exp-platform.com). Testing in Production (TiP), software processes, cloud computing, and other topics are ruminated upon at Seth's blog and on Twitter @setheliot. Prior to Microsoft, Seth delivered high quality software services at Amazon.com.
Concurrent Session:
Leaping into the Cloud: Risks and Mitigation Strategies
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
Intellectica, Inc.
President and senior consultant of Intellectica Inc., Conrad Fujimoto is an information technology professional with thirty-five years of experience in the education, government, financial, and utility sectors. An accomplished educator and author of several courses, Conrad delivers courses in software testing, relational database technology, data modeling, application programming, business analysis, and facilitation techniques. He lives in Mississauga, just outside the greater Toronto area.
Multi-day Training Class:
Software Testing Certification—Foundation Level Training
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
RGalen Consulting Group
Bob Galen is the president of RGalen Consulting Group,, a North Carolina-based firm specializing in agile testing and leading agile adoption initiatives. Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to software development, project management, software testing, and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Master Practicing (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. In 2009, Bob published Scrum Product Ownership–Balancing Value from the Inside Out, which addresses the gap in guidance toward effective agile product management. You can reach Bob at bob@rgalen.com or bob.galen@zenergytechnologies.com
Morning Tutorial:
Software Endgames: Learn to Finish What You Start
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Morning Tutorial:
Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Teams
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
A Test Leader’s Guide to Agile
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Sage UK
In the IT industry for more than twenty years, Julie Gardiner has held positions as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA, and project manager. She has first-hand experience as a test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager. Previously with UK-based Grove Consultants for seven years, Julie now is a QA Test Manager with Sage UK, R&D Division. A certified ScrumMaster, Julie specializes in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She has been a keynote speaker at STAR EAST, STAR WEST, Innovate Test Management, ANZTB, and STANZ.
Morning Tutorial:
Project Management Dashboards: Clear, Concise, Actionable
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Test Management: Being Relevant and Making a Difference
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Morning Tutorial:
Usability Testing in a Nutshell
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
ClearSpecs Enterprises
The chief technology officer and president of ClearSpecs Enterprises, David Gelperin has more than forty years of experience in software with an emphasis on requirements risk management and software quality, verification, and testing as a consultant/mentor and instructor, quality support manager, verification lead, project lead, and programmer. He has consulted for both commercial and in-house software development organizations. In 1986, David co-founded Software Quality Engineering, the leading provider of software quality information worldwide, and catalyzed the launch of Better Software magazine. He has a PhD in computer science but has managed to help people do useful things anyway.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Managing Requirements Risk: Concepts and Tactics
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
WellPoint
With almost a decade of experience in the field of software quality assurance, Santhosh Gnaneswaran has been advocating standardization of QA processes and product implementations with his teams. In his current role Santhosh supports functional and performance test automation efforts for a Siebel-based CRM application. He likes to explore the latest trends in software test automation and the possibilities of adopting them in one’s own organization.
Bonus Session:
The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)
Friday, June 15, 2012 8:30 AM
EBG Consulting
Ellen Gottesdiener is founder and principal with EBG Consulting, experts helping you deliver high-value products your customers want and need. Ellen is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker, and expert in agile product management practices, product envisioning and roadmapping, business analysis and requirements, retrospectives, and collaboration. She works with global clients and speaks at numerous industry conferences. Author of two acclaimed books— Requirements by Collaboration and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger—Ellen is co-authoring (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices. View her articles, tweets, blog, free eNewsletter, and useful practitioner resources on EBG’s website, ebgconsulting.com.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
DragonFire, Inc.
The co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Agile Testers and Teams, Janet Gregory specializes in helping teams build quality systems. Based in Calgary, Canada, Janet’s greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. As tester or coach she has helped introduce agile development practices into companies and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Janet’s focus is working with business users and testers to understand their roles in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions. Janet is a frequent speaker at leading agile and testing software conferences around the world, including the STAR testing conferences.
Morning Tutorial:
Agile Test Automation
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Catalysis Group, Inc.
A systems engineer and project management consultant, Payson Hall is a founding member of Catalysis Group, Inc. Formally trained as a software engineer and computer scientist, he has performed and consulted on a variety of hardware and software systems integration projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his thirty-year professional career. Payson has been a writer and featured speaker on topics of systems integration, project management, and risk management. His rare combination of IT project management experience and communication skills has made him a valued member of many project review and project oversight teams.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Twelve Risks to Enterprise Software Projects—And What to Do about Them
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Full-day Tutorial:
Consultants’ Skills You Can Use Today
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
PerfTestPlus, Inc.
