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Valtech, Inc. and Modus Cooperandi, Inc.
David Anderson is chief process scientist with Valtech and president
of Modus Cooperandi, a management consulting firm based in Seattle, Washington.
He has many years of management experience leading teams on agile development projects,
most recently as senior director for Software Engineering at Corbis in Seattle.
David was a founder of the agile movement through his involvement in the creation
of feature-driven development in Singapore in the late 1990s. He can be contacted
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Net Objectives
Guy Beaver has over twenty-four years of experience in IT and
software delivery, focused in financial services and aerospace industries such as
Vanguard, Critical Point Group, NASA, G&A Technical Software, and the US Naval
Research Laboratory. He began his career as a developer and served as delivery manager
for multi-million dollar projects. He has managed IT organizations as director and
CIO. He trains and consults business and technical teams with a practical application
of Lean principles that allows Agile and Scrum teams to scale and integrate, while
remaining tightly coupled with high ROI activities. |
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Independent Consultant
With twenty years of experience in the software industry, working with both startup
and established companies, Certified Scrum Practitioner Steve Berczuk
leads and coaches teams in agile software development practices. In addition to
developing software, he helps teams effectively use software configuration management
(SCM). Steve is co-author of Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective
Teamwork, Practical Integration. He lives in Boston and his Web site is
www.berczuk.com. |
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Mountain Goat Software
A Certified Scrum trainer, Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain
Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. He
is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning and User Stories Applied
for Agile Software Development, as well as books on Java and C++ programming.
With more than twenty years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology
executive in companies of various sizes—from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent
magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of the Scrum
Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached at
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Pre-conference Tutorial (MG) - Experiencing
Agility from Requirements to Planning Monday, November
10, 2008 8:30 a.m.
Pre-conference Tutorial (MM) - ADAPTing
to Agile: A Guide to Transitioning Monday, November
10, 2008 1:00 p.m.
Pre-conference Tutorial (TG) - Getting
Agile with Scrum Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:30
a.m.
Pre-conference Tutorial (TQ) - Agile
Estimating and Planning Tuesday, November 11, 2008
1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Class (T7) - Assessing
Your Agility Thursday, November
13, 2008 10:00 a.m. |
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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. Mike has a background in traditional project management
but has worked primarily with agile methodologies for the past four years. Mike
is a certified PMP Project Manager and a Certified ScrumMaster. Mike co-created
the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification. He holds this certification at the
Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner levels and was recently named an honorary
member of the DSDM consortium. Mike is currently on the board of APLN as Treasurer. |
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Broadsword Solutions
Jeff Dalton is a business owner, author, and consultant with over
twenty years of technology and software process improvement experience. His software
engineering and process improvement career includes several companies, including
Electronic Data Systems, Ernst & Young, and RL Polk where he served as Director
of IT Re-Engineering & Quality. His experience includes the extensive use of
the CMMI®, Six Sigma, and ISO9001 as frameworks for software process improvement.
The roles led to the CMMI® authorizations he holds today and the launching of
a consulting firm in late 2004. Jeff lives in Michigan with his family where he
is an instrument-rated pilot and experimental airplane builder. |
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Agile Experience
Based in the UK with eight years of agile experience, Rachel Davies
provides expert coaching to teams in agile software development techniques, including
test-driven development, heartbeat retrospectives, and planning with user stories.
She is passionate about agile software development because it increases the chance
of successful projects in the face of complex problems. A past chair of the Agile
Alliance, Rachel is internationally recognized in the agile community as a frequent
presenter at industry conferences worldwide. You can contact Rachel at rachel@agilexp.com. |
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N-BRAIN, Inc.
