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Alexander Podelko Technical Staff Oracle |
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For the last sixteen years Alex Podelko has worked as a performance engineer and architect for several companies. Currently he is Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle, responsible for performance testing and optimization of Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence (a.k.a. Hyperion) products. Alex periodically talks and writes about performance-related topics, advocating tearing down silo walls between different groups of performance professionals. His collection of performance-related links and documents (including his recent papers and presentations) can be found at www.alexanderpodelko.com. He blogs at alexanderpodelko.com/blog and can be found on Twitter as @apodelko. Alex currently serves as a director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) , an organization of performance and capacity planning professionals. Sessions |
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Allan Wagner Technical Marketing Manager IBM Rational |
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IBM-certified IT Specialist Allan (Al) Wagner is a technical marketing manager and evangelist with IBM, driving thought leadership, strategic initiatives, and tangible solutions with a specific focus on quality management, test automation, and service virtualization. In his fifteen years of practical IT field experience, Al has assisted, supported, mentored, and enabled teams with their IT application infrastructure, development, implementation, and operations challenges. Al has spoken extensively on software quality principles and techniques at multiple conferences, and has authored/co-authored the IBM “Service Virtualization For Dummies” book and numerous papers on quality management and test automation. SessionsService Virtualization: Enabling Testers to Test Continuously |
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Anthony Borton Lead Consultant Enhance ALM |
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Anthony Borton is the lead ALM consultant for Enhance ALM Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in Application Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Visual Studio. He delivers training on Microsoft’s ALM products through Seattle-based training provider, QuickLearn Inc and is the lead ALM trainer behind www.alm-training.com Anthony is a sought after trainer and has delivered technical training and consulting in the United States, Europe and all across the Asia Pacific region. He is a Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio ALM), a Professional Scrum Developer Trainer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Sessions |
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Arthur Ryman Distinguished Engineer IBM Rational |
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Arthur is a Distinguished Engineer in IBM Rational and a member of the OSLC Core Working Group where he has contributed to several OSLC specifications. Arthur has also applying Linked Data to the Rational Jazz Integration Architecture, especially in the area of reporting. Sessions |
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Arnoud Lems Application Development Avanade Netherlands |
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Arnoud is currently consulting as a scrum master at Philips building their connected capability. Arnoud is also involved with the ALM capability within Avanade's Application Development service line delivering guidance on how to use and implement TFS and ALM for Avanade projects and customers. He is also one of the leading people in agile practice within Avanade Netherlands. Sessions |
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Bernard Golden Author |
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Named by Wired.com as one of the ten most influential persons in cloud computing, Bernard Golden is a recognized visionary in the field. He serves as Senior Director, Cloud Computing Enterprise Solutions, for Dell Enstratius, a leading cloud management software company. Before joining Dell Enstratius, Bernard founded and led HyperStratus, a global cloud computing consultancy serving customers like Korea Telecom, BMC, Pepsi, and Unilever. Bernard also serves as the cloud computing advisor for CIO Magazine; his blog has been named to over a dozen “best of cloud computing” lists and is read by tens of thousands of persons each month. He is a highly regarded speaker, and has keynoted cloud conferences around the world. Bernard acts an advisor for organizations that leverage his cloud computing expertise to accelerate their success:
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Bjorn Freeman-Benson VP Engineering New Relic |
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Bjorn is Software Psychologist and VP of Engineering at New Relic. He previously worked at Amazon, the Eclipse Foundation, the world-famous-to-the-right-people OTI, and a couple of failed start-ups. He hasn’t written any books, but he is a voracious reader and has thousands of pounds of them including an extensive collection of history books on the US space program history books and another of space opera science fiction. Bjorn holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a pilot's license and is always wondering which one has been more useful. Sessions |
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Carson Holmes EVP of Software Delivery Software Development Experts |
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Carson Holmes is a management consultant, methodologist, software engineer, and educator. He is the Executive Vice President of Service Delivery at Software Development Experts. Mr. Holmes started programming over 30 years ago and for the last 16 years has helped numerous Fortune 500 IT enterprises across a variety of industries achieve their strategic goals. He is a specialist in IT governance and process improvement and leverages pragmatic methods, practices, and tools that benefit the enterprise IT value stream. SessionsUsing Delivery Intelligence from the ALM Portfolio to Enable Strategic Change |
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Chad Albrecht President Centare |
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For the last 20 years, Chad has been a successful executive, consultant, developer, coach and trainer. Working with dynamic organizations around the world in diverse industries has grown Chad into a strong believer in Agile ALM techniques and the Kaizen corporate culture. Currently, he “practices what he preaches” as the President and CEO of Centare with offices in Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago. Sessions |
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Cheryl Hammond ALM Consultant Northwest Cadence |
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Cheryl Hammond is an ALM Consultant at Northwest Cadence and has more than 14 years’ experience as a software developer in the private and public sectors. She previously led her team’s successful adoption of Scrum in on a mission-critical regulatory compliance project under multi-agency state and federal government oversight, so don’t tell her it can’t be done. Sessions |
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Claude Remillard Group Program Manager Microsoft |
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Mr. Remillard is Group Program Manager responsible for Visual Studio Release Management. Prior to that, he was a co-founder of InCycle Software - a leading firm providing ALM consulting services for .NET development teams. His primary area of evangelism is the adoption of best practices in software development lifecycle management. Over the last two decades, Mr. Remillard has held different executive positions in the software and technology market. This includes the position of President of Acceleron, a software company that developed and marketed an expense management solution with close to half a million licenses sold worldwide. Sessions |
