XP2012 Speakers

Marcus Ahnve

Tobias Anderberg

Tobias is a consultant at the Stockholm based company Agical AB, although he himself is based in the southern parts of sweden. He has practiced agile since 2004 and has since then spoken at several conferences including Agila Sverige, Turku Agile Day and XP2010.

Fabio Armani

Fabio Armani currently holds the role of CTO and CEO at important IT companies with a distinct vocation for Lean & Agility. His consultancy work is related to both technological, and human aspects of software development. He holds professional courses on Agile methodologies, Object Oriented Architectures and Design Patterns. He is considered an open-minded and pragmatic person.

As an entrepreneur, he founded and managed a consulting firm "OpenWare" and an independent musical label "Different Lands".

Fabio has a degree in astrophysics and had worked, both as a researcher and as a senior manager, in the IT industry for over 25 years. He lives in Rome with his wife Emilia, two wonderful children (Giulia and Luca) and his sweet and messy dog: Axel.

He is Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Currently Fabio is in the course to obtain the certification as a CSC: Certified Scrum Coach by the Scrum Alliance.

He is a composer of jazz and electronic music and he plays with his world fusion ensembles: Terre Differenti and Otras Tierras.

Fabio writes on his personal blogs on a lot of topics related to Agile and Lean methodologies, Object Oriented, Software Craftmanship and advanced Refactoring techniques.

• Lean Agile Minds @wordpress
• Lean Agile Minds @blogspot

Jason Ayers

With 20 years working with Smalltalk and Agile techniques, Jason currently looks after the Smalltalk business in Europe and Africa for Cincom.

Emily Bache

Emily Bache is an experienced programmer with a focus on the engineering practices which make agile methods work. Working as an independent consultantfor Bache Consulting, she helps teams to improve the way they build software. Emily has worked for many years using practices like Test Driven Development and Text-Based Testing, in organizations as diverse as small startupsto multinational concerns. She speaks regularly at international events such as Agile Testing Days, XP2011 and Scandinavian Developer Conference.

Geoff Bache

Geoff Bache is a Test Automation Expert at Jeppesen Systems (a subsidiary of Boeing), where he develops the open source tools TextTest and StoryText. He works closely with the System Test group supplying them with advice and tooling, and is heavily involved in the company’s ongoing transition to agile methods. Geoff is a regular speaker at international events suchas Agile Testing Days, EuroPython and Scandinavian Developer Conference.

Jim Barritt

Jim is a Lead Consultant for ThoughtWorks (www.thoughtworks.com). His agile journey began in 2001 whilst working in an iterative development cycle and taking up the call of XP practices such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Pair Programming. Since that timehe has worked as a Tech Lead and Technical mentor for many organisations including The Guardian, Autotrader, the BBC and Opodo.

Jims' core passion is the code, which he has been writing since an early age. He believes that unreleased code is tragic, and as a result strives to create development environments that allow rapid, reliable and stress-free deployment to production.

Recently Jim was a trainer on the ThoughtWorks University Internal training programme helping raw graduate recruits to ThoughtWorks make thier way through their first agile project.

Jim's blog is at http://jimbarritt.com and he is @jimbarritt on Twitter.

Tarang Baxi

Tarang has 10+ years of experience in a variety of software delivery and consulting roles including analysis, project management, IT strategy consulting, and agile coaching. He has worked with a number of distributed agile delivery teams in the last 5 years, with ThoughtWorks, in India and the US. He presents frequently on agile analysis and project management topics, both internally at ThoughtWorks and externally.

Jan Bosch

Jan Bosch is professor of software engineering and co-director of the software research center at Chalmers University Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Earlier, he worked as Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit Inc where he also lead Intuit's Open Innovation efforts and headed the central mobile technologies team. Before Intuit, he was head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Before joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he holds a professorship in software engineering. He received a MSc degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden. His research activities include compositional software engineering, software ecosystems, software architecture, software product families and software variability management. He is the author of a book “Design and Use ofSoftware Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approach” published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press), (co-)editor of several books and volumes in, among others, the Springer LNCS series and (co-)author of a significant number of research articles. He is editor for Science of Computer Programming, has been guest editor for journal issues, chaired several conferences as general and program chair, served on many program committees and organized numerous workshops.

Daniel Brolund

Daniel Brolund is a software developer that always seethings to improve, to the joy or grief of his fellow workers. He has successfully worked with global web sites deployed on hundredsof servers, desktop applications for just a few users, and online gaming applications just to mention a few. He has also done death-marches and a huge big-bang catastrophe.

With Ola Ellnestam, Daniel is the author of The Mikado Method.

Clarke Ching

I am one of the key Agile thought-leaders in for General Electric which, when you count the number of software developers, is among the top-15 biggest software development companies in the world. The biggest part of my job is selling - sometimes blatantly, sometimes subtly - the benefits of Agile.

I am, primarily, an expert in applying Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to software development and over 20,000 people have read my (free online) business parable “Rocks into Gold” which tells Agile story as astory, explaining in business and personal terms why Agile thinking works.

Lars-Ola Damm

Lars-Ola Damm works at Ericsson where he has over 10 years of experience from large-scale software development. He has at Ericsson worked in agile environments for several years, e.g. as developer, agile coach, trainer, and driver of global agile implementation programs. Furthermore he has a Ph.D. in the field of Software Engineering, with focus on efficiency and in particular on how to find faults earlier in a more cost-effective way.

Torgeir Dingsøyr

Torgeir Dingsøyr works with software process improvement and knowledge management projects as a senior scientist at SINTEF Information and Communication Technology. He co-edited the book “Agile Software Development: Current Research and Future Directions”, and wrote his doctoral thesis on “Knowledge Management in Medium-Sized Software Consulting Companies” at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he isnow Adjunct Associate Professor. His current research interests include software process improvement, agile software development, and knowledge management in software engineering.

Grzegorz Dziemidowicz

Greg has been running coding dojos at Nokia Berlin for almost a year now.

He facilitated the first CodeRetreat in Poland in 2010 (in Wroclaw). He helped to organize the first CodeRetreat in Germany in July 2011 and then facilitated CodeRetreat Berlin during Global Day of CodeRetreat in December 2011.

Last year during XP2011 in Madrid Greg was a student volunteer.

Jutta Eckstein

Jutta Eckstein is an independent coach, consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over fifteen years experience in developing applications. She has helped many teams and organizations all over the world to make the transition to an agile approach. She has a unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. This is also the topic of her books 'Agile Software Development in the Large' and 'Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams'. She is a member of AgileAlliance and a member of the program committee of many different European and American conferences in the area of agile development, object-orientation and patterns.

Ola Ellnestam

Ola Ellnestam likes to combine people, technology and business which is best done with simple means and flexible processes. More than that he likes to share his knowledge and experiences because that’s how new insights are created according to him.

With Daniel Brolund, Ola is the author of The Mikado Method.

Steven Fraser

STEVEN FRASER joined the Cisco Research Center as Director in July 2007 with responsibilities for fostering university re¬search collaborations, managing PhD recruiting, and technology transfer. Prior to joining Cisco Research, Steven was a Senior Staff member of Qualcomm’s Learning Center in San Diego, leading software learning programs and creating the corporation’s internal technical conference (QTech Forum). Steven held a variety of technology strategy roles at BNR and Nortel including: Process Architect, Senior Manager (Disruptive Technology and Global External Research), and Advisor (Design Process Engineering). In 1994 he spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) collaborating with the “Application of Soft¬ware Models” project on the development of team-based domain analysis (software reuse) tech¬niques. Fraser has organized multiple conference panels and was the Corporate Support Chair for OOPSLA’08 and OOPSLA’09. He was the Tutorial Chair for XP2008 and the Tutorial Co-Chair for ICSE’09. Fraser holds a doctorate in EE from McGill University in Montréal – and is a senior member of both the ACM and the IEEE.

Lior Friedman

Lior Friedman (http://imistaken.blogspot.com) is a full-fledged Agile Coach and co-founder of Practical Agile. With more than 15 years as an IT professional, he promotes agile values helping companies adopt these principles and adapt such practices into their own local context. After leading the development of cutting edge testing tools at Typemock Ltd. and helping numerous companies with their TDD implementation; he currently provides training, mentoring and high end consulting services to clients, (specializing in AUT, TDD and general agile transitions)

Ivana Gancheva

Ivana has experience as an Agile developer, project manager and change agent. She establishes links between developers and business. She is a leader and a community contributor. She is a relentless critical thinker who likes to listen between the lines. She strives for continuous improvement, inspires and links people. She lives in Trondheim, and adores rollerblading.

Markus Gärtner

Markus Gärtner studied computer sciences until 2005. In 2010 he joined it-agile GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, after having been a testing group leader for three years at Orga Systems GmbH. Markus is the co-founder of the European chapter in Weekend Testing, a black-belt instructor in the Miagi-Do school of Software Testing, contributes to the ATDD-Patterns writing community as well as the Software Craftsmanship movement. Markus regularly presents at Agile and testing conferences, as well as dedicating himself to writing about testing, foremost in an Agile context.

James Grenning

James Grenning trains, coaches and consults worldwide. With more than thirty years of software development experience, both technical and managerial, James brings knowledge, skill, and creativity to software development teams and their management. As his professional roots are in embedded software, James’ mission is to bring state-of-the-art technical and management practices to embedded development teams. He is the author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C. He invented Planning Poker, an estimating technique used around the world, and participated in the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

Andrea Heck

Andrea Heck is working at Siemens Healthcare as change agent and agile coach. After many years in