An experienced test consultant and presenter, Dawn Haynes is a highly regarded trainer of software testers. She blends experience and humor to provide testers of all levels with tools and techniques to help them generate new approaches to common and complex software testing problems. In addition to training, Dawn is particularly passionate about improving the state of performance testing across the industry. She has more than twenty years of experience supporting, administering, developing, and testing software and hardware systems—from small business operations to large corporate enterprises.
Multi-day Training Class:
Agile Testing Practices
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
McKesson Health Solutions
At McKesson Health Solutions, Richard Hensley leads the lean business and product development transformation, establishing the vision for development for the next decade. Richard is working with business and product development leaders to “pull the quality lever” in a meaningful way. Their goal is to transform the development organization responsible for products supporting four major lines of business that contribute significantly to the financial success of McKesson. Richard is a twenty-five year product development veteran in the healthcare technology industry and has built systems supporting pharmacies, prescription insurance claims, clinical laboratories, and many more. In these products, Richard has worked as software engineer, quality engineer, system architect, change agent, process lead, and technology lead.
Keynote:
Sustainable Software Quality—at Warp Speed
Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:30 AM
DevJam
Working with companies of all sizes worldwide, David Hussman teaches and coaches the adoption of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. Sometimes he pairs with developers and testers; other times he helps plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with leadership groups to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and a competitive business advantage. Prior to working as a full-time coach, he spent years building software in a variety of domains: audio, biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. For more information, visit devjam.com.
Morning Tutorial:
Tuning and Improving Your Agility
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Agile Project Design: Building Strong Backlogs
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Agile Estimation and Planning: Scrum, Kanban, and Beyond
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Microsoft
Ken Johnston is the principal test and business operations manager for the Bing Shopping, Travel, and Entertainment verticals. Since joining Microsoft in 1998, Ken has held positions of test lead on Site Server and MCIS, and test manager on Hosted Exchange, Knowledge Worker Services, Net Docs, MSN, Microsoft Billing and Subscription Platform service, and Bing Infrastructure. For two and a half years he served as the Microsoft Director of Test Excellence. A frequent speaker, blogger, and author on software testing and services, Ken is co-author of How We Test Software at Microsoft and contributing author to Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation. Reach Ken through twitter @rkjohnston.
Keynote:
The Blurred Boundaries Between Dev, Test, and Ops
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Leaping into the Cloud: Risks and Mitigation Strategies
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
Tasktop Technologies
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 Session:
ALM in the Cloud: Bringing Code to the Cloud and Back Again
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.
Over the past fifteen years, Mitch Lacey has managed numerous plan-driven and agile projects. At Microsoft Corporation, Mitch honed his agile skills, successfully releasing core enterprise services for Windows Live, and transitioned from program manager to Agile Coach, helping others transition to agile practices. He became the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he coached customers on agile practices and adoption worldwide. As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, and his writings, including his new book The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for Your First Year.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Understanding Scrum: An Experiential Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
MasterControl, Inc.
Colby Litnak has worked in regulated software development for seven years architecting, designing, building, and testing a large-enterprise product. Colby is a key player in many of the quality improvement projects at MasterControl, Inc., including automating unit, integration, and functional tests; as well as implementing continuous deployment and increasing developer accountability. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker and a part-time software practice instructor. Colby can be found working on nerdy projects and solving problems with his engineering geekery in his spare time.
Concurrent Session:
Developer-driven Quality: Putting Developers in the Drivers’ Seat
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
IBM Rational
Monica Luke has almost twenty years of experience in software engineering, the past nine years with IBM Rational in the test organization. Monica has led several test automation teams, held the role of test automation architect, and earned an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for a widely used internal test automation framework at IBM. In 2010, she moved into the IBM Rational Strategic Offerings team and helped drive integrations to accelerate client value across the Collaborative Lifecycle Management tools including the recorded demos for the Five ALM Imperatives ( jazz.net/blog). Currently, Monica is leading the effort to accelerate agile testing in a collaborative lifecycle environment with Green Hat tester and VIE.
Concurrent Session:
Application Lifecycle Management Imperatives
Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:15 AM
QSM Associates
As managing partner at QSM Associates Inc., Michael Mah teaches, writes, and consults to technology companies on estimating and managing software projects—in-house, offshore, waterfall, or agile. With more than twenty-five years of experience, Michael and his partners at QSM have derived productivity patterns for thousands of projects worldwide across engineering and business applications. His work examines time-pressure dynamics of teams, and its role in project success and failure. Michael is the director of the Benchmarking Practice at Boston-based IT think-tank Cutter Consortium and is a mediator specializing in conflict resolution for technology projects. He can be reached at qsma.com.
