Dennis was a significant contributor to Microsoft’s business architecture offering, earned certification as a Project Management Professional, in Lean Value Stream mapping, as an OPM3 Certified Consultant, as a Certified Scrum Master, and as a Kanban Coach. He has been published by Harvard Business Review, the Cutter Consortium, and has contributed to standards development and publications for PMI and IIBA. Dennis served in the USMC including Desert Storm, attended Florida State on a violin scholarship, helped coach the 2008 12u Girl's AAU National Champions, and has a degree in Organizational Psychology and Development.

A Seattle native with over 15 years in Software Engineering, Dominica has focused on improving the way people build and deploy products and services using metrics and positive mind-set methods. Dominica's background is in Configuration Management and Release Management. She has also been a Program Manager and Trainer of eCommerce organizations implementing project management with distributed teams. With David J. Anderson and Associates, Inc., Dominica provides Kanban Training and Coaching, Sustainability Facilitation, and Leadership for teams who have a passion for releasing and maintaining high-quality software to demanding production environments. Committed to doing the right thing, Dominica studies business sustainability, global social matters and corporate social responsibility. Dominica holds a BS in Information Computer Sciences from the University of Hawaii.

President, Reinertsen & Associates. For over 30 years, Don Reinertsen has focused on helping companies find better approaches for managing product development. He got his early management consulting experience at McKinsey & Co., and was later Senior Vice President of Operations at Zimmerman Holdings, a private diversified manufacturing company. He is the coauthor and author of three popular books on product development and taught executive courses on this topic at California Institute of Technology for 15 years. He is chairman of the LSSC Technical Advisory Board.

Dr. Paul D. Nielsen is Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a Federally Funded Research and Development Center operated by Carnegie Mellon University. The SEI advances software engineering principles and practices through focused research and development, which is transitioned to the broad software engineering community.

The SEI serves as a global leader in process improvement and networked systems survivability. Additionally, the SEI is a key innovator in software architecture, software product lines, interoperability, the integration of software intensive systems, and the increasing overlap of software and systems engineering. The SEI also provides direct support to more than 50 U.S. government agencies in their efforts to efficiently and effectively acquire new software and systems. Since joining the SEI in August 2004, Nielsen has overseen the development and expansion of the CMMI product suite, its partner network, and CERT—SEI’s network/cyber security efforts—and the growth of the SEI to an organization employing more than 600 employees with operating revenues of $120 million annually. In addition, he has overseen an increase in research activities related to software architecture, complex systems, and cybersecurity to address both present and future challenges. In all areas, he has expanded interactions with key stakeholders, customers and the global software engineering community.

Prior to his arrival as SEI Director, Nielsen served in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a major general after 32 years of distinguished service. As commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio for more than four years, he managed the Air Force’s science and technology budget of more than $3 billion annually. He also served as the Air Force’s technology executive officer, determining the investment strategy for the full spectrum of Air Force science and technology activities.

In 2010, Dr. Nielsen was elected as a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He served as the AIAA President from 2007-2008 and is a member of the AIAA Foundation Board of Trustees. Nielsen serves on several advisory boards including the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Hertz Foundation, a non-profit that awards graduate school fellowships in the applied sciences.

Education BS, U.S. Air Force Academy; MS, University of California, Davis; MBA, University of New Mexico; PhD, University of California, Davis

Eric Landes has been involved with the IT industry for close to 20 years. After attempting to implement pair programming in a health care company, he was bitten by the agile bug, over 7 years ago. After an XP immersion class with Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin, he has passionately been using and improving teams using Agile and lean methods for the past 5 years. Eric has presented on Kanban, automated acceptance tests, and other agile topics at different agile conferences, and user group meetings. Eric is a CSM and a Microsoft MVP. For more information, check out his web site, http://ericlandes.com

Eric Passmore is a technical executive for MSN at Microsoft. Previously Eric has held senior management positions at AOL and CNET Networks and has managed teams of over 700 people both onshore and offshore.

