Mike Cohn
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 Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum, 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 mountaingoatsoftware.com. 
 

Mike Cottmeyer
Pillar Technology

Mike Cottmeyer is the vice-president and general manager of Pillar Technology Southeast, a leading provider of agile transformation services that help companies develop the technical practices and leadership competencies required for sustainable organizational change. Prior to joining Pillar, Mike was a product consultant and agile evangelist for VersionOne. Mike has twenty years of experience leading IT initiatives using a combination of traditional, agile, and lean project management best practices. A certified PMP Project Manager and a certified ScrumMaster, Mike speaks internationally on the topic of agile project management and writes for several blogs including leadingagile.com, blog.versionone.com, and occasionally agilesoftwaredevelopment.com.  
 

Lisa Crispin
ePlan Services

An agile testing coach and practitioner, Lisa Crispin has co-authored Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (with Janet Gregory) and Testing Extreme Programming (with Tip House). She contributed to Beautiful Testing (O’Reilly, 2009). She specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value and guide development with business-facing tests. For the past ten years, Lisa has worked as a tester on agile teams developing Web applications in Java and .NET. She regularly contributes articles to Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. For more about Lisa’s work, visit lisacrispin.com.
 

Tracy DeDore
Hewlett-Packard

Tracy DeDore is the Agile Solution Marketing Manager for HP’s BTO Software Application organization.  She is a twenty-four year veteran of HP and has held a variety of software-related roles including software programming, 2nd level software support and software product marketing, as well as ten years managing network and mobility solution development and marketing.  
 

Christine DelPrete
Amirsys

Christine DelPrete is a senior program manager at Amirsys, a provider of decision support software to medical professionals. For more than twenty years she has worked closely with technical, product, and executive teams in software, identifying strategic business interests, prioritizing product portfolios, and bringing products to market. Christine has a strong background of creating high-performance teams and uses the principles of collaboration, mentoring, business agility, agile product design, and agile project management to optimize the delivery of business value. She is dedicated to building high-performance, collaborative teams that are focused on delivering great products to market. Contact Christine at xine.delprete@gmail.com.

Esther Derby
Esther Derby Associates, Inc.

Esther Derby works with individuals, teams, and managers to improve their ability to deliver valuable software. Esther is recognized as a leader in the human-side of software development, including management, systems-thinking, organizational change, collaboration, team building, and retrospectives. She's been a programmer, system manager, manager, and internal consultant. Since 1997, she's run her own consulting firm, Esther Derby and Associates, in Minneapolis, MN.  Esther is the author of more than one-hundred articles, and co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. Currently, she's writing a book to help managers see and improve the work environment. She's a founder of the AYE Conference and is serving her second term as a member of the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance.   
 

Colin Doyle
MKS, Inc.

Colin Doyle has more than twenty-five years of experience in systems engineering and software development in fields as diverse as avionics, satellite communications, medical devices, precision laser systems, and enterprise content management. He has worked on both plan-driven and agile projects, ranging from classic waterfall following the DOD-STD-2167A and DO-178B standards to Scrum and Extreme Programming. Colin is a customer requirements manager at MKS, where he manages the development of the MKS Integrity platform for application lifecycle management, focusing on processes and practices. As part of that role, he is actively involved with agile user groups in both Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto.  
 

Dale Emery
DHE

For thirty years Dale Emery has worked in the software industry as a developer, manager, process steward, trainer, and consultant in both IT organizations and software product development companies. He helps people apply the agile values of communication, feedback, simplicity, courage, and respect to all areas of software development. Dale's combination of deep technical expertise and extensive organizational development experience makes him particularly effective in working with software teams. In 2007 he received the Ward Cunningham Gentle Voice of Reason Award, which the Agile Alliance created to recognize Dale's unique contributions to the agile community. He holds two patents for his software designs.
 

Michael Feathers
Object Mentor

With more than twenty years of experience developing world-class software solutions, Michael Feathers is a senior member of the Object Mentor team providing training, coaching, and mentoring services in Agile/XP programming practices, test-driven development, refactoring, object-oriented design, Java, C#, and C++. His key passion is helping teams surmount problems in large legacy code bases and connecting with what makes developing software fun and enriching. Prior to joining Object Mentor, Michael designed a proprietary programming language and compiler as well as a large multi-platform class library and a framework for instrumentation control. Michael is an active member of the Agile/XP community.
 