Full-day Tutorial:
Agile Benchmarking and Release Estimation: Building Your Own Metrics Database
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Software Quality Engineering, Inc.
Joey McAllister is an editor with Software Quality Engineering, Inc. where he works on publications including Better Software magazine, StickyMinds.com, and TechWell.com. Joey enjoys interacting with authors to unearth informative and entertaining content, and thrills at the opportunity to make a good article even better. When he isn’t wordsmithing, he often can be found writing music that he uses to entertain his cats.
Bonus Session:
From Practitioner to Published Author: A Workshop About Writing About Software
Sunday, June 10, 2012 8:30 AM
Moser Consulting
A career tester, John McConda has been seeking to improve his skills and his teams' effectiveness for more than ten years. In his current role, John consults for a high-profile US Government contract, providing training and strategy as well as getting his hands dirty with exploratory testing, automation, and performance. He is an instructor for the Association for Software Testing and co-founder of WREST. John authored Busted: Five Myths of Testing Regulated Software, an article published in Better Software magazine (November/December 2010). He's also passionate about songwriting and being a dad. Contact John at john@mcconda.com or @mcconda.
Bonus Session:
The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST)
Friday, June 15, 2012 8:30 AM
Knowledge Bridge Partners
Kent McDonald is an author, speaker, and mentor who helps organizations understand their problems and implement solutions. His 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, nonprofit, and automotive. The coauthor of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility, Kent currently delivers business analysis training for B2T Training and shares his thoughts on raising the level of business analysis at Beyondreqs.com
Concurrent Session:
Context-driven Leadership: How to Ride a Bull through a China Shop
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:15 AM
PRICE Systems, LLC
With more than twenty-seven years of experience building cost models, Chief Scientist at PRICE Systems LLC Arlene Minkiewicz is a software measurement expert dedicated to finding creative solutions to help make software development professionals successful. Arlene leads the cost research activity for TruePlanning, the suite of cost estimating products that PRICE provides. She has developed several cost estimating models for software in both the commercial and aerospace domains. Arlene’s guidance and support have helped many clients develop best practices and establish estimating and measurement programs. Her recent accomplishments include research and development of cost solutions for service-oriented architecture projects.
Concurrent Session:
Cloud Computing 101: Concepts, Benefits, Challenges, and Costs
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:15 AM
The Agile Institute
Rob Myers is founder of Agile Institute and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative. Rob has twenty-five years of professional experience on software development teams, and has consulted for leading companies in aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors. He has been training and coaching organizations in Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) management and development practices since 1999. Courses include Essential Test-driven Development and Essential Agile Principles and Practices. Every course is a blend of enjoyable, interactive, hands-on labs—plus practical dialog toward preserving sanity in the workplace. Rob also performs short- and long-term coaching to encourage, solidify, and improve the team's agile practices.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Essential Test-driven Development
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Afternoon Tutorial:
The TDD/Legacy Code Dilemma: A Hands-on Workshop
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks' Chief Technology Officer Dr. Rebecca Parsons has more than twenty years of software development experience in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent Internet services. Rebecca has extensive experience leading the creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems. Before coming to ThoughtWorks, she was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida where she taught courses in compilers, program optimization, distributed computation, programming languages, theory of computation, and computational biology.
Afternoon Summit:
Want to Keep Your Clients Happy? Make Your Systems Enhanceable
Friday, June 15, 2012 1:30 PM
Comakers, Inc.
An agile process coach, product design process coach, and instructor, Jeff Patton uses his seventeen years of experience with a wide variety of products—from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records—to help organizations improve the way they work. Jeff balances concerns for delivery speed and efficiency with the need to build products that deliver exceptional value and marketplace success. Jeff is the founder and principle consultant for Comakers, Inc. His articles, essays, and presentations can be found at AgileProductDesign.com. His writings appear in Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, Alistair Cockburn’s book Crystal Clear, his new book User Story Mapping, and on StickyMinds.com. A Certified Scrum Trainer, Jeff received the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to agile development.