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Curtis Stuehrenberg Test and QA Manager Climate Corporation |
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Curtis is currently heading up software testing and quality assurance at the Climate Corporation located in San Francisco, Seattle, and Kansas City. When not trying to help famers and growers deal with weather and changing climate conditions he devotes what little free time he can muster to using his 15 years of practical experience to promote agile software testing and contextual quality assurance at conferences like SF Agile, STP, and CAST as well as publications like Tea Time for Testers and Better Software magazine. Sessions |
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Daniel Tobler Principal Consultant Zuehlke Engineering AG |
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Daniel Tobler is a developer for embedded area programming in C/C++, Java, and C# .NET. He has been working as developer, project manager, agile tester, architect, coach, and Scrum Master in various projects. Scrum is on his list since 2000 where he used a similar method to complete a death march project. Beside Scrum he has expertise in RUP, Kanban, iterative development and XP. Daniel works as principal consultant for Zühlke Engineering AG in Switzerland. In addition to his activities at Scrum.org, he codes, coaches companies on testing, and lectures about OO-Design and Scrum at Swiss Universities. Sessions |
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Dave Stecher Senior Business Development Engineer PointSource |
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Dave Stecher is a Senior Business Development Engineer with PointSource and has years of experience designing and implementing innovative software solutions in AGILE environments as well as solving high-level business problems. Previously he worked on a number of teams at IBM including the Worklight team. He also served as the Client/Server Platform Invention Development Team lead at IBM and has dozens of pending patents. He also received recognition for an IBM Software Group Invention of the Quarter. His current focus is on enabling enterprise mobility. Sessions |
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Dave West Chief Product Officer Tasktop |
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Dave West is the Chief Product Officer at Tasktop. In this capacity, he engages with customers and partners to drive Tasktop's product roadmap and market positioning. As a member of the company's executive management team, he also is instrumental in building Tasktop into a transformative business that is driving major improvements in the software industry. As one of the foremost industry experts on software development and deployment, West has helped advance many modern software development processes, including Agile and Lean methodologies, process improvement, and project and requirements management. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, that helped define new software modeling and application development processes. West's experience includes traditional and object-oriented development for enterprise applications and executive consulting, where he implemented new development processes and tools for IT organizations in Europe and North America. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational, later adding componentization, SPEMM and support for Agile development. He also managed the development of IBM solutions to support efficiencies in the financial services, product development and government industry sectors. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. During the past four years he served as Vice President and Research Director at Forrester Research, where he worked with leading IT organizations and solutions providers to define, drive and advance major Agile-based methodology breakthroughs in the enterprise. West holds a B.A. in Computing and Business from Huddersfield University in the UK and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Southbank University (UK). Follow @DavidJWest on Twitter Sessions[Plenary] Lean ALM: Making Software Flow from Idea to Implementation |
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David Murphy SVP Delivery SOASTA |
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Dave Murphy, Senior Vice President of Delivery for SOASTA, has enjoyed a varied career as a Silicon Valley executive with high tech hardware, software and distribution companies. With over 25 years of experience, Dave has led pre-sales and professional services teams at Tibco, Cybrant, Baan and Borland, and has written articles and been a featured speaker at industry events on topics ranging from networking and communications to software development best practices. SessionsCloud Testing In the Mainstream: User stories from Industry Leaders |
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Dori Exterman CTO IncrediBuild |
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An expert software developer and product strategist, Dori has 20 years of experience in the software development industry. As Chief Technical Officer, he directs the company's product strategy and is responsible for product vision, implementation, and technical partnerships. Before joining IncrediBuild, Dori held a variety of technical and product development roles at software development companies, with a focus on architecture, performance and advanced technologies. He is an expert and frequent speaker on technological advancement in development tools specializing in Embarcadero (formerly Borland) environments, and manages the Israeli development forum for these tools. SessionsReducing the Build-Test-Deploy Cycle from Hours to Minutes at Cellebrite |
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Ed Blankenship Product Marketing Manager Microsoft |
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Ed is Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for Visual Studio Online and ALM on the Developer Tools Marketing team. He was previously a Program Manager at Microsoft Visual Studio India for Test & Lab Management (Visual Studio ALM) and the Product Owner for the Lab Management scenarios. SessionsMake Data-Driven, High-Impact Improvements to your Applications |
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Eric Clayberg Software Engineering Manager |
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Eric Clayberg manages the Dart Editor project at Google and is a winner of a Google Great Manager Award in 2012. He is also a former co-founder of Instantiations (acquired by Google in 2010), Project Lead for the WindowBuilder project at Eclipse.org, and a member of the Eclipse Tools PMC. He is a seasoned software technologist, product developer, entrepreneur, and manager with more than 21 years of commercial software development experience and has been responsible for creating more than a dozen commercial Java, Eclipse and Smalltalk products including the award winning WindowBuilder Pro, CodePro, and VA Assist product lines. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and is co-author of “Eclipse Plug-ins” and “Eclipse GEF” from Addison Wesley. Sessions |
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Eric Winquist CEO Jama |