Abby Fichtner
ATSC

Abby Fichtner writes The Hacker Chick Blog, produces The Boston SPIN newsletter, and is a regular contributor to local software groups and developer sites. Since 1994 she’s been developing software, wearing every hat imaginable (albeit with a particular passion for programming). Abby is committed to creating applications that give software a good name—and helping others do the same. When she’s not developing software herself, she’s helping organizations ranging from commercial startups to government agencies improve the way they develop—often sitting down and writing code alongside them. She shares her thoughts on software, teams, and ninjas at: thehackerchickblog.com. 
 

Andre Frank
Liquidnet Holdings, Inc.

Andre Frank is a part of the Global Business Process group at Liquidnet Holdings, Inc., which facilitates large-block trades among asset management firms across thirty markets throughout the world. Responsible for strategic business and product initiatives, Andre leads the implementation and evolution of the agile methodology within Liquidnet. With more than fifteen years of experience in the financial services and technology area, he has successfully created and directed numerous business ventures in Europe and the United States. Prior to joining Liquidnet, Andre worked in both startups and large companies, including Fidessa/LatentZero, Deloitte & Touche, and XCOM AG. Andre brings a wealth of expertise and experience in business development, project/program management, product delivery, and process optimization.
 

Bob Galen
iContact

A methodologist, practitioner, and coach based in Cary NC, Bob Galen helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift toward Scrum and other agile methods and practices. He is currently the Director of R&D and an agile coach at iContact, an email marketing SaaS provider. President and principal consultant for RGCG, LLC, Bob is also a Certified Scrum Master Practicing (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. Bob authored Software Endgames: Eliminating Defects, Controlling Change, and the Countdown to On-Time Delivery and Scrum Product Ownership – Balancing Value from the Inside Out. He may be reached at bob@rgalen.com or at rgalen.com.
 

Julie Gardiner
Grove Consultants

With nearly twenty years of experience in the IT industry, Julie Gardiner has spent time as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA, and project manager. She has first-hand experience as a test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager within a variety of different industries and lifecycles. At UK-based Grove Consultants, Julie provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues.

Mary Gorman
EBG Consulting

Mary Gorman, CBAP®, CSM, and Senior Associate at EBG Consulting, assists business and technical teams in building the right product through exploring, analyzing, and confirming their requirements so the teams deliver value at the right time. Mary has more than twenty-five years of experience as a consultant, mentor, trainer, facilitator, process engineer, developer, and analyst. In addition to serving on the IIBA® Body of Knowledge® Committee, Mary helped create the certification exam for the Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®). Mary presents seminars, writes articles on requirements topics for the business analysis community, facilitates requirements workshops, and speaks at conferences and IIBA chapter meetings.
 

Ellen Gottesdiener
EBG Consulting
 
EBG Consulting, Inc. principal consultant and founder Ellen Gottesdiener is an internationally recognized facilitator, trainer, speaker, and expert on requirements development, product chartering, retrospectives, and collaborative workshops. As an agile coach and trainer, Ellen has a passion for agile requirements and works with large, complex products and helps elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals. Author of two acclaimed books, Ellen delivers training, facilitation, and consulting services globally; speaks at industry conferences; writes articles and tweets; and is an IIBA (BABOK™) expert reviewer and contributor. Her free eNewsletter Success with Requirements offers practical guidance and news, and her Web site a variety of useful practitioner resources.  
 

Payson Hall
Catalysis Group

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.
 

Lee Henson
VersionOne

Certified ScrumMaster Trainer Lee Henson is a senior agile mentor and product expert at VersionOne. As the author of the AgileDad blog and Agile Mentor Newsletter at blog.agiledad.com, he may be best known to the outside world as AgileDad. Lee has worked hands on as a GUI Web developer, quality assurance analyst, automated test engineer, senior product manager, senior project manager, ScrumMaster, agile coach, consultant, and ADDIE training professional. He is currently writing a book to help teams at any level find the keys to increased productivity and unlock the moments that are critical to organizational success.

David Hussman
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 fulltime 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.
 
 

Karen N. Johnson
Independent Consultant

Karen N. Johnson is an independent software test consultant. She is an international keynote speaker and speaks at conferences frequently. She is a contributing author to the book, Beautiful Testing released by O’Reilly publishers in the Fall of 2009.  She has published numerous articles on software testing as well as recorded webcasts. She blogs about her experiences with software testing. You can visit her website at: karennjohnson.com. She is also the co-founder of the WREST workshop. More information on WREST can be found at: wrestworkshop.com/Home.html.

Andy Kaufman
Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, Inc.