John De Goes has been actively involved in the field of software
development for more than twenty years, working as a software developer, consultant,
coach, author, and instructor. Six years ago, John discovered agile software development
and fell in love with the agile values of individuals and interactions, working
software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Today, John spends his
days as president of N-BRAIN. As the lead interface designer and usability expert
for several software applications, including N-BRAIN's UNA, John has a passion for
humane user-interfaces, which treat their users with care and concern, while trying
to stay out of their way as much as possible. |
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Airlines Reporting Corporation
Steven Driver is a development manager with Airlines Reporting
Corporation (ARC). He has over fifteen years of experience in project management
and received his PMP in 2005. Steven is also a certified ScrumMaster and has helped
lead the implementation of Scrum within the ARC development organization. Steven
has experience in the management and development of software projects on mainframe,
distributed, and Web-based systems. During Steven’s professional career, he
has designed and developed financial, eCommerce payment, Internet Web-based reporting
systems, customer resource management systems, and geographic information systems
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EBG Consulting
Principal Consultant of EBG Consulting, Ellen Gottesdiener helps
business and technical teams get product requirements right so their projects start
smart and deliver the right product at the right time. An agile coach and trainer
with a passion about agile requirements, she works with large, complex products
and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product
goals. Ellen is the author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining
Needs and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger. Ellen writes
articles, speaks, and advises at industry conferences, and provides training seminars
to both traditional and agile clients. Contact her at
www.ebgconsulting.com. |
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Renaissance Software Consulting
James Grenning is the founder of Renaissance Software Consulting,
where he trains, coaches, and consults worldwide. With more than thirty years of
software development experience, both technical and managerial, James brings a wealth
of knowledge, skill, and creativity to software development teams. James’
mission is to bring improved technical and management practices to development teams.
As his professional roots are in embedded software, he is leading the way to introduce
agile development practices to that challenging world. James was one of the original
extreme programming coaches and trainers and invented Planning Poker, an agile estimating
technique used around the world. He participated in the creation of the Manifesto
for Agile Software Development. |
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Agile For All
Bob Hartman has over thirty years of experience developing software.
Since that time, he has served in almost every role in the software industry, including
developer, tester, documentation writer, trainer, product manager, project manager,
business analyst, senior software engineer, development manager, and executive.
Over the past ten years, he has grown from being an early adopter of agile to his
current status as a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Practitioner
(CSP). He recently founded, Agile For All, to promote the use of agile development
methods. Bob teaches a variety of courses, including Lean-Agile Testing, Agile for
Teams, Agile Business Analysis, Agile Project Management, Agile for Enterprises,
and Lean Software Development. |
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VersionOne
V. Lee Henson's experience spans a broad array of technical software
production roles and responsibilities. He has worked with hundreds of teams to assist
them in successful implementation of thousands of projects. His client list includes
Fortune 500 companies, government sector projects, small and large software production
facilities, and multiple successful large scale eCommerce implementations. His unique
blend of recent real-world experience combined with the ability to drive home highly
technical concepts in an easy to understand digestible manner make him an amazing
resource to get any team at any level best focused on project related initiatives. |
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The Pragmatic Programmers
In the industry since the early 1980s, Andy Hunt is one of the
seventeen founders of the Agile Alliance, which launched the Agile Manifesto and
the agile movement. Andy is a programmer, consultant, author, publisher, and co-founder
of the Pragmatic Bookshelf. He co-authored the best-selling book The Pragmatic Programmer
and five others, including the recent award-winning Practices of an Agile Developer.
At conferences and private corporations throughout the US and Europe, Andy is a
frequent speaker on topics ranging from software development to management and cognition.
When not working, Andy is an active musician composing, recording, and playing trumpet,
flugelhorn, and piano. |
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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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Xerox
Michael Kirby is a software development manager and architect
at Xerox Corporation. He has spent the last seventeen years as an engineer, senior
engineer, and architect designing production printers. These products blend software,
electrical, and mechanical engineering into a highly integrated system. Recently,
he has led his organization's push into lean and agile software development techniques
in the Print Engine Controls software development team. This team is responsible
for embedded real-time, diagnostics, and UI software for high-end black and white
and color production printers. |
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Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.