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CEO Eric Winquist sets the strategic vision for Jama, a company he founded in 2007 after witnessing first-‐hand the common frustrations companies face in delivering products to market. With 20 years’ experience in product development and entrepreneurship, he is passionate about reinventing product delivery in the enterprise by bringing people into the process. Eric’s interest and background in the psychology of work and motivation has informed many of the innovations in Jama’s collaboration software. Eric is frequently invited to present on the topics of entrepreneurship, innovation and business-‐process change. Sessions |
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James Whittaker Distinguished Technical Evangelist Microsoft |
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James Whittaker is a technology executive with a career that spans academia, start-ups and top tech companies. He is known for being a creative and passionate leader and in technical contributions in testing, security and tools. He’s published dozens of peer reviewed papers, five books and has won best speaker awards at a number of international conferences. During his time at Google he led teams working on Chrome, Google Maps and Google+. He is currently at Microsoft reinventing the web. Whittaker is the author of How to Break Software, How to Break Software Security (with Hugh Thompson), and How to Break Web Software (with Mike Andrews). While at Microsoft, James transformed many of his testing ideas into tools and techniques for developers and testers, and wrote the book Exploratory Software Testing. His current book was written when he was a test engineering director at Google and is called How Google Tests Software (with Jason Arbon and Jeff Carollo). Sessions |
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Jed Moffitt Director of IT Services KCLS |
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Jed Moffitt is Director of Information Technology Services for the King County Library System. As such, he is tasked with working hand in hand with KCLS director Bill Ptacek and the rest of the leadership of KCLS to transform KCLS into a model for the role of a public library in the 21st century. Moffitt is considered a pioneer for leading the transformation of KCLS, building and customizing KCLS applications and leading the charge for integrated library systems. Moffitt offers advice to his peers, including being diligent in your business analysis and choosing agile development. Sessions |
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Jeff Haiynie Co-Founder and CEO Appcelerator |
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Jeff is co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software provider in the communications arena. Prior to that he served as CTO of eHatchery, a digital incubator and off-shoot of Bill Gross’ idealab!. Jeff has worked on numerous standard committees such as IETF and W3C as well as core contributor to a number of important open source technologies such as JBoss and OpenVXI. He served with distinction in the U.S. Navy. SessionsStop Debating, Start Measuring: How User Analytics Change Lifecycle Speed and Output |
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Jeff Sussna Founder and Principal Ingineering.IT |
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Jeff Sussna is Founder and Principal of Ingineering.IT, a technology consulting firm that facilitates Adaptive IT through teaching, coaching, and strategic design. Jeff has more than 20 years of IT experience, and has led high-performance teams across the Dev/QA/Ops spectrum. He is a highly sought-after speaker on IT Innovation topics, and was recognized as a Top 50 Must-Read IT Blogger for 2012 and 2013 by BizTech Magazine. His interests focus on the intersection of development, operations, design, and business. Sessions |
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Jeffrey Hammond VP, Principal Research Analyst Forrester |
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Jeffrey is a software development veteran, with more than twenty years of experience in various development, product management, strategy, and marketing roles. He is a leading expert on mobile development, modern application architecture, application life-cycle management, and open source policies and projects. He helps Application Development & Delivery teams improve their productivity while building creative, high-performance cultures. Jeffrey has been with Forrester since 2006. Jeffrey joined Forrester from IBM's Rational unit, where he created award-winning application development tools, including Rational Rose/J Edition, Rose/CORBA, and Rose/PowerBuilder. Prior to joining Rational Software, Jeffrey was part of Accenture's Advanced Systems Group, where he led application development projects at Fortune 500 clients. Jeffrey holds a B.S. in economics (finance) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Sessions |
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Jens Donig Senior Consultant HOOD |
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Jens Donig is Senior Consultant for Systems Engineering with HOOD Group. He specializes in Requirements Engineering and Agile Software Development processes. Since 2009 he has focused on Analysis and Design of ALM workflows. He uses model-based methods to bridge the gap between abstract high-level processes and the actual flow of work. Jens engages in advancing the state of the art in ALM. He is recognized as experienced consultant, Certified UML Professional (OCUP), frequent speaker, and coauthor of the book Perfekte Softwareentwicklung. SessionsWorkflows à la carte – a model-based approach to the configuration of ALM systems |
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Jim Szubryt Enterprise Workforce Accenture |
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Jim is TFS Product Manager for Accenture’s Enterprise Workforce. He is also an ALM Ranger and a Microsoft ALM MVP, where he was selected as one of the ALM MVPs of the year. His team is globally distributed between Argentina, India and the US and supports more than 2,700 developers across six delivery centers (Argentina, China, India, Philippines, Spain and the US). Jim has spoken to user groups and at code camps in the Midwest for several years. SessionsHow Large Global Enterprises can use ALM Tools for Application Delivery |
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John Esser Director of Engineering Ancestry.com |
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John is currently the Director of Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com. His team’s mission is to accelerate engineering’s ability to deliver value to the customer. He is the architect of Ancestry’s transformation to Agile development and continuous delivery. John has more than 25 years software development experience working for such companies as IBM, Corel, Callware Technologies, and Control4. His spare time is gobbled up by his beautiful wife, four teenage sons, reading lots of books, and fly-fishing for trout on the Provo River. Sessions |
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Jon Harding SVP, DevOps Engineering Lead Bank of America |
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Jon is a veteran of the finance and banking IT industry. Prior to that, Jon delivered large open systems for customers of IBMs Global Services, and also worked as a developer at GE. Jon’s current role is as a leader in DevOps, Release, Testing, and Prod Support for Bank of America eCommerce group which serves millions of customer interactions and banking transactions on a daily basis. SessionsDevOps Enabled Delivery as an Imperative for Successful Enterprise Agile Adoption |
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Jon Leslie Senior Production Expert Hansoft |