Erik Huddleston is CTO at Dachis Group, where he leads technology strategy and development. Prior to joining Dachis Group, Mr. Huddleston was CTO of Inovis, a SaaS integration company, where he ran product management and developoment and helped lead a large-scale agile rollout. He has been a practitioner of agile and lean techniques since 1988.

Frode Odegard is the founder and CEO of the Lean Software Institute, a global consulting group helping organizations in the IT sector begin and sustain Lean Transformations. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Organizations he has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., Lockheed Martin, Honeywell Aerospace, Candle, Conexant Systems, and Plantronics. Frode is currently writing a book on Lean in the IT Sector. Frode is the founder of five companies. He grew up in Norway and immigrated to the United States shortly after starting his first software company in high school. He has lived in California for twenty years, but spends about half his time overseas. His interests outside work include languages, history, philosophy, mathematics, psychology, and strength training. Frode is an avid GTD practitioner and advocate. He remains active on Twitter as @odegard.

Gerard Meszaros is an independent software development consultant and trainer with 20+ years experience in software and over a decade of experience in agile methods such as Scrum, Lean and eXtreme Programming. He has also been one of the early proponents of including User/Usage Centered Design (UxD) practices on agile projects and has applied automated unit and acceptance testing on projects ranging from full-on eXtreme Programming to traditional waterfall development in wide range of industries. He has been a frequent presenter of papers and tutorials at major conferences such as Agile 200x, OOPSLA, JAOO and SD West/Best Practices. His book xUnit Test Patterns – Refactoring Test Code was published in May 2007 by Addison Wesley in the Martin Fowler Signature Series and won a Jolt Productivity Award in the Best Technical Book category.

Greg Yezersky is the founder and president of the Institute of Professional Innovators (IPI). He is a renowned TRIZ expert (certified by Genrich Altshuller in 1988, the creator of TRIZ) with more than 25 years of experience. He has been in the business of innovation since 1983. Greg has conducted hundreds of seminars on the subject worldwide, taught thousands of students and successfully consulted for many Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Yezersky is the creator of the General Theory of Innovation (GTI), a scientific prescriptive theory that enables creation of meaningful innovations on-dema

Inbar Oren is working with development and management teams to improve their business by employing Lean and Agile methodologies. Inbar brings with him 15 years of experience in the software industry ranging from development to project and product management. He is currently working with AgileSparks, Israel’s leading Agile consulting company.

Inbar focuses on the cultural and people aspects of Lean transformations as well as on the interaction between the Business and Development of organizations and helping managers understand their role in a Lean Transformation.

Inbar has an MA in Buddhism and East Asian Culture from the Tel Aviv University, speaks Japanese and holds a second degree black belt in the Japanese martial arts of Jodo and Iaido. This helps him understand some of the cultural aspects behind Lean.

Israel Gat is Director of Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management practice. Dr. Gat's executive career spans top technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Digital, and EMC. He is recognized as the architect of the agile transformation at BMC Software and led the development of products such as BMC Performance Manager and Microsoft Operations Manager. Dr. Gat currently splits his time between consulting and writing, focusing on technical debt, lrage-scale implementations of lean software methods, and agile business service management ("devops"). He is the author of the recent e-book, The Concise Executive Guide to Agile,published with Cutter and the IEEE, and posts frequently at The Agile Executive: http://theagileexecutive.com/

Janice Linden-Reed is a lean advocate working in a variety of domains to promote the use of Lean and Kanban for better technical development. She is a Lean-Agile Certified Scrum Master. Janice has 20 years of experience as a project manager, including agile and kanban management work. To help novice users, Janice created the Kanban101.com website. She has presented to agile groups on kanban fundamentals and on lean-agile transition topics. Janice is a Program Manager with Net Objectives and an Associate with David J. Anderson and Associates. She is an organizer with the Lean Software and Systems Conference and an administrator on the Limited WIP Society website.

Jason Little is an independent Agile Coach and Trainer based in Toronto Canada. Prior to becoming an independent coach in June 2009, Jason has been working with software development teams since the mid-90's as a web developer and began a career in project management in 2002. In addition to being a CSP and CSPO, Jason is actively involved with and facilitates meetings for Silicon Halton (a local technology group) and is also involved in local Agile user groups as well as Agile coaching circles.