Full-day Tutorial:
Product Discovery with User Story Mapping
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
LitheSpeed
A leading proponent of agile methodologies and engineering practices, Bob Payne has twenty-five years of experience in project management, software development, engineering, and business. As an early adopter of Extreme Programming (XP), Bob has worked since 1999 exclusively as an agile coach and practitioner, mentoring and managing many projects ranging from five to more than one hundred people. As host of the AgileToolkit podcast, he has produced more than 115 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and agile practitioners. Co-founder of the Washington, DC, XP Users Group, Bob is passionate about training development teams in the use of agile engineering practices that allow them to deliver high quality software in an agile, iterative, and incremental manner.
Morning Tutorial:
A Visual Management System for Enterprise Agile Projects
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Accelinnova
An international leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-eight years of working inside and consulting with many organizations. She helps companies create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed—making them more productive, efficient, and profitable. Pollyanna is a founding partner of Accelinnova, president of Evolutionary Systems, and director of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership. She speaks and writes on topics of creating cultures of trust, leading collaboration, and business ethics. Her models are found in her book, Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility. She co-founded the Agile Leadership Network (ALN) and has chaired Leadership Summits in the US and England. Contact her at ppixton@accelinnova.com.
Afternoon Tutorial:
Six Free Ideas to Improve Agile Success
Monday, June 11, 2012 1:00 PM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Collaborating with Non-Collaborators
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Gap, Inc.
For more than thirty-five years Pat Reed has been solving technology problems, designing and delivering cutting edge solutions, developing leaders, and driving transformational change. Currently, as senior director of IT at Gap Inc., Pat is developing a world-class career management capability. During the past seven years she has led IT strategic planning, global PMO, portfolio management, risk and vendor management, and IT finance at Gap. Pat started her career as a behavioral psychologist and later transitioned to designing and developing criminal intelligence and forensic systems.
Morning Summit:
Crafting an Agile Career Framework
Friday, June 15, 2012 8:30 AM
Sonatype
Larry Roshfeld is a skilled, senior IT executive with more than twenty years of experience creating industry-leading software products for global markets. As executive vice president at Sonatype, Larry is responsible for the strategic direction, development, and delivery of products. He was instrumental in launching Sonatype Insight™, a suite of software and information services that enable organizations to make informed use of open-source components without disrupting the development process. Previously, Larry was an executive at Lotus Development, IBM, and Manugistics, and at a number of successful start-up companies.
Concurrent Session:
Is Open Source Too Open? Tips for Implementing a Governance Program
Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:00 PM
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
Johanna Rothman works with managers and leaders to identify problems and seize opportunities regarding how they manage their product development, focusing on removing management and technical staff impediments. Johanna is the author of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects; the 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management; Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management; and Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People. She is the technical editor of AgileJournal,com; writes for Stickyminds.com and Gantthead.com; and blogs at jrothman.com.
Keynote:
Influence and Authority: Using Your Personal Power to Get Things Done
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:45 PM
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
A senior business analyst at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Groton CT, Carol Scalice has several years of BA experience with specialties in enterprise business analysis and agile business analysis. Carol is a member of a BA leadership team at Pfizer and has led Pfizer's BA community of practice. In addition to spearheading Pfizer’s uptake of agile business analysis in research & development business technology, she has developed a reusable capability assessment framework that is used to drive IT portfolio decisions within Pfizer Global Research. Outside Pfizer, Carol is a founder and president of the IIBA® Pharma/Biotech Special Interest Group and a contributing author to the IIBA®’s Agile Extension to the BA Body of Knowledge.
Workshop:
Business Analysis and Requirements Workshop
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Rally Software Development
An agile coach with Rally Software in the UK, Karl Scotland is a versatile software practitioner with more than fifteen years of experience in development, project management, team leadership, coaching, and training. For the past ten years, he has helped teams apply agile methods and most recently has pioneered and advocated for the use of Kanban systems in software and systems development. A founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society, Karl previously championed agile and lean thinking with the BBC, Yahoo!, and EMC Consulting. Karl writes about his latest ideas on his blog.
Morning Tutorial:
Designing Development Process Transformations with Kanban Thinking
Monday, June 11, 2012 8:30 AM
Net Objectives
With more than forty years of experience, the founder and CEO of Net Objectives Alan Shalloway is an industry thought leader in lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum, and agile design. Alan helps companies transition enterprise-wide to lean and agile methods, and teaches courses in these areas. He is the primary author of Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, Design Patterns Explained, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. Co-founder and board member for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium, Alan is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide.
