Speakers

Gojko Adzic Neuri Ltd

Gojko Adzic got bitten by the specification-by-example bug five years ago. Since then, he has helped numerous teams implement these practices, written two books on the subject (Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse and Bridging the Communication Gap) and contributed to several opensource projects for specification by example. At the moment, Gojko is working on his third book, titled Specification by Example. Gojko runs Neuri Ltd, a UK based consultancy that helps ambitious teams from web startups to large financial institutions implement specification by example and agile testing practices. Gojko Adzic teaches Agile testing and domain driven design at Skills Matter.

 

Scott Allen Pluralsight

Scott Allen is the founder of OdeToCode LLC and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has over 16 years of experience in commercial software development and is the author of the Extreme ASP.NET column for MSDN Magazine.

 

Jamie Allsop NYSE-Euronext

I've been part of a distributed agile teams in different companies for the past 5 years and in that time learned a lot about agile development and distributed teams in general. Much of that experience went into developing agile-trac a free and open-source extension to the popular trac project management software. My recent interests have been in bringing agile development to the companies I work in. I’ve been fortunate to do this for reasonable project periods (up to 3 years in one case) and in truly distributed settings. This has been a good way to understand the effects of the changes and more importantly learn from them - what’s really important and what’s not. (Currently I'm the development manager for exchange platforms at NYSE-Euronext.)

 

Chris Aniszczyk Red Hat

Chris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is the co-author of The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley) book. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Eclipse Planning Council and has the honor to represent the committers on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are modularity, blogging, tooling and anything Eclipse. He’s always available to discuss open source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage.

 

Keith Braithwaite Zuhlke Engineering

Keith Brathwaite has been a Principal Consultant and Business Unit Leader at Zuhlke since 2006. He leads their Centre for Agile Practice in London, a group of engineers and consultants specialising in teaching, coaching and practising Agile development for clients in a wide range of industries around the world.

 

Richard Campbell Telerik

Richard Campbell has been involved with microcomputers and software since 1977. His career has spanned the industry both on the hardware and software sides, from manufacturing to sales, service, game development, line-of-business software and large scale systems. He's been deeply involved in creating new businesses around software, hardware, services and products in a huge range of roles, including technical, management and financing. During the halcyon days of the DotComBoom he was a consultant to venture capital firms providing technical due diligence and architectural direction. Today Richard is on the board of directors for Telerik (http://www.telerik.com), a leading vendor of development, team productivity, automated testing tools, UI components and content management solutions in the Microsoft space. He is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks (http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com), developing an appliance for web site performance. He's a partner in PWOP Productions, creating a variety of multimedia programs including ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers," (http://www.dotnetrocks.com) a podcast produced twice a week for more than 150,000 listeners in 120 countries. In addition he's the host of RunAs Radio (http://www.runasradio.com), a podcast for the IT Professional using Microsoft technologies. Richard also serves as a technical director for Penton Media, planning the content of magazines and conferences that engage technology professionals all over the world.

 

Ian Cooper

Ian Cooper has over 18 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile. He is test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group. http://www.dnug.org.uk

 

Stephen Crook Sybase

Stephen is a Senior Technical Presales Consultant specialising in Sybase's mobility products, SQL Anywhere, Afaria and Mobile Office. Stephen has been working in the mobility space for 10 years both in a professional services and presales capacity.

 

Erik Dörnenburg ThoughtWorks

Erik Dörnenburg is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks where he is helping clients with the design and implementation of enterprise software. With experience in Java, .NET, and other environments Erik is continually exploring new technology. Frequent exposure to overly complex software has made him interested in simple architectures and software visualisation as means to help people better understand architecture. Erik’s career in enterprise software began in the early nineties on the NeXTSTEP platform, and throughout his career he has been an advocate of agile values and Open Source software. He holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and has studied Computer Science and Linguistics at University College Dublin.

 

Richard Erwin Microsoft

Richard is an Application Lifecycle Management Specialist and part of the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft UK. Richard has been with Microsoft for 10 years starting as a Developer Support Engineer, troubleshooting and debugging complex customer development issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, Richard was a Software Engineer and gained a first class degree in Computer Science.

 

Dino Esposito Crionet

 

Neal Ford ThoughtWorks

Neal is an application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books "Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques", "JBuilder 3 Unleashed", and "Art of Java Web Development". Neal has also spoken extensively at national and international conferences.

 

Carl Franklin Pwop Studios

Carl Franklin is the host of the acclaimed .NET Rocks! and dnrTV podcasts, and executive producer of Hanselminutes and Run As Radio. Carl was an early adopter of .NET, spending 5 years providing hands-on training for his company, Franklins.Net. Carl is a Regional Director for Connecticut, and also an MVP. Carl is also a musician and audio/video producer. Contact Carl at carl@franklins.net

 

Thilo Frotscher T.Frotscher Systemsoftware-Entwicklung

Thilo Frotscher is an independent software architect specialized in Enterprise Java, Web services and XML. Most time of the year he spends doing hands-on project work for various clients. But he also provides training courses, teaching both Java and Web service technologies. His clients include organisations from many different industries, including financial services, tourism, research, the public sector and some of the largest IT companies worldwide.

 

Paul Goddard Agilify Ltd

Paul Goddard is an agile coach with experience of working with several scrum teams and projects, and is a keen practitioner and trainer of scrum and agile delivery. Starting as one of the first practicing ScrumMasters within BT (formerly British Telecom), he now acts as an independent coach for teams new to scrum and agile techniques. His coaching skills have been used on some of the largest agile transformation projects in the world to date, including multiple geographically dispersed teams using an offshore model. Paul's experience with enterprise scrum was widened while acting as a ScrumMaster for Nokia where he was involved with both applying, teaching and coaching scrum.

 

Ellen Gottesdiener EBG Consulting Inc.

Ellen Gottesdiener, Principal Consultant and Founder of EBG Consulting, Inc., is a requirements expert who works with both traditional and agile teams to help them deliver the right product at the right time. Her first book, Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002) describes how to use multiple models to elicit requirements in collaborative. Her second book, The Software Requirements Memory Jogger (GOAL/QPC, 2005) is the "go to" industry guide for requirements good practices. Ellen is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and has extensive experience as a professional workshop facilitator, focusing on helping projects start smart through facilitated workshops. Ellen is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), an agile coach, and agile trainer with a passion about agile requirements. She works with large, complex products and helps teams elicit just enough requirements to achieve iteration and product goals. She is an expert reviewer for the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®), a member of the IIBA® Endorsed Education Provider committee, and advisor for several industry conferences. Ellen Gottesdiener teaches Agile requirements and facilitation skills at Skills Matter.

 

Ben Hall

Ben Hall is a UK C# developer\tester with a strong passion for software development and loves writing code. Ben enjoys exploring different ways of testing software, including both manual and automated testing, focusing on the best ways to test different types of applications. He also loves developing web applications using ASP.net and Ruby on Rails. Ben is a C# MVP and maintains a blog at http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/benhall and http://blog.benhall.me.uk

 

Hadi Hariri JetBrains

Hadi Hariri is Tecnology Evangelist at JetBrains. His passions include software architecture and best practices. Book author and frequent contributor to developer publications, Hadi speaks at both national and international conferences and user groups. He is based in Spain where he lives with his wife and two sons and runs the Malaga .NET User Group.

 

Allan Kelly

Allan Kelly has held just about every job in the software world: system admin, tester, developer, product manager and development manager. Today he provides training and coaching to teams and companies in the use of Agile and Lean techniques to develop better software with better processes. He is the author of "Changing Software Development: Learning to become Agile", numerous journal articles and is currently working on a book of Business Strategy Patterns. Allan delivers training in association with Skills Matter and Develop Mentor (http://www.develop.com/contact). More about Allan can be found at his website, http://www.allankelly.net. Allan Kelly teaches agile methods for business analysts at Skills Matter

 

Eric Nelson Microsoft UK

After many years of developing on UNIX/RDBMS (and being able to get mortgages) Eric joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Technical Evangelist (and stopped being able to get mortgages due to his new 'unusual job title' in the words of his bank manager). He has spent most of his time working with ISVs to help them architect solutions which make use of the latest Microsoft technologies - from the beta of ASP 1.0 through to ASP.NET, from MTS to WCF/WF and from the beta of SQL Server 6.5 through to SQL Server 2008. Along the way he has met lots of smart and fun developers - and been completely stumped by many of their questions! In July 2008 he switched role from an Application Architect to a Developer Evangelist in the Developer and Platform Group. Currently Eric's interests include digging into the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and the Windows Azure Platform. At home, he battles rat infestations, comes second to the family dog and uses any spare moments he has after 10pm to team up and play online with and against friends - keep an eye out for 'erknel' and say 'hi'.

 

Ted Neward Neward & Associates

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

 

John Palmer Perforce

 

Roman Pichler Pichler Consulting Ltd

Roman Pichler helps his clients develop innovative and successful software products - products that customers love. He has a long track record in training and coaching individuals and teams in agile product management and Scrum, and ten years experience in helping companies embrace agile methods. Roman is the author of three books on Agile and Scrum including "Agile Product Management with Scrum" and a frequent speaker at international conferences. Find out more at http://www.romanpichler.com or visit his blog at http://www.allthingsproductowner.com.

 

Neil Robbins Semeosis

Currently working as a lead developer at a multinational consulting company, Neil has previously worked variously as a developer, architect, and consultant across a number of different verticals; in particular insurance, education, and web content management; and at companies ranging in size from the micro-startup with < 10 employees to the global megacorp with more than 150,000 employees. A regular attendee & speaker at user groups and other developer focused events, Neil was also a co-founder & organiser of the London A NoSqlSummer events. He can be found almost constantly on twitter @NeilRobbins.

 

Karl Scotland Rally Software

Karl Scotland is a versatile software practitioner with over 15 years of experience covering development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training. For the last 10 years he has been successfully applying Agile methods, and most recently has been a pioneer and advocate of using Kanban Systems for software development. Currently an Agile Coach with Rally Software in the UK, Karl is a founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium and the Limited WIP Society, and has previously championed Agile and Lean Thinking with the BBC, Yahoo! and EMC Consulting. Karl writes about his latest ideas on his blog at http://availagility.co.uk/

 

Oliver Sturm thinktecture

Oliver Sturm is a consultant and trainer on topics around .NET software architecture. An Associate Consultant at thinktecture, he is also well known as an author of training classes and articles, an expert on programming languages and a Microsoft C# MVP, and for his experience in the specialized area of DevExpress UI components and frameworks. Check out http://www.oliversturm.com for more information about him.

 

Geoff Watts

Gaeoff Watts is the longest active Certified Scrum Trainer in the UK as well as being the UK's first, and only, Certified Scrum Coach. He was the first ScrumMaster in British Telecom and then helped lead the largest agile transformation in the world there before helping transform organisations in various industries to use Scrum. He is a regular author of articles and blogs on using Scrum and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world, at universities and user groups.

 

Greg Young

Greg Young is an independent consultant who lives in two suitcases (literally). When not travelling around working for clients throughout the world you can often find him on the domain driven design list, blogging at codebetter.com, or floating upside down in a kayak through rapids.

 

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