An agile practitioner and trainer, Mitch Lacey has managed plan-driven
and agile projects for more than twelve years. Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft
Corporation, where he released core enterprise services for Windows Live. While
at Microsoft, he transitioned from program manager to agile coach, working hand-in-hand
with groups throughout their transition to agile practices. As a Certified Scrum
Trainer and a registered Project Management Professional, Mitch shares his experience
in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, agile coaching
engagements, conference presentations, blogs, and white papers. Mitch is currently
writing a book, Adopting Agile: 101 Tips for Surviving Your First Year,
scheduled for publication in 2009. |
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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. Michael 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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testingReflections.com
Antony Marcano has thirteen years of industry experience specializing
in software testing, the last eight of which as a practitioner on agile projects.
Now, more often as a coach and trainer, Antony helps teams evolve their skills and
abilities to attain the benefits offered by agile practices. Antony’s specialities
include User Stories, Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Test-Driven Development.
Antony is also creator and curator of testingReflections.com, one of the most influential
agile testing sites on the Internet for developers and testers, and is a Technical
Editor for Better Software magazine. You can contact Antony at antony.marcano@testingReflections.com. |
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Exampler Consulting
Brian Marick (marick@exampler.com,
www.exampler.com) was
a programmer, tester, and team lead in the ‘80s, a testing consultant in the
‘90s, and is an agile consultant in this decade. He was one of the authors
of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and is a past chair of
the board of the Agile Alliance. Brian is the author of two books—The Craft
of Software Testing and Everyday Scripting with Ruby—and
a number of articles. His consulting concentrates on blending formerly-independent
test teams into agile projects, the use of executable examples (a.k.a, tests) to
drive creation of products, and helping programmers learn their craft by pairing
with them. |
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Solution Frameworks, Inc.
Gerard Meszaros is an independent software development consultant
with twenty-five years of experience in software and nearly a decade of experience
applying agile methods. A leader in test automation patterns, refactoring of software
and tests, and design for testability, Gerard has applied automated unit and acceptance
testing on projects ranging from full-on eXtreme Programming to traditional waterfall
development. He is an expert in implementing and customizing agile methods, such
as Scrum and eXtreme Programming, and is a proponent of including usability practices
on agile projects. A frequent presenter at major conferences, Gerard authored xUnit
Test Patterns–Refactoring Test Code, which recently won a Jolt Productivity
Award. |
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Microsoft® Corporation
Ade Miller is currently the software development lead for Microsoft’s®
patterns & practices group (p&p) where he manages several agile teams working
on a variety of projects. He also led the development of patterns & practices’
Web Services Software Factory: Modeling Edition. Before joining p&p, Ade was
a developer and then development lead on Visual Studio® Tools for Office 2005
and 2008. Prior to joining Microsoft®, Ade worked in a variety of development
environments, including start-ups, consultancy, and Web publishing. His primary
interest is in improving software development practices. He spends much of his time
trying to figure out what being “agile” really means. |
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Borland Software Corporation
Pete Morowski is the senior vice president of research and development
at Borland Software Corporation. In this role, Pete is responsible for evolving
Borland’s products and technology investments into highly-innovative, next
generation Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions that address the company’s
vision for software delivery optimization. Prior to joining Borland, Pete served
as the vice president of software at Dell, Inc. In this role, he was responsible
for creating Dell’s first enterprise software organization, where he set product
strategy, developed organizational structure and established all internal software
practices for the company. Before Dell, Pete served as vice president and chief
technology officer at IBM/Tivoli Systems, Inc.
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Net Objectives
Rob Myers has over twenty years of professional experience in
software development, including projects for industry leaders in medical, aerospace,
and financial services. Starting in the late 90's, Rob traveled throughout the US
and abroad assisting teams with agile practices and object-oriented design techniques.
Rob is now a senior consultant/instructor at Net Objectives. He teaches Test-Driven
Development, Design Patterns Explained, Implementing Scrum for Your Team, Lean-Agile
Testing, and other courses. Rob brings to each classroom his passion for lean software
development, team development, and sane work environments. |
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Headwaters, Inc.