Morning Tutorial:
Scaling Agile with the Lessons of Lean Product Development Flow
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Afternoon Tutorial:
Design Patterns Explained: From Analysis through Implementation
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 1:00 PM
Concurrent Session:
Avoiding Overdesign and Underdesign
Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:15 AM
Microsoft
Ravi Shanker has more than seventeen years of experience in the software industry, as a developer, support engineer, escalation engineer, and program manager. At Microsoft Corporation for more than thirteen years, Ravi is a principal program manager in the Visual Studio Test and Lab management team and was involved in the shipping of Microsoft Test Professional 2010. As part of the next version of Visual Studio, Ravi is working on testing and feedback solutions that target software applications. He is passionate about delivering products that solve real customer problems and has a patent filed in capturing rich feedback on working software.
Morning Tutorial:
Experience an Iteration: The Joys of Agile Done Right
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Micro Focus
The director of product strategy for the Borland Solutions Division of Micro Focus, Clint Sprauve provides the strategic direction for the Silk functional and performance testing solutions. Clint has more than seventeen years of experience in the software quality assurance industry. Previously he was the senior product marketing manager for the Silk Testing Solutions at Borland Software and Segue Software, and served as a senior technical sales engineer for both companies. Clint has been an independent consultant, specializing in test management and test automation.
Concurrent Session:
The Mis-education of Software Testers: Rethinking and Relearning Software Quality
Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:15 AM
Intel
John Terzakis has more than twenty-five years of experience developing, writing, and testing software. With Intel for thirteen years, John is currently a staff engineer working with teams on enhancing product requirements to reduce planning and development times, reduce defects, and improve overall product quality. He is a certified Intel instructor for Requirements Engineering courses. John’s prior experience includes director and manager roles with Shiva, Racal InterLan, and Dataproducts. He was also a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs.
Concurrent Session:
EARS: The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:15 AM
Leading Software Maniacs
Ken Whitaker of Leading Software Maniacs™ (LSM) has more than twenty-five years of software development executive leadership and training experience in a variety of technology roles and industries. He has led many commercial software development teams. Ken is an active PMI® member, Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified, and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM). Sources for LSM’s presentations come from case studies, personal leadership experience, the PMI Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), and Ken’s leadership books Managing Software Maniacs, Principles of Software Development Leadership, and I’m Not God, I’m Just a Project Manager. Learn more about LSM, a P.M.I. Registered Education Provider, at leadingswmaniacs.com and pmchalkboard.com.
Full-day Tutorial:
Deliver Projects On Time, Every Time
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Concurrent Session:
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Project Managers
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
Perfecto Mobile
CEO and founder of Perfecto Mobile Eran Yaniv has years of experience as an executive in the mobile and QA industry, bringing hands-on experience in enterprise mobile quality. Previously Eran was the vice president of product marketing for Comverse America, general manager of the Comverse Mobile Data Division, and general manager of the Valisys Quality Management business unit at Tecnomatix. As an HP partner, he is closely connected to the HP Software ALM team jointly developing mobile testing solutions. Eran is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetings. For more information visit perfectomobile.com and their LinkedIn Group at Mobile Testing Center of Excellence.
Concurrent Session:
Selecting the Right Mobile Testing Solution: Practical Considerations and Proven Practices
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:30 PM
Hewlett-Packard
A developer of large-scale software/firmware for twenty-two years, Mike Young began his career developing satellite control systems for Hughes Aircraft Company. He then moved on to developing embedded applications for the LaserJet products at HP where he was a key leader in HP’s enterprise-wide agile transformation. The co¬author of A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, Mike spends most of his time finding waste in development and test; then, as a ScrumMaster, he guides the organization on a path to incrementally improve. Mike is a proponent of adopt-as-you-go agile practices—start small, create success, then listen to those in the trenches to keep improving.
Morning Summit:
HP LaserJet Transformation: Using Outlandish Ideas to Deliver Phenomenal Enterprise-wide Results
Friday, June 15, 2012 9:45 AM
The Kroger Company
Leading software quality assurance teams for the past eleven years, Reán Young is a software solutions manager at Kroger where she has managed quality teams across departments such as pharmacy, eCommerce, transportation, store systems, and mobile apps. Reán began her career as a software developer and was first exposed to quality on a project for the Department of the Defense. She has worked in a wide variety of industries—from telecommunications and insurance to automotive software—and has been involved in building quality centers of excellence in China and India. A certified ScrumMaster, Reán enjoys working with schools and speaking to parent groups about the changing world of technology.
Concurrent Session:
When the Pressure Is On: A Risk-based Approach to Project Management
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:00 PM
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