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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 at david.anderson@valtech.com. |
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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 mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com. |
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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 (GIS). |
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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 www.lindarising.org. |
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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 theagileengineer.com. |
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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 michele@sligerconsulting.com. |
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Data Transfer Solutions
Chris Spagnuolo is a senior project manager and agile evangelist with Data Transfer Solutions in Fort Collins, Colorado, a geographic information systems (GIS) industry software solutions provider. 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.taba | | | |
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