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Jon is a Senior Production Expert at Hansoft with the primary role of helping game studios and software development companies around the world leverage their Hansoft usage, taking their productivity to new levels. Jon uniquely combines his past 10 years of game production experience with over 11 years of enterprise software project management. He has held production roles at EA, Microsoft Game Studios, Take-Two Interactive and Harmonix. Most recently, Jon worked at Electronic Arts as a Senior Producer for The Sims 3 franchise. Sessions |
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Jose Luis Soria ALM Team Lead PlainConcepts |
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Jose Luis Soria works as ALM Team Lead at Plain Concepts, where he helps clients to improve development, delivery, quality and lifecycle for their software. He has trained and coached dozens of teams during the last years, both as an independent trainer and as a Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org. He is a MCSD for Application Lifecycle Management, and has been awarded as Microsoft Active Professional. He also regularly engages as a speaker in many events each year, including among others ALM Summit 3 (Redmond), Barcelona Developers Conference 2013, Microsoft TechEd Middle East 2011 (Dubai), Scandinavian Developers Conference 2012 (Gothemburg), XP2011 (Madrid), Agile Portugal 2011 (Porto), Microsoft ALM Sessions and Cloud Day 2012 (Madrid and Barcelona), and all the editions of the Agile Spain Conference that have took place so far. He is co-author of the book and associated labs Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012, written in collaboration with the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team. Jose (sporadically) writes at his blog (http://geeks.ms/blogs/jlsoria/) both in Spanish and English, and tweets as @@jlsoriat. Moreover, Jose has been implementing the ideas presented in this session in several projects where the Continuous Delivery model was adopted. Sessions |
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Ken Johnston Principal Test Manager Microsoft |
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Ken Johnston is a frequent presenter, blogger, and author on software testing and services. Currently he is the Principal Test Manager for the Windows AppStore. Since joining Microsoft in 1998 Johnston has filled many other roles, including test lead on Site Server and MCIS and test manager on Hosted Exchange, Knowledge Worker Services, Net Docs, MSN, Microsoft Billing and Subscription Platform service, and Bing Infrastructure and Domains. Johnston has also been the Group Program Manager for Bing Data Quality and Measurements, Group Manager of the Office Internet Platforms and Operations team (IPO) and for two and a half years (2004-2006) he served as the Microsoft Director of Test Excellence. He earned his MBA from the University of Washington in 2003. His is a co-author of “How we Test Software at Microsoft” and contributing author to “Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation.” For more information contact him through twitter @rkjohnston. Sessions |
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Ken Schwaber Industry Legend Co-Creator Scrum |
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Ken Schwaber co-developed the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s to help organizations struggling with complex development projects. One of the signatories to the Agile Manifesto in 2001, he subsequently founded the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. He founded Scrum.org in 2009 in order to move the state of the art forward. A 30-year veteran of the software development industry (from bottle washer to boss), he has written three books about Scrum: Agile Software Development with Scrum, Agile Project Management with Scrum, and The Enterprise and Scrum. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Sessions |
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Kevin Hancock Senior Director Worldwide Field Operations Collabnet |
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In his ten plus year at CollabNet, Kevin has led successful implementations of CollabNet products and services at some of the world’s largest enterprises. Kevin works with organizations to transform their globally distributed application development teams into modern, agile organizations, helping to save millions of dollars while accelerating software delivery. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Sessions |
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Ludmila Ohlsson Strategic Product Manager Ericsson R&D and Test |
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Ludmila is Strategic Product Manager with Ericsson Solution Area R&D and Test. She has worked for 20 years within Ericsson QA as Test Manager or I&V Discipline Manager (responsible for Test tools as well for Processes and Methods). Last year she got a responsibility for Ericsson Engineering Integration Framework and R&D Analytics. Sessions |
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Mahendra Pingale Senior Product Manager IBM DevOps |
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Mahendra is a Senior Product Manager with IBM DevOps Solutions portfolio, and a member of the IBM DevOps Tiger Team. As a product manager, he is responsible to define and deliver offerings that help customers with continuous software delivery and reduce time to gather and act on feedback they receive from their user base. He works closely with IBM's worldwide customer base to understand their pain points in the areas of continuous deployment and continuous delivery, helps them in this areas with adoption of IBM offerings, and uses their feedback to improve IBM's offerings in this space. He is passionate about the DevOps and Lean principles and how they can be used to transform Enterprise operations across industries and market segments Sessions |
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Mark Prichard Senior Director, Product Management Cloudbees |
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Mark Prichard is Senior Director for Product Management at CloudBees. He has written extensively on mobile application development topics, especially continuous integration for mobile applications. He came to CloudBees after 13 years at BEA Systems and Oracle, where he was Product Manager for the WebLogic Platform. A graduate of St John's College, Cambridge and the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, Mark works for CloudBees in Los Altos, CA. SessionsComplete Continuous Integration and Testing for Mobile and Web Applications |
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Mark Tomlinson Performance Engineering Consultant PerfBytes |
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Mark Tomlinson is a performance engineering and software testing consultant. His career began in 1992 with a comprehensive two-year test for a life-critical transportation system, a project which captured his interest for software testing, quality assurance, and test automation. That first test project sought to prevent trains from running into each other -- and Mark has metaphorically been preventing “train wrecks” for his customers for the past 20 years. He has broad experience with real-world scenario testing of large and complex systems and is regarded as a leading expert in software testing automation with a specific emphasis on performance. He worked for six years at Microsoft Corporation as a performance consultant and engineer in the Microsoft Services Labs, in the Enterprise Engineering Center and in the SQL Server labs. His efforts to foster the success of Microsoft’s top-tier Enterprise customers was focused on their early adoption of Microsoft products as part of mission-critical operations. In 2008, as the LoadRunner Product Manager at HP Software Mark led the team to deliver leading innovations for performance testing and engineering as part of HP's suite of performance validation and management products. Mark now offers coaching, training and consulting to help customers adopt modern testing and engineering strategies, practices and behaviors for better performing technology systems. He is the co-founder and host of the popular podcast PerfBytes. SessionsRoles and Revelations: Embracing and Evolving our Conceptions of Testing |