Jason is currently working on an eBook about Agile transformation.

Jasper has experience in multiple teams as a facilitator and part of the Kanban team since August 2009. He has worked in and around 10 teams with various levels of Agile maturity. He started teams and coached people facilitating the teams. His experience is based on learning in the pilot and, after that, closely following the teams and introducing Kanban to new teams.

Speaker at XP 2010: Kanban at an Insurance company (are you sure?)

Joakim is an Agile & Lean Coach with Avega Group, Sweden. He helps clients improve through coaching and mentoring of individuals, teams and organizations. This is often accomplished using Agile and Lean software development methodologies such as Scrum, XP and Kanban. When working as a developer coach Joakim favors Test Driven Development, refactoring and evolutionary object-oriented design, mainly on the .NET platform. He is an organizer of, and active participant in, conferences, networks and user groups in the Agile, Lean and .NET communities.

Dr. Weaver received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Rhodes College. He has worked in the space and aircraft industries for 42 years.

John was responsible for the development of the avionics system architectures on several large aircraft programs, including the C-130J, the C-27J, and the C-5M. He is an emeritus Lockheed Martin Technical Fellow and a Certified Enterprise Architect. He has represented Lockheed Martin to numerous trade organizations and government forums. For the past six years, Dr.Weaver has been the engineering Director of Air System Design and Integration at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company.

Joshua Kerievsky is an entrepreneur, author, programmer and globally recognized expert in Agile software development. He is passionate about excellent software and discovering better/faster ways to produce it.

His company, Industrial Logic, is often described as a “group of agile rock stars” who have spent the last decade steadily improving their own agility and helping others grow from beginners to advanced agile practitioners.

Joshua and his colleagues begin engagements with assessments that help groups understand current strengths and challenges, consider where they’d like to be tomorrow and map out strategies for getting there.

Leading companies such as Google, GE, HP, Standard Life and ThoughtWorks rely on Industrial Logic’s Agile eLearning and live workshops to help thousands of people around the world practice and learn valuable skills from Extreme Programming to Lean/Agile methods.

Joshua and his colleagues are skilled coaches who provide a mix of technical, managerial and entrepreneurial wisdom in their work with executives, managers, customers, analysts, developers, testers, coaches-in-training and others. We judge our coaching engagements by whether we helped engender a culture of continuous improvement.

Joshua’s 2004 bestselling book, Refactoring to Patterns, won a Jolt Cola award and has been translated to 8 languages.

Joshua lives with his wife and three children in Berkeley, California. For more information about Joshua and Industrial Logic, please visit industriallogic.com.

Julian Everett is a freelance architect with 14 years development and design experience working on projects for media and financial services organisations. He is particularly interested in the use of real options to inform prioritization and architectural decision-making, and the application of ideas from evolutionary theory to software product development. He currently works as the Chief Architect of the BBC's international online services.

Ms. Julie B. Cohen is a member of the Air Force team of the Acquisition Support Program (ASP) at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). She is currently involved in activities to support and improve acquisition practices in the Air Force and Intelligence Communities. She recently completed a 3-year assignment as an Air Force civil servant on the Transformational Communications System where she was the deputy Program Manager for the network operation management segment. Prior to joining the SEI, Julie was a Program Manager at Brashear LP where she led the development of the Fire Control System for the Army’s Objective Individual Combat Weapon program. Julie was previously employed with Marconi, where she worked as a program manger on several enterprise communication systems. Julie is a retired Air Force Officer. During her Air Force career, she worked in various acquisition positions including assignments in the F-16 program office, the Flight Training program office, the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. She is a certified Program Manager Professional and attained a Level 3 Certification as a DoD Program Manager.