Niel Nickolaisen is the CIO and director of strategic planning
at Headwaters, Inc. He 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. He writes the Practical
CIO column for the CIO Leadership Network and a “how to” column for
Search CIO. He is the author of an Addison-Wesley book on Agile Leadership scheduled
for publication in 2009. He is one of the founders of Accelinnova, a think tank
focused on improving organizational and IT agility. |
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Valtech Technologies
An IT professional since 1977, Dave Nicolette has been heavily
involved with agile software development since 2002. He is a senior consultant with
Valtech Technologies where he serves as an agile trainer, agile team coach and mentor,
and ScrumMaster for clients and for internal development teams. He is active in
local user groups and the online agile community, and appears as a speaker and workshop
facilitator at industry conferences. His main professional interest is in helping
drive industry adoption of agile and lean principles and practices, especially organizational
transformation of large enterprises. |
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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 1980’s. 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 1990’s, 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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Independent Consultant
For the past twelve years, Jeff Patton has designed and developed
software on a wide variety of projects from on line 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. Jeff has specialized in the application
of user centered design techniques to improve agile requirements, planning, and
products. Some of his recent writing on the subject can be found at www.agileproductdesign.com
and Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear. His forthcoming book gives tactical
advice to those seeking to deliver useful, usable, and valuable software.. |
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Accelinnova
An international collaborative leadership expert, Pollyanna Pixton developed the
models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-five years
of working in 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 forthcoming book, Stand Back and Deliver: Tools For Leading
Agility due out in early 2009. She co-founded the Agile Project Leadership
Network (APLN) and chaired APLN Leadership Summits in London, Minneapolis, and Orlando.
Contact her at ppixton@accelinnova.com. |
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AccuRev
Damon Poole is founder and CTO of AccuRev, a leading provider
of agile tools. Damon has eighteen years of software development methodology and
process improvement experience spanning the gamut from small collocated teams to
10,000-person global development shops. He writes frequently about agile development
and, as one of AccuRev's product owners, works closely with AccuRev’s customers
developing and implementing state of the art agile techniques which scale to large
distributed teams. Damon has spoken at SD Best Practices, Software Test & Performance,
SCQAA, ACDM Conference, CCIUG, Q-Con, and Deep Lean. His Agile Development Thoughts
blog is at http://damonpoole.blogspot.com. |
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Poppendieck, LLC
Mary Poppendieck has been in the Information Technology industry
for more than thirty years. She has managed software development, supply chain management,
manufacturing operations, and new product development. Mary spearheaded the implementation
of a Just-in-Time system in a 3M videotape manufacturing plant and led new product
development teams, commercializing products ranging from digital controllers to
3M Light Fiber™. A popular writer and speaker, Mary is co-author of Lean Software
Development, which was awarded the Software Development Productivity Award,
and a sequel Implementing Lean Software Development. |
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Net Objectives
A fellow consultant with Net Objectives, Ken Pugh has more than
one-third of a century of experience in software development—from gathering
requirements for stock market analysis to testing real-time radar systems. Ken consults,
trains, testifies, and mentors from London to Sydney on agile processes and technology
topics ranging from object-oriented design and test-driven development to Linux/Unix.
He has written several programming books, including the Jolt Award winner, Prefactoring,
and Interface Oriented Design. When not computing, Ken enjoys snowboarding,
windsurfing, biking, and hiking the Appalachian Trail. Ken can be reached at ken.pugh@netobjectives.com. |
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Independent Consultant
J. B. Rainsberger helps software organizations satisfy their customers
and the businesses they support. Expert at delivering successful software, he writes,
teaches, and speaks about why delivering better software is important—but
not enough. He helps clients improve their bottom line by coaching teams as well
as leading change programs. J. B. helps software organizations get off the treadmill
of overcommitment and underdelivery, addressing all aspects of software delivery,
including understanding the business, gelling the team, and writing great code.
Learn more about how J. B. will inspire your software organization at jbrains.ca, in his IEEE Software magazine
column "Not Just Coding," at conferences worldwide, or by writing him
at get.started@jbrains.ca. |
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6th Sense Analytics
Jared Richardson, co-author of Ship It! A Practical Guide
to Successful Software Projects, is a regular conference speaker and an agile
coach at 6th Sense Analytics. Jared has been in the industry for more than fifteen
years as a consultant, developer, tester, and manager. Until recently, he was an
independent consultant focused on helping teams build better software. He's now
bringing that same focus to 6th Sense Analytics and its clients, using both the
6th Sense toolset and his unique perspective. Jared can be found online at www.AgileArtisans.com and www.6sa.com/blog. |
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Independent Consultant
Linda Rising has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the
field of object-based design metrics and a background that 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
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Rally Software Development
Ronica Roth is an agile coach and consultant with Rally Software.