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Mark Wanish Senior Vice President Bank of America |
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Mark Wanish is a Bank of America Technology Executive responsible for the account opening process in the online / mobile channel and establishing a core omni-channel capability that can be leveraged across the bank to provide a consistent experience for customers. As the Consumer Purchasing & Marketing Technology Executive, he is responsible for the marketing, promotional, and ad campaign creation and generation through various channels to optimize communications and interactions with the customer. In this role, he led a two-pronged transformation that started with an organizational focus on aligning a heavily matrixed business and technology organization that traditionally leveraged waterfall practices and processes to structure itself as a lean-agile organization. This was followed by implementing a full Agile ALM execution model and ensured that the delivery change encompassed idea to implementation. Mark is well known for being a transformational leader and has spent the past 15 years working around the globe. Sessions |
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Martin Kuenzle Program Manager, ALM evosoft |
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Dr. Martin Kuenzle is Program Manager and Principal Consultant for Application Lifecycle Management with evosoft, a subsidiary of the Siemens corporate group. He coaches teams that deliver consulting, solutions, and lifecycle services around Microsoft TFS to various industries. Together with Jens Donig he invented the method of Value-oriented Practices (v-o-p). He is product owner and chief architect of the Siemens Solutions Framework (SSF) for integrated ALM. Before his current assignment, Martin has worked in the Healthcare sector for 12 years. He held various positions in software engineering and management. His area of expertise includes product line engineering, distributed development, and agile in the large. He is a frequent speaker at software conferences. Martin holds a PhD in mathematics and certifications as Requirements Engineer, Systems Engineer, Configuration Manager, Trainer, and Scrum Master. SessionsWorkflows à la carte – a model-based approach to the configuration of ALM systems |
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Matt Ray Cloud Integration Lead Chef |
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Matt Ray is a Cloud Integrations Lead for the open source systems integration platform Chef. He is active in the Chef, Ruby and OpenStack communities and was the Community Manager for Zenoss Core. He has worked in a wide variety of industries and has a Software Engineering Masters from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a contributor in the open source community for well over a decade and was one of the founders of the Texas LinuxFest. He resides in Austin, blogs at LeastResistance.net and is @mattray on Twitter, IRC and GitHub. Sessions |
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Melinda-Carol Ballou Program Director, ALM IDC |
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Melinda-Carol Ballou serves as Program Director for IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management research. In this role, Ms. Ballou provides thought leadership, expert opinion, research, and analysis through comprehensive research on application life-cycle management (ALM), with specific focus on software life-cycle process configuration and management, software quality, and IT governance software. Ms. Ballou also offers competitive intelligence and consulting on key aspects of the ALM market to service providers, investment firms, and G2000 end-user companies. Ms. Ballou is working collaboratively with other teams at IDC to create IDC's project and portfolio research (PPM) in the context of ALM topics. She is also focusing on ways in which ALM must evolve to support services-oriented development and composite applications. For the ITEx service, Ms. Ballou collaborates with colleagues targeting IT governance as it relates to IT portfolio management, encompassing IT PPM, IT asset and financial management to research and support end-user technology decision-making, organizational and process strategies.Ms. Ballou comes to IDC with over 18 years of extensive experience in IT research and analysis. Prior to joining IDC, Ms Ballou founded Ballou IT Strategies, an independent consulting company that offered analysis of PPM and ALM, as well as supporting collateral to G2000 end-user clients and software providers. Ms. Ballou also served as Senior Program Director at META Group, and during her eleven years with META successfully established and evolved the software development life-cycle management and project and portfolio management research practices. Ms. Ballou has also held various editorial positions, including Senior Writer/Senior Editor for ComputerWorld, and Staff Writer/Senior Editor for Digital Review. Ms. Ballou holds a Masters Degree in Professional Writing from MIU, and a BA from Williams College in Philosophy and Music. Sessions |
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Michael Azoff Principal Analyst Ovum |
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Michael Azoff (PhD, MIEEE) has been working as an IT industry analyst since 2003, bringing over 20 years of experience in pure and applied research and consulting in the IT industry. At Ovum he leads the software development and lifecycle management (SDLM) research and his current focus is on agile and lean practices in software development, including enterprise agile transformation initiatives, DevOps, cloud related SDLM, application performance management, and enterprise IT mobile development. He is currently working on an Ovum Analyst Insight report on ALM-PLM integration. Sessions |
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Michael Larsen Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Socialtext |
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Michael Larsen is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with Socialtext in Palo Alto, California, USA. Over the past two decades, he has been involved in software testing for a range of products and industries, including network routers & switches, virtual machines, capacitance touch devices, video games, and client/server, distributed database & web applications. Michael is a Black Belt in the Miagi-Do School of Software Testing, a founder and facilitator of the Americas chapter of Weekend Testing, Chair of the Education Special Interest Group with the Association for Software Testing (AST), a lead instructor of the Black Box Software Testing courses through AST, and curator of training materials for SummerQAmp. Michael writes the TESTHEAD blog (http://mkltesthead.com) and can be found on Twitter at @@mkltesthead. A list of books, articles, papers, and presentations can be seen at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mkltesthead. SessionsThe New Testers: Critical Skills and Capabilities to Deliver Quality at Speed |
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Michael Rosenbaum Founder & CEO Catalyst IT Services |