Andy Kaufman works with people around the world who are struggling with how to lead teams and deliver projects. He helps professionals get focused, take action, and deliver results. His keynotes, workshops, and executive coaching services have reached tens of thousands of people from hundreds of companies, helping them deliver their projects, become more confident leaders, and achieve the results they desire while maintaining a balanced life. Andy is the author of three books: Navigating the Winds of Change: Staying on Course in Business & in Life, Shining the Light on The Secret, and an e-book entitled How to Organize Your Inbox & Get Rid of E-Mail Clutter. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and host of The People and Projects Podcast. You can learn more about Andy at i-leadonline.com.

Mike Kelly
Developer Town

Mike Kelly is a partner at Developer Town, a venture development firm. Developer Town is a group of developers who love to take technology from concept to first customers. Mike's focus is software testing, he is most passionate about exploratory testing, performance testing, and testing in an agile environment. Mike is a past president and director for the Association for Software Testing. He writes and speaks about topics in software testing and is a regular contributor to SearchSoftwareQuality.com. You can find links to Mike's published works, his blog, and more information about how venture development works at his website, MichaelDKelly.com. 

Mitch Lacey
Mitch Lacey and Associates, Inc.

Mitch Lacey has managed numerous plan-driven and agile projects over the past twelve years. 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 in their transition to agile practices. He later 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 Scrum: A Survival Guide, to be published in 2010. 

Beth Layman
Layman & Layman

A successful process improvement consultant, facilitator, teacher, and coach with more than twenty-five years of experience in the high tech sector, Beth Layman is an authority on measurement and process improvement. Her wide-ranging experience includes commercial, government, aerospace, and product software organizations. Beth provides training and interactive workshops, assessments, management consulting, and coaching in areas such as process definition, improvement, software measurement, project management, portfolio management, and software quality assurance. Beth is an SEI Authorized CMMI® Lead Appraiser and is co-author of Practical Software Measurement: Objective Information for Decision Makers. 

Tim Lister
Atlantic Systems Guild

A software consultant at the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. based in New York City, Tim Lister divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Tim is a co-author with his Guild partners of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior. He is co-author with Tom DeMarco of Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, the Jolt Award winner as General Computing Book of the Year for 2003-2004, and Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, now available in fourteen languages. Tim is currently a member of the Cutter IT Trends Council, the IEEE, and the ACM. He is in his twenty-third year as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services. 

 

Monica Luke
IBM Rational Software

Monica Luke has more than sixteen years of experience building test automation. For the past seven years, Monica has worked for IBM Rational, leading globally distributed test automation development teams in building test solutions for several IBM Rational products. As Test Automation Architect, Monica has developed a framework and architecture for building reusable automation assets in use by many teams within IBM. Her current role includes organizing a team to build test automation for new Jazz-based products jazz.net. 
 

Michael Mah 
QSM Associates, Inc.

As managing partner at QSM Associates Inc., Michael Mah teaches, writes, and consults on estimating and managing software projects, whether 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. He is the director of the Benchmarking Practice at the Cutter Consortium, a Boston-based IT think-tank; served as past editor of the IT Metrics Strategies publication; and is a mediator specializing in dispute resolution for technology projects. Michael lives in the mountains of western Massachusetts with his two children. He can be reached at qsma.com. 

Ryan Martens
Rally Software Development

The CTO and founder of Rally Software, Ryan Martens is a lean/agile consultant, blogger, portfolio manager, technical operations manager, and senior sales resource. He began his career in software in 1985 while in college and has broad industry experience with BEA Systems, US West/Qwest Communications, BDM, and three start-ups. Ryan is known for his triple bottom-line thinking as well as his farm fresh eggs, and his love of skiing, fishing, and biking with his family in Colorado.
 

Robert C. Martin
Object Mentor

A software professional since 1970, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) is founder and president of Object Mentor, Inc., which offers process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting, training, and skill development services to major corporations worldwide. Bob has published dozens of articles in various trade journals, is a regular speaker at international conferences, and has authored and edited numerous books including Extreme Programming in Practice; Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices; and UML for Java Programmers. A leader in the software development industry, Bob served three years as the editor-in-chief of the C++ Report and was the first chairman of the Agile Alliance.
 

James McCaffrey
Volt VTE

At Volt Information Sciences, Inc., James McCaffrey oversees technical programs for software engineers working at Microsoft's Redmond WA campus. He has worked as a lead engineer on several key Microsoft projects including Internet Explorer and Internet Search. James is the author of .NET Test Automation Recipes, many journal articles, research papers, and a contributing editor of Microsoft's MSDN Magazine. James holds a doctorate in research methodology from the University of Southern California and an MS in information systems from Hawaii Pacific University. He can be reached at jammc@microsoft.com. 