Katherine Kirk is currently the Project Manager of the BBC iPlayer Bigscreen team, who also dabbles as a Process Improvement Analyst in other divisions of the BBC. She is an active participant of a community of Lean and Agile practitioners in the BBC Future Media and Technology division who explore and challenge the status quo through experimenting and collaborating. She is particularly interested in edge-cases and the cultural interaction between hierarchical management and Agile teams. She supports this interest by studying an MSc in Software Engineering at University of Oxford, specializing in Process Improvement, Managing Quality and Risk, and Software Systems Security

Lean/Agile Transformation Lead at Cisco

Research Fellow, The Procter & Gamble Company.Kevin Norwood received his PhD in physical chemistry from Iowa State University and is a Research Fellow in Laundry Product Development at Procter & Gamble. He leads technical work to create and apply modeling approaches to formulate laundry products. He started with P&G in 1991 and has worked in Analytical Science, Technology, and Formulation, where he has spent the majority of his career.

Kristin Poole is a Senior Solution Manager with Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business. As product owner for the Online Consumer Support platform Kristin has driven the execution and delivery of the global launch of the support websites for Xbox and Kinect; both aimed to enable customer self-help via the web. Kristin is passionate about business value driven software development, and is a leader in driving agile methodology adoption within her organization.

Liz Keogh works as an independent Lean and Agile Coach and trainer based in London. She is a well-known blogger and international speaker, a core member of the BDD community and a keen proponent of Real Options.

Liz has a strong technical background with over 10 years experience in delivering and coaching others to deliver large-scale enterprise applications, which she now combines with a focus on psychology, NLP and adult learning. She has pioneered the application of learning models in measuring team maturity and coaching progress, and most of her work now focuses on Lean or Agile and architectural organizational transformations, and the use of positive language, targets and metrics in facilitating change.

She is also a professional science-fiction and haiku poet.

CEO and founder of Shojiki Solutions, a business dedicated to coaching, consulting and training on Lean-Agile, Kanban, and Value Innovation. 24 years of experience in the USA, Japan, and Mexico. Started practicing agile in 2004. Experience at large organizations (Apple Inc., Netscape/AOL) and at startups in the life sciences (Ingenuity Systems), online entertainment (Vuze Inc., Akimbo Systems), online services (When.com), and online socialization industries (Electric Communities). PhD and MS in Artificial Intelligence form the University of Tokushima, Japan. BE in Computer Engineering, honors, from the National University of Mexico.

Sun Tzu once said the ultimate responsibility of generalship is manover into a position of success.

After 9 years as a developer I decided to learn what it takes to create the environment for software success. During my journey I’ve helped helped several software teams deliver with confidence, scaled Scrum over 10+ teams (cutting game cycle time from 24 months to 4), and improved life at operations and support using Kanban.

I’m an author of the book ”Kanban and Scrum, making the most of both” and regularly train and coach in Lean, Kanban and TDD.

http://blog.crisp.se/mattiasskarin

Mike Cox is a Senior Consultant for Net Objectives. He was previously with Lockheed Martin Corporation where he held a series of increasingly responsible positions in operations and program management, performing diverse functional and programmatic roles that spanned disciplines from rocket propulsion, structural engineering, and software integration to leadership development, program performance, and lean/agile implementations and process improvement. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Mike was most recently Director of Corporate Program Performance, responsible for raising the performance level of the 7000+ Control Account Managers (CAM) across the Corporation. His accomplishments included the identification, training, process improvement, and career development of CAMs from all programs and functions across the Lockheed Martin enterprise.

Mike’s roles have included a staff assignment at the Corporate Headquarters Operating Excellence office as an engineering subject matter expert in lean process improvement specializing in lean/agile software development.

Nate McKie before starting Asynchrony Solutions had 12 years of industry experience in corporate IT. He had worked on significant global integration projects in a broad range of financial services companies, including commercial finance, insurance, and mortgage banking. He helped build Asynchrony Solutions into a leading provider of custom software development for large corporations and the DoD. In 2003, Nate became interested in Agile as a way of harnessing the amazing R&D work that Asynchrony was doing into a mature process that can create ready-to-ship applications for our customers. Since then, Asynchrony has become a leading practitioner of Agile techniques and ideas and has spread the disciplines of quality code and rapid implementation throughout its customer base. In addition to his role as Chief Technology Officer, Nate coaches teams in Agile techniques and has taught classes in Agile and Test-Driven Development to various Asynchrony clients.

Nick Oostvogels is a consultant who has worked at different companies in various industries.

At the moment he helps teams to delivering successful projects in whatever role necessary. He is currently working for 4C Technologies, a Belgian consulting firm, often as a project manager or coach.

He is a proud father of a daughter and twin boys, and enjoys outdoor sports such as mountain bike,running, soccer and drinking a Duvel afterwards. Nick is a regular blogger and enjoys speaking and learning at conferences.

Blog: noostvog.wordpress.com Twitter: @NickOostvogels

Senior Master Black Belt in Six Sigma and Lean Product Development, Goodyear Tire. Norbert Majerus has worked all areas in Product Development for 30 years including: materials development, competitive benchmarking, product design, manufacturing equipment design etc .... Norbert is a six sigma master black belt and a lean business master. Current activities include implementing a global lean product development system at Goodyear.

Phillip Cave is a Senior Consultant with Net Objectives. His career has spanned 21 years where he has had the privilege of delivering software solutions as an engineer, PM, team manager, executive and consultant. Pivotal moments in his journey led him to understand and execute Extreme Programming as an engineer in a software company as well as a “lean leader” in a 600+ person IT organization. His Lean consultant work has taken him to such companies as Starbucks, Motorola, Chase & Microsoft.

Ravindar Gujral is an Agile Coach and Project Manager with a strong technical background who has helped organizations, teams and individual programmers learn high productivity techniques for delivering software. He incorporates the values, principles and practices of agile and lean software development in both the work and the advice he gives. He has a proven track record for improving and simplifying processes used for large complex software projects by acting as a change agent and creating high performing teams.

Russell is creator of the popular getKanban board game. He has over fifteen years experience in IT as a software developer, development manager, agile coach, and consultant. He specializes in Kanban consulting, coaching, and training through his company getKanban. Russell lives with his wife and three young children in Wellington, New Zealand.

I am the CTO and founder of Rally Software. I am living the dream with a great team of people and some of the worlds best and brightest software teams as customers. Rally is here to help move the technology industry to a service model from a product model. I hope this leads to changes, as Paul Hawkin and the Lovin’s describe in Natural Capitalism, to break the take-make-waste cycle in the world. (See Chapter 7, “Muda, Service and Flow”) You can follow all of my efforts in this area in my posts on Greening of the Software and High Tech Industry. I believe that we need empowered teams to solve the complex problems of this century. I have seen Agile teams achieve 2 and 4 times better throughput of value and elimination of waste. With those kinds of improvements we really could meet the world-wide 80% reductions in CO2 necessary to stop global warming. I speak on Agile methods, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship regularly. In addition to trying to change the technology industry, I am trying to balance my work in capital markets with volunteer work in the social and environment parts of the economy. I like the picture of this at conservation economy. I am a the CEO of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado, a trustee with NRDC's Environmental Entrepreneurs and a board member at Friend's School in Boulder. I live in Boulder with my wife, son Gus and a menagerie of animals including horses, dogs, cats, a salamander, chickens, goats, and two canaries. I am a place person with a huge garden and will never leave Colorado. The lake sailing, skiing, mountain biking, trail running and fly fishing are all easy accessible to a family that works.

Siddharta Govindaraj is the founder of Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd, a company that develops products for teams that follow Agile and Kanban. Siddharta has six years of experience with Agile of which the last three years have been in applying Kanban. He was a speaker at the Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 in Atlanta. Siddharta is based in Chennai, India.

Siddharta was an early adopter of Kanban and has been involved with Agile for fize years, including Kanban for the last three years. He was a speaker at the Lean Software& Systems Conference 2010 in Atlanta.

Sreekanth Tadipatri has been a practitioner of software development, software quality assurance and project management for over 12 years. He has helped transform more than 50 projects and 100 distributed teams into adopting/practicing Agile. Sreekanth is based in Bangalore, India.

Sreekanth got interested in Kanban about two years ago and started using it in some teams on an experimental basis. In his consulting engagements with software development teams, he has helped teams adopt/ integrate kanban boards and WIP limits with Agile/Scrum.

Stephen Chin is the Chief Agile Methodologist at GXS, where he is leading a large-scale Lean/Agile rollout with hundred of developers spread out across the globe. He also authored the leading reference on the JavaFX Platform and is an internationally recognized speaker on Rich Client Technologies and Agile Portfolio Planning. Most recently, Mr. Chin developed an innovative, open source Product Portfolio Kanban tool that has become the cornerstone of Rally Software's new Roadmap Planning offering. He can be followed on twitter @steveonjava and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/

Suzanne Miller is a senior member of the technical staff in the Air Force Group of the Software Engineering Institute's Acquisition Support Program. Her current role involves bringing her wide diversity of expertise in maturity models, technology transition, complex systems governance, systems engineering, and organizational change management to complex Air Force acquisition programs. She also supports development and delivery of training and transition products for CMMI for Services, and is a team member on an ASP project exploring and writing about the application of agile methods in DoD acquisition programs. Mrs. Miller is the co-author of CMMI Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement. Prior to her work at the SEI, Mrs. Miller spent 12 years at Lockheed Missile and Space Company in various software, process improvement, and technology transition roles.

Tim Smith is Vice President for Engineering and Design at SRAM Corporation - a leading designer and manufacturer of high performance bicycle components that sells more than $500M USD worldwide every year. Tim started as a design engineer at SRAM in 1996 and since that time has led the evolution of the product development process. That evolution took SRAM from a process that generated one product per year in a single product category in a single factory, to one that currently produces 50+ in a given model year across 20+ product categories, at 5 factories with 70+ projects active at any given time. Lean product development principles and initiatives have been a key element in this evolution.

Travis George has almost a decade of professional experience developing games, and is currently a Sr. Producer at Riot Games where he oversees Gameplay Production on the company’s first title League of Legends.

Throughout the course of development on League of Legends, Travis led a multitude of cross-discipline teams that used a mix of Scrum or Kanban to achieve their objectives successfully. Adapting to a wide variety of challenges and goals associated with delivering a ground-breaking product to market was helped in no small part by creating an organizational culture that embraces Agile practices.

Travis originally entered the industry as a game designer, but in recent years has transitioned to Production where he has embraced Agile development practices such as Kanban and Scrum to help teams iterate quickly, reduce uncertainty and ultimately deliver higher quality products to players.

Troy Magennis is a Microsoft C# MVP and a keen traveler who currently works for Travelocity, which manages the travel and leisure websites travelocity.com, lastminute.com, and zuji. As vice president of Architecture, he leads a talented team of architects spread across four continents, committed to being the traveler's champion. Technology has always been a passion. After cutting his teeth on early 8-bit personal computers, Troy moved into electronic engineering (assembly language coding), which later led to positions in software application development and architecture for some of the most prominent corporations in automotive, banking, and online commerce.

Walter Bodwell is the founder of Planigle, a company that provides consulting, training, and tools to help teams get the most out of agile development. Mr. Bodwell's first experience with agile techniques was as the VP of Software Development for Evity (later BMC) in the late 1990s. As Senior Director of Engineering at BMC, he helped to roll out agile development to groups of up to 150 engineers across multiple continents.

Yuval is an Agile Coach helping individuals and organization ease their path to Agility and Engineering excellence, focusing on Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and effective R&D in general. Yuval comes from the R&D management world where he practiced what he now preaches.

Starting 1994, Yuval held various positions in IT and R&D, leading up to VP R&D of several IT technology startups where he introduced agile methodologies, as well as served as Product Owner on various occasions. Today, Yuval is a senior consultant in the Agilesparks team, engaged with several enterprise-scale global R&D organizations.

Yuval is a practicing Certified Scrum Master since 2007, a CSP and CSPO and is actively consulting multiple enterprise organizations. Yuval holds a BA in Math and Computer Sciences from the Tel Aviv Open University.