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Michael Rosenbaum is the founder and CEO of Catalyst IT Services, a provider of onshore agile development services. A recognized speaker and visionary, Rosenbaum pioneered a “moneyball” approach that leverages analytics to identify and assemble highly-skilled development teams. This model has proven particularly effective at enabling team cohesion and dynamics that rapidly improve agile adoption, productivity, and results. Prior to starting Catalyst IT Services, Mike received an Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship to build the first version of what is now the company’s analytics engine for talent selection and team assembly. Earlier in his career he taught economics and law at Harvard and published a series of articles on his research into applying data to social relations. He has a law degree and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics. Sessions |
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Mik Kersten CEO Tasktop |
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Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter Sessions |
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Mike Brittain Director of Engineering Etsy |
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Mike Brittain is the Director of Engineering for infrastructure teams at Etsy in Brooklyn, New York. He manages the low-level platform teams that focus on enabling Continuous Deployment in an engineering team of over 100 people. The focus of these teams is on developer tools, testing automation, web performance, database access, caching, and site resilience. Mike has been involved in Internet development for over 12 years as a generalist, with interests frequently bouncing between front-end (client) technologies to back-end database architectures and services. He has put his experience to work over the last seven years leading small development teams at a handful of Internet start-ups in New York City. Sessions |
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Mike Ostenberg Director, Systems Engineering SOASTA |
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Mike has over six years of experience leading high performing teams at SOASTA and HP. He has an extensive background in Application Performance Testing, SaaS, Application Lifecycle Management, Application Monitoring, Web Services and Web technologies. SessionsPerformance Testing In Production, and what You’ll Find There |
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Mike Vincent Solutions Architect MVA Software |
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Mike Vincent is a veteran software entrepreneur and solutions architect based in Orange County, California. He currently provides clients throughout North America with application lifecycle management training, consultation and Scrum coaching primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 25 years in addition to marketing management, project management and engineering positions. Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike is a past Vice President and Treasurer of INETA Noram. He is a frequent presenter at developer events including Microsoft TechEd and PDC. He is a Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management MVP, Professional Scrum Product Owner, and Professional Scrum Developer Trainer. Sessions |
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Mikio Aoyama Professor Nanzan University |
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Dr. Mikio Aoyama is a professor at the department of software engineering, Nanzan University, Japan. Before he joined the university, he has 15 years of experiences in the industry including managing large-scale software development. Currently, he is a chair of PROMCODE, formerly called PROMIS, a joint research consortium with IBM, Fujitsu, NEC, NTT DATA, Hitachi and Nomura Research Institute founded on May 21, 2012. At Innovate 2013 in June 2013, he gave two talks titled “PROMIS: OSLC for Project Management Mission, Strategy, Technology, and Collaboration with OSLC” and “PROMIS Project: Toward a Flexible Network of Vendors in Software Supply Chains with a Standard of Project Management Information”. He also gave a talk “A Model and its Management Architecture of Software Service Supply Chains” at ICServ 2013 in October 2013, and a talk “PROMCODE: Development of an Open Project Management Platform and its Experience” at ProMAC 2013 in November 2013. SessionsPROMCODE: An Open Platform for Large-Scale Contracted Software Delivery in Software Supply Chains |
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Nicole Bryan VP Product Management Tasktop |
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Nicole Bryan is the Vice President of Product Management at Tasktop, responsible for engineering execution with the company’s business strategy. She has over 17 years of experience in software and product development, focused primarily on bringing data visualization/infographics and human factors considerations to the forefront of Application Lifecycle Management. As a former developer and VP of Engineering, she’s keenly aware of how to foster collaboration and productivity across all disciplines of the software development and delivery lifecycle. Prior to Tasktop, she served as director of product management at Borland Software/Micro Focus, where she was responsible for creating a new Agile development management tool. Prior to Borland, she worked for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Regulatory Division, where she managed some of the first Agile project teams at the NYSE. Bryan is passionate about improving how software is created and delivered – making the experience enjoyable, fun and yes, even delightful. Sessions |
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Peter Varhol Principal Technology Strategy Research |
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Peter Varhol is a well-known writer and speaker on software and technology topics, having authored dozens of articles and spoken at a number of industry conferences and webcasts. He has advanced degrees in computer science, applied mathematics, and psychology, and is currently Principal at Technology Strategy Research, LLC. His past roles include technology journalist, software product manager, software developer, and university professor. Sessions |
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Ravit Danino Director, Applications Product Management HP Software & Solutions |
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Ravit Danino has more than 7 years’ experience as a product Manager, strategy and business development professional in the enterprise software, systems and networking area. In her current role, Ravit manages a team of Senior product manager’s professionals across the HP Software Applications Life cycle management product (ALM) and lead HP’s new releases and products around ALM, Quality Center and Agile Manager. In prior roles, Ravit lead the architects team as part of the R&D for ALM, QC and the Load testing products ( Performance Center and LoadRunner) . Ravit has also lead strategy around Cloud and as service offerings for ALM pillar. With Ravit’s extensive experience in application architecture, application development and management, she brings a broad set of knowledge to assist customers in understanding how best to manage the lifecycle of their applications and how to ensure that their applications will meet the market needs. She also experts in how customers’ needs to automate their application lifecycle and testing practices and prepare for the challenge of adopting modern application development technics like Agile. Ravit has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and MBA from Bar Ilan university in Israel. Sessions |
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Richard Seroter Senior Product Manager CenturyLink Cloud |