Her ten-year software career is rooted in facilitating clear communication and close
collaboration across disciplines, resulting in software that more often meets customer
needs. She has extensive experience discovering, evolving, and managing software
requirements, which provides product owner expertise and a deep understanding of
the customer side of agile software development. Her passion for helping people
work together creatively and efficiently led her to embrace agile practices. She
has guided many organizations—both large and small—through successful
adoption of agile principles and best practices. Ronica is a Certified ScrumMaster-Practitioner
and Certified JAD Facilitator.
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Rothman Consulting Group
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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Innolution
Kenny Rubin provides agile and Scrum-related training and coaching.
He has been successful as a developer, product owner, and ScrumMaster on numerous
agile and Scrum development projects. Also, he has held numerous executive management
roles, including CEO, COO, VP of engineering, VP of product management and VP of
professional services. Kenny is a Certified Scrum Trainer and has trained over 10,000
people on Agile/Scrum, Smalltalk development, managing object-oriented projects,
and transition management. He has coached over 200 companies ranging from startups
to Fortune 10. Kenny is the former Managing Director of the Scrum Alliance, a 35,000
member organization focused on the world-wide adoption of Scrum. |
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ThoughtWorks
Pramod Sadalage is the co-author of the 2007 Jolt Productivity
Award winning Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Development
and author of Recipes for Continuous Database Integration. Pramod works
as a DBA and developer on large custom-developed applications that use agile methodologies.
While on these projects, he pioneered the practices and processes of agility in
the database. Pramod writes and speaks about these concepts to help those interested
in using agile practices on databases. He has written and presented about database
administration on XP projects, the adoption of agile processes with databases, and
the impact of agile practices on database administration and design. Pramod is the
owner and founder of the agile databases Yahoo! group. |
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Net Objectives
Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With
more than thirty-five 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 is currently writing a book on Lean Anti-Patterns. |
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Dominion Digital
Ryan Shriver is a managing consultant with Dominion Digital, a
Virginia-based process and technology consulting firm, where he leads their IT Performance
Improvement solution (www.dominiondigital.com).
Ryan started using XP as a developer in 2000 and since then has primarily worked
in software architecture roles, including over three years as lead architect of
an enterprise product using agile. Ryan continues to push the boundaries of agile
thinking, in recent years primarily focusing on integrating principles and techniques
from Evo with agile. With degrees in computer science and business, Ryan’s
pursuits range from agile engineering to measurable business value of agile methods.
He writes on these and other topics at
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Sliger Consulting, Inc.
The co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility,
Michele Sliger has extensive experience in agile software development,
having transitioned to Scrum and XP practices in 2000 after starting her career
following the traditional waterfall approach. 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
helping organizations prepare for the changes that agile brings. She is a certified
Project Management Professional (PMP®) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).
Michele can be reached at
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Rally Software Development
Chris Spagnuolo Chris’ expertise includes
enterprise GIS system architecture and design, database design and development,
and application development. Chris is a strong advocate and evangelist for agile
practices in software development. He is the author of a widely read blog on agile
practices called Chris Spagnuolo’s GeoScrum and is a frequent contributor
to Agile Commons and other agile blog and discussion sites. He is also a Certified
ScrumMaster. |
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Rally Software Development
An agile coach with Rally Software Development, Jean Tabaka has
more than twenty-five years of experience in IT. After studying DSDM in the late
1990s, Jean 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
jean.tabaka@rallydev.com. |
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Rally Software Development
Rachel Weston is an agile coach with Rally Software. She has over
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. 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 enable for software
development teams and their customers. She is also a Certified ScrumMaster and Certified
Scrum Practitioner. |
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