John McConda
Moser Consulting

John McConda spent five years in the regulated world helping create an FDA-validated testing process for a software vendor in Chicago. Now a Senior Consultant for Moser Consulting in Indianapolis, John is leading a large testing effort for a Federal Government contractor, as well as getting his hands dirty with test automation, exploratory testing, and performance. John also enjoys writing about testing and teaching online courses for the Association for Software Testing.

Dan Mezick
New Technology Solutions

An expert on teams and a trusted adviser to CxO-level executives worldwide, Dan Mezick consults on enterprise-wide culture change, implementing Scrum, and the often difficult adoption of authentic lean principles. He creates and teaches specific tools and techniques for facilitating successful adoption of agile ideas and practices. Dan’s articles appear on InfoQ.com, ScrumAlliance.org, and AgileJournal.com. His innovative ideas on the dynamics of teams appear on his blog DynamicsApplied.com. Reach Dan at dan.mezick@newtechusa.com.

Rob Myers
Agile Institute
 
During his more than twenty years in various software development roles, Rob Myers has enjoyed consulting for leading companies in the aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors. For the past ten years he has consulted on numerous successful agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP) projects. The lead instructor of the Agile Institute and a founding member the Agile Cooperative, Rob teaches a variety of courses, including Essential Test-Driven Development and Essential Agile Testing. Every course is a blend of highly technical experience coupled with techniques for preserving sanity in the workplace. Rob also performs short- and long-term coaching to encourage, solidify, and improve the team’s agile practices.  

 

Nate Oster
CodeSquads LLC
 
Nate Oster is an agile player-coach and founder of CodeSquads LLC, where he helps clients adopt agile methods. Nate builds high-performance teams that emphasize continuously measuring progress with tested features, exercising all skills in parallel, and frequently delivering high-quality software that delights customers. Nate inspires adopters with hands-on mentoring and simulations that provide a safe learning environment for new ideas. He promotes testing as a serious technical discipline and is frequently consulted as an expert in test automation and system performance engineering.  NateOster@CodeSquads.com
 

Jeff Patton
Independent Consultant

For the past fifteen years Jeff Patton has designed and built software on a wide variety of systems from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. He has focused on agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular, Jeff specializes in the application of user experience design practice to improve agile requirements, planning, and ultimately the products delivered. Jeff currently works as an consultant, agile process coach, product design process coach, and instructor.  Learn more about Jeff at AgileProductDesign.com and in Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear.  Jeff is founder of the agile-usability Yahoo discussion group, a columnist with StickyMinds.com and “IEEE Software”, and winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development.

Jeff Payne
Coveros, Inc.

Jeff Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., where he has led the startup and growth of the company. Prior to Coveros, Jeff was Chairman of the Board, CEO, and co-founder of Cigital, Inc. Under his direction, Cigital became a leader in software security and software quality solutions, helping clients mitigate the business risks associated with failed software. Jeff is a recognized software expert and speaks to companies nationwide about the business risks of software failure. He has been a keynote and featured speaker at CIO and business technology conferences and frequently testifies before Congress on issues of national importance, including intellectual property rights, cyber-terrorism, and software quality. 
 

Pollyanna Pixton
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 the book she co-authored, Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility. She co-founded the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and has chaired Leadership Summits in the US and England. Contact her at ppixton@accelinnova.com. 

Ken Pugh
Net Objectives

A fellow consultant with Net Objectives, Ken Pugh has more than two-fifths 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 lean/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. He is currently writing Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development.  When not computing, Ken enjoys snowboarding, windsurfing, biking, and hiking the Appalachian Trail. Ken can be reached at ken.pugh@netobjectives.com.

Dan Rawsthorne
Danube Technologies, Inc.

A software developer for more than twenty-five years, Dan Rawsthorne is an accomplished manager, mentor, coach, trainer, consultant, and architect. His experience runs the gamut—from e-commerce to databases to military avionics and air traffic control. Dan is an agent of change, helping organizations transform themselves through liberal applications of common sense and agile techniques. His formal training causes him to look for underlying problems rather than to focus on surface symptoms; his military background helps him understand the importance of teamwork and empowerment; and his common sense tells him that change must happen in small manageable bites. Dan is currently co-writing Exploring Scrum.

Johanna Rothman
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.