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Richard Seroter is the head of product management for the CenturyLink Cloud, a Microsoft MVP for Integration, Pluralsight trainer, InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, frequent public speaker, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter. SessionsHow Any Organization Can Transition to DevOps – 10 Practical Strategies Gleaned from a Cloud Startup |
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Rob Cummings Infrastructure Engineering Nordstrom |
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Rob has worked in systems operations for the past 14 years. This includes work at Bose, EMC Corporation, and Accenture prior to joining Nordstrom. While at Nordstrom he has worked on teams responsible for the Windows platform supporting Nordstrom.com, core Unix systems, and virtualization infrastructure. Today, Rob supports the Infrastructure Engineering team and is focusing his passion on infrastructure as code at an enterprise scale. He has always loved his work, but never has he been so excited about being in operations as he is right now. Sessions |
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Roy Osherove Author, Consultant & Trainer |
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Roy Osherove is a senior consultant at ITVerket, and the author of The Art Of Unit Testing and Notes to a software team leader. He is also one of the original ALT.NET organizers. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing, test-driven development and how to lead software teams. He frequently speaks at international conferences on these topics and others. Sessions |
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Sam Guckenheimer Product Owner Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft |
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Sam Guckenheimer is the Product Owner for Microsoft Visual Studio. Sam is also the author of Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. He has 25 years experience as architect, developer, tester, product manager, project manager and general manager in the software industry in the US and Europe. Currently, Sam is the Group Product Planner for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. In this capacity, he acts as chief customer advocate, responsible for the end-to-end external design of the next releases of these products. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Sam was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, now the Rational Division of IBM. He holds five patents on software lifecycle tools. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Sam is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University. Sessions[Keynote] Transforming Software Development in a World of Services |
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Sarah Goff-Dupont Bamboo Marketing Manager Atlassian |
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Sarah has been working with software teams for over a decade in various capacities including test automation engineer, agile coach and developer advocate. As a stickler for both quality and efficiency (read: “lazy perfectionist”), she is passionate about helping teams invest in smart processes and automating All The Things. Sessions |
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Scott Ambler ALM Thought Leader DAD Framework Scott Ambler + Associates |
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Scott W. Ambler is the Senior Consulting Partner of Scott Ambler + Associates, working with organizations around the world to help them to improve their software processes. He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organizational level. Scott is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. He is the (co-)author of several books, including Disciplined Agile Delivery, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal and he blogs about DAD at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com. Scott is also a Founding Member of the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the certification body for disciplined agile. He can be reached at scott [at] scottambler.com. Sessions[Keynote] Disciplined Agile Delivery: The Foundation for Scaling Agile |
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Scott Anderson Team Lead Avanade |
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Scott Anderson has been in the IT services industry for 16 years. Currently he is a team lead in the Global Delivery Management team at Avanade where he specializes in helping global organizations improve and optimize development teams, processes and tooling. He has extensive development and delivery experience with large scale distributed teams and is currently helping build the agile and ALM capabilities worldwide. Scott is also a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.Org SessionsAgile Transformation of a 20,000 Person Company – a Long Term Journey |
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Sean Kennedy OSLC Community Development Leader IBM Rational |
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Sean Kennedy has 10 years experience in the software industry, most of it at IBM. He has worked as a developer, support professional, team lead, customer engagements leader, and community development leader. Whatever he's done, he's always been an (undercover, sometimes) agent for change through continueous improvement and focus on business value. Since 2011 he has been an active member of the OSLC community and has been helping expand the community, and the use of OSLC technology. Sean speaks frequently about OSLC, delivers hands-on training for OSLC-implementers, and works with many organizations to understand the (positive, hopefully!) impact of OSLC on their business. Between 2009 and 2012 Sean regularly delivered IBM's internal Agile and Lean kick-start course: the Disciplined Agile Development Workshop. He believes success comes by facilitating the success of clients. SessionsFacilitating Stockdale: Confronting and Overcoming the Brutal Facts of Continuous Improvement |
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Sebastian Holst EVP & Chief Strategy Officer PreEmptive Solutions |
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Sebastian Holst is EVP and Chief Strategy Officer for PreEmptive Solutions. In this capacity, he is responsible for PreEmptive’s product roadmaps including their application analytics and application protection technologies. In addition, he has developed his own mobile applications and is a heavy user of application analytics himself. In describing application analytics patterns and practices, Sebastian draws on both his own personal experiences and those of the development teams he counsels. Sebastian is a regular speaker at technical conferences including TechEd US and Europe 2012, ALM Summit 2012, TechReady 16, and, in Nov., 2013, even testified before the US Congressional Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet on the role of analytics in continuous application improvement (excerpt here). SessionsApplication Analytics: What Every Application Stakeholder Should Know |
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Seth Eliot Principal Knowledge Engineer Microsoft |
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Seth Eliot is Principal Knowledge Engineer for Microsoft Test Excellence focusing on driving best practices for services and cloud development/testing across the company. He previously was Senior Test Manager, most recently for the team solving exabyte storage and data processing challenges for Bing, and before that enabling developers to innovate by testing new ideas quickly with users “in production” with the Microsoft Experimentation Platform. Testing in Production (TiP), software processes, cloud computing, and other topics are ruminated upon at Seth'sblog and on Twitter (@setheliot). Prior to Microsoft, Seth applied his experience at delivering high quality software services at Amazon.com where he led the Digital QA team to release Amazon MP3 download, Amazon Instant Video Streaming, and Kindle Services. Sessions |
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Simon Reindl Scrum Developer Trainer AgilityMind |
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Simon Reindl is a Scrum Developer Trainer based in the UK, who has been delivering training and coaching since 1999. He has been working with Scrum, Agile Development and Visual Studio Team System since 2005. Simon’s focus is in helping businesses delight their customers and development teams deliver the best quality code that they can. Sessions |
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Steve Denning Award-winning Author |
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Steve Denning is the author of the award-winning books, The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century, The Secret Language of Leadership and The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing program. In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos) He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia on leadership, innovation, business narrative and most recently, radical management. His clients have included many organizations, large and small, around the world, including GE, IBM, Microsoft, McKinsey, Shell, Netflix, Bristol Myers Squibb, Deloitte, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Syngenta, Danfoss, McDonalds, Unilever, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories, MWH, Ernst & Young, CRM Learning, Xerox, Oracle, Maritz, Target, Burns & McDonnell, Mitre Corporation, Innovation Council, Deluxe, Fetzer Foundation, Diageo (UK), UK Parliamentary Ombudsman, Nestle (Switzerland), Novo Nordisk (Denmark), International Energy Agency (Austria), Symbiosis (Austria), PMI (France), Ambrosetti (Italy), ARK group (UK, Asia, Australia), Air New Zealand, World Bank, UN, UNDP, US Army, USAID, CIA, NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency, NetHope, The Brookings Institution, American Institute of Architects, California Workforce Association, CIA, NSA, NIMA, FAA, NY State Government, Oregon State Government, Australian government ministries, New Zealand ministries and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway). Sessions |
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Steve Neely R&D Engineer Rally Software |
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Steve Neely is a research and development engineer at Rally Software. His interests include: software craftsmanship, Agile techniques, continuous delivery, distributed systems, web technologies, mobile and pervasive computing, informatics and data management. He likes to move fast and break things. SessionsContinuous delivery? Easy! Just Change Everything. (Well, maybe it isn’t that easy) |
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Steve Speicher Senior Technical Staff IBM Rational |
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Steve Speicher is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member who focuses on integrations and change management. He is the editor for the W3C Linked Data Platform specification. He is the lead for the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) Core and Change Management topic areas, which delivers open HTTP REST and Linked Data specifications, as well as implementations. Steve is committer and project co-lead for Eclipse Lyo. He formerly working in emerging standardization efforts in healthcare and compound documents (W3C). Sessions |
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Steven Borg Co-Founder & Strategist Northwest Cadence |
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Steven Borg is the Co-Founder and Principal ALM Consultant of Northwest Cadence. He has been a Microsoft ALM MVP since product inception in 2005, speaks regularly at software development and Visual Studio conferences and has authored Microsoft courseware and white papers on Team Foundation Server, regulatory compliance in software development, Scrum and lean. Steven has helped hundreds of organizations, both large and small, adopt Visual Studio ALM tools to improve their software development process, reduce costs, increase quality and speed delivery dates. His expertise lies in bringing successful lean and agile adoption to companies currently using traditional project management techniques. Steve also holds several other credentials including MCP, MCSD, MCT and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). SessionsWorkshop: Enterprise Agility Is Not an Oxymoron Metrics that Matter: Improving Lean and Agile, Kanban and Scrum |
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Steven Winter Director of Quality FIS Mobile |
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Steven Winter has been a powerhouse in QA for over 18 years successfully navigating and directing through an ever increasing diversity of technical and operational quality challenges. As Director of Quality for FIS Mobile, he’s responsible for the complete quality ecosystem for America’s leading provider of mobile financial services, including over 1000 clients, and the innovative power behind the nations first and most successful mobile payments initiative, the Starbucks Card Mobile. With deep experience in functional, automation, performance, and mobile quality Steven has successfully delivered high performance, world class QA operations to a wide array of companies and their technologies like Broderbund, First Data, Leapfrog, and PureDigital/Flip. SessionsContinuous Mobile Testing for Financial-Grade Quality Cloud Testing In the Mainstream: User stories from Industry Leaders |
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Thomas Murphy Research Director Gartner |
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Thomas Murphy is a research director with Gartner, where he is part of the Application Strategies and Governance group. Mr. Murphy has more than 25 years of experience in IT, spending time as a developer, product manager, technical editor and industry analyst. Prior to rejoining Gartner, he worked at Microsoft in the Visual Studio Team System group. Previously, he was an analyst with Meta Group and Gartner. He has served on the board of directors for the OMG and led product strategies at ObjectShare. Early in his career, he served as a technical editor at Software Development and AI Expert magazines and built custom tools for scientific research and embedded systems. His development experience includes embedded systems, Smalltalk, Java, and model-based environments and agile techniques. Mr. Murphy has degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at the Ohio State University and University of Utah. Sessions |
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Zubin Irani CEO cPrime |
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Zubin’s education includes a B.S from USC, and a joint Masters' from Columbia & UC Berkeley. He started his professional career as an Analyst at Deloitte and quickly worked his way up to a Senior Consultant before becoming the youngest Director at DirecTV. After a successful tenure, he moved to the Bay Area to become a co-founder and CEO of cPrime. cPrime has been ranked Top 50 fastest growing companies in the Bay Area 5 years in a row and is the largest Agile Training company in the United States. cPrime is a full service consultancy focused on Agile Transformation and Project Delivery and has built a successful practice delivering solutions for the biggest names in Silicon Valley and across the country. SessionsPrinciples of Agile Governance in the Enterprise - Recipes for Hybrid Organizations |
