Ambler, Scott - Scott is a Senior Consultant with Ronin International, since its inception in 1999. He actively works with Ronin clients on large-scale software development projects and on software process improvement (SPI) efforts around the world.
Scott is Canadian and still lives in Canada although he spends a large portion of his time consulting in the United States and Europe. He has worked in the IT industry since the mid 1980s and with object technology since the early 1990s. He has written several books and white papers on object-oriented software development, software process, Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Database Techniques, the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and other topics.
Beedle, Mike - Mike is the founder and CEO of e-Architects Inc., a consulting company that specializes in application development using distributed objects and Internet technologies. He consults where he applies Scrum and XP together through XBreed. Mike was an early adopter of the Scrum method, and has introduced Scrum to 7 organizations since the mid-90's. Mike's specialty is to coach companies in the creation of large scale reusable architectures involving many application teams. Mike has published in several areas including object technology, patterns, components, frameworks, software development, programming languages, reusability, workflow, BPR, and Physics. He has co-organized several workshops on objects, patterns, components, and software development through the last decade. He is co-author of Scrum, Agile Software Development with Ken Schwaber (Prentice Hall, fall 2001).
Buglione, Luigi - Dr. Luigi Buglione is Associate Professor at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) – Université du Québec, Canada and is currently working as Process Improvement Specialist at Engineering.IT (formerly Atos Origin Italy and SchlumbergerSema) in Rome, Italy. Previously, he worked as a Software Process Engineer at the European Software Institute (ESI) in Bilbao, Spain.
Dr. Buglione is a regular speaker at international Conferences on Software Measurement, Process Improvement and Quality. He is also the Vice-President of the Italian Software Metrics Association (GUFPI-ISMA), where created the Software Measurement Committee (SMC), member of the ISBSG Technical Advisory Group, of the ISO/IEC WG10 Study Group and other technical national bodies on such issues.
He developed and was part of ESPRIT and of Basque Government projects on metric programs, EFQM models, the Balanced IT Scorecard and QFD for software. He is also a reviewer of the SWEBOK project, co-authoring the proposal for a new Knowledge Area on Software Measurement for the upcoming 2010 edition.
He received a Ph.D in Management Information Systems from LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy) and a degree cum laude in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.
He achieved the following certifications: IFPUG CSMS (Certified Software Measurement Specialist), COSMIC, ITIL v3 Foundation.
Cockburn, Alistair - Dr. Cockburn (pronounced Co-burn, the Scottish way), is an internationally renowned project witchdoctor and IT strategist, best known for describing Software development as a Cooperative Game, for helping craft the Agile Development Manifesto, for finally defining Use Cases and for developing the initial response technique relaxation/massage form.
Fowler, Martin - Martin is the Chief Scientist for Thoughtworks, an application development and consulting company. He's been involved for over a decade in using object-oriented techniques for information systems. Although his primary interest has been in software design he's never been able to avoid software process and has been interested in approaches that allow methodology to fit people rather than the other way around. He's the author of Analysis Patterns, UML Distilled, Refactoring, and Planning Extreme Programming.
Hayes, Steve - Steve has been developing software for over 15 years, working in a wide range of positions and geographic locations, including Silicon Valley and Wall St. Steve has long believed that the quality of the people was the most important factor in the success of a project, and consequently he has focused on mentoring and skills transfer. He also believes that most software projects are social problems, not technical problems, and that agile development methods codify social and technical practices that help teams work together better. Since 1999 Steve has been intimately involved in agile software development, as a coach, consultant and author. He is a contributor to Extreme Programming Applied by Ken Auer and Roy Miller, and Pair Programming Illuminated by Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler.
Hunt, Andrew - Mr. Hunt is a partner in The Pragmatic Programmers, and co-author of the best-selling book The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Programming Ruby, and various articles. In addition to writing, speaking engagements, his consulting business specializes in agile software development. Mr. Hunt has been writing software professionally since the early 80's across diverse industries such as telecommunications, banking, financial services, utilities, medical imaging, graphic arts, and Internet services. He is President of the RTP chapter of the Independent Computer Consultant's Association and a member of the ACM and IEEE.
Kerievsky, Joshua - Joshua Kerievsky has been programming professionally since 1987, and is the founder of Industrial Logic, a company specializing in Extreme Programming (XP). Since 1999, Joshua has been coaching and programming on small, large and distributed XP projects and teaching XP to people throughout the world. He is the author of numerous XP and patterns-based articles, simulations and games, including the book, Refactoring to Patterns.