Johanna Rothman helps managers and leaders solve problems and seize opportunities. She consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. Johanna enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management. Her most recent book is Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects. Her previous books are: the 2008 Jolt Productivity award winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management; and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby). Find more of Johanna's articles and her blogs—“Managing Product Development” and “Hiring Technical People”—at jrothman.com. 

 

Kevin Sawicki
Perforce Software

A software engineer at Perforce Software, Kevin Sawicki is working on the Eclipse plug-in for the Perforce version control system. He is currently working on combining programming language-specific tools and visualizations with version control history to help developers track the history of higher-level language constructs. Kevin previously worked at IBM and Aptana developing Eclipse plug-ins for JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Air, and iPhone development.

Alan Shalloway
Net Objectives

Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With almost forty years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader, trainer, and coach in the areas of lean software development, the lean-agile connection, Scrum, agile architecture, and using design patterns in agile environments. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide as well as a trainer/coach. Alan is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design and Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility. 
 

Ahmed Sidky
Santeon

Ahmed Sidky has gained popularity and respect in the agile community and is frequently referred to as Dr. Agile because of his free online agile readiness assessment tool, Doctor Agile. The Executive VP at Santeon, Ahmed is responsible for software delivery and agile services. He is also a frequent speaker at numerous national and international agile conferences as well as the co-author of Becoming Agile, a new book on practical agile adoption. Ahmed helps guide both small and large organizations during their transition to agile software development and enjoys coaching and educating agile teams around the world. You can reach him at asidky@santeon.com. 
 

Michele Sliger
Sliger Consulting, Inc.

For the past eight years—of her more than twenty years in software development—Michele Sliger has been embracing change with agile methodologies. Co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility and a self-described “bridge builder,” her passion lies in helping those in traditional software development environments cross the bridge to agility. Michele consults with businesses ranging from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, helping teams with their agile adoption and organizations with the changes that agile adoption brings. A regular contributor to StickyMinds.com, Michele is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). She can be reached at michele@sligerconsulting.com.
 

Mike Stuedemann
Medtronic

Mike Stuedemann, PMP, CSM, is the development manager for Medtronic Field Services and serves a number of developers and technologists charged with developing mobile applications. As an agile evangelist at Medtronic, he works to convince project teams within Medtronic’s Global Information Technology organization to improve their processes and practices. In his more than ten years of software development project experience, Mike has previously held positions of developer, tester, business analyst, and project manager.

Bryan Sullivan
Microsoft

A senior security program manager on the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team at Microsoft, Bryan Sullivan is responsible for addressing managed code security issues in the SDL. Not only does he add new SDL requirements to address new vulnerabilities, he also has changed the way the SDL itself is applied to agile development environments. A frequent speaker at security industry events and published writer on Web application security topics, Bryan authored the book Ajax Security. 

Jean Tabaka
Rally Software Development

An agile fellow with Rally Software Development, Jean Tabaka has more than thirty-years of experience in software development. In the late 1990s, she became an agile devotee, working with organizations worldwide to deliver more value faster through the adoption of agile principles and practices. Specializing in scaling agile practices, guiding leadership shifts, applying lean, and building continuous planning practices, Jean uses a collaborative approach to help organizations adopt agile. A Certified ScrumMaster Trainer, Jean is the author of Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders. You can find Jean’s current writings on agile and lean organizations, Kanban practices, and systems thinking in the rallydev.com/agileblog/ blog and by following her on twitter @jeantabaka.

Bill Wake
Industrial Logic, Inc.

Currently a senior coach with Industrial Logic, Inc., Bill Wake previously managed software development at Gene Codes Forensics and was an independent consultant. He has been teaching, writing about, and coaching XP and agile methods since 2000 and has worked with teams in a variety of domains, including biotechnology, financial systems, Web sales, and more. Living near Ann Arbor MI, Bill is the author/co-author of several books, including Design Patterns in Java and most recently Refactoring in Ruby. His personal Web site is at xp123.com; Industrial Logic's is at industriallogic.com.

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Wirfs-Brock Associates

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock consults, educates, speaks, and writes on practical software development techniques. Although best known as an object-oriented design guru and inventor of responsibility-driven design, she helps engineering, IT, and startup organizations improve their requirements analysis, agile architecture, and software design. Rebecca invented the two-column conversational form of use cases and object role stereotypes, and advocates informal techniques for thinking about, designing, and describing software. She is a past board member of the Agile Alliance and just finished a four-year stint as design columnist for IEEE Software. Rebecca is lead author of two design books: Designing Object-Oriented Software and Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities and Collaborations.