Kern, Jon - Jon applied systems engineering and object-oriented principles to develop agile C++ software in the early days. He wrote about his incremental/iterative development methodology in (strangely enough) developers guides for Lotus Notes 4.5 and 5.0. He was motivated heavily by Peter Coad's mantra to deliver "frequent, tangible, working results," and has been using Together 's object modeling capability to keep source and model diagrams as two views of a single entity since 1994. Jon was a co-author of Java Design and worked with Peter and Jeff De Luca (the primary contributor to FDD) to help shape the chapter on Feature-Driven Development (FDD) in the Java Modeling in Color with UML. Jon continues to strive to improve his own software development team by combining aspects of XP and FDD and by learning every day.
Lister, Tim - Tim Lister is a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, a member of the Leadership Group of Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Risk Management & Governance practice, and a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Business-IT Strategies, Agile Software Development & Project Management, Innovation & Enterprise Agility and Sourcing and Vendor Relationships practices. He is also a frequent keynoter at Cutter Summits. Mr. Lister is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc. He is presently involved in assisting organizations with IT risk management and in tailoring methodologies and selecting tools for software development groups to increase project productivity and product reliability. He is also pursuing work on metrics for making the efforts of software projects more predictable. Mr. Lister has 25 years' professional software development experience. Before the formation of the Atlantic Systems Guild, he worked at Yourdon, Inc. for eight years, where he was an Executive Vice President and Fellow in charge of all instructor/consultants, the technical content of all courses, and the quality of all consultations.
Marick, Brian - Mr. Marick is a programmer and software testing consultant. He came to Snowbird as a representative of a part of the software testing community that's been developing a testing style emphasizing exploration, lessened reliance on documentation, increased acceptance of change, and the notion that a project is an ongoing conversation about quality. He is beginning an exploration of what "Agile Testing" might mean, and how it fits in with Agile Development, in the Agile Testing section of his web page.
Martin, Robert C. - Robert C. Martin has been a software professional since 1970. In the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities on literally hundreds of software projects. He has authored "landmark" books on Agile Programming, Extreme Programming, UML, Object-Oriented Programming, and C++ Programming. He has published dozens of articles in various trade journals. Today, He is one of the software industry's leading authorities on Agile software development and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows. He is a former editor of the C++ Report and currently writes a monthly Craftsman column for Software Development magazine. Mr. Martin is the founder, CEO, and president of Object Mentor Incorporated. Object Mentor is a sister company to Object Mentor International. Like OMI, Object Mentor is comprised of highly experienced software professionals who provide process improvement consulting, object-oriented software design consulting , training, and development services to major corporations around the world.
Schwaber, Ken - is president of Advanced Development Methods (ADM), a company dedicated to improving the software development practice. He is an experienced software developer, product manager, and industry consultant. Schwaber initiated the process management product revolution of the early 1990's and also worked with Jeff Sutherland to formulate the initial versions of the Scrum development process. Since then,he has formalized Scrum , helped many organizations successfully deploy products and systems using Scrum, and co-authored Scrum, Agile Software Development with Mike Beedle (Prentice Hall, fall 2001) and several other books.
Email: ken.schwaber@verizon.net
Smith, Preston - Dr. Preston has been consulting to and training companies in rapid product development for twenty years. Although Preston may be best known for his many publications, his daily activity centers on onsite consultation and training in new product development using a results-oriented approach that he has honed over the years. Considered an expert in Risk Management and Agile Development. He is coauthor of Developing Products in Half the Time, which has sold over 100,000 copies in several languages. He holds an engineering PhD from Stanford and is a Certified Management Consultant.
Sutherland, Jeff - Jeff is Chief Technology Officer of PatientKeeper, an MIT based startup providing mobile/wireless applications to clinicians. He has been CTO or VP of Engineering in nine software technology companies and introduced improved agile development processes to each of them. His work on reusable business object components through the Object Management Group and the OOPSLA Business Object Workshop during the last decade has led to new database products, software development environments, CASE/OOAD tools,as well as vertical applications in multiple industries. As founder and VP of Engineering at Individual Inc. he launched personal NewsPage. As an inventor of the SCRUM development process, his experience in organizational development has repeatedly enabled high-octane development teams to deliver world-class software products.
Wake, William - Principal, William Wake and Associates, William works at training and coaching, with an emphasis on XP and agile development methods. Skills: Extreme Programming and Agile Software development, Refactoring, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Web, Client-Server Programming, Information Retrieval, Oracle Databases. Author of Extreme Programming Explored (2001) and Refactoring Workbook (2003).
Ward Cunningham - is a founder of Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has also served as Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory before that. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities hosted by his WikiWikiWeb. He is active with the Hillside Group and has served as program chair of the Pattern Languages of Programs conference which it sponsors. Ward created the CRC design method which helps teams find core objects for their programs. Ward has written for PLoP, JOOP and OOPSLA on Patterns, Objects, CRC and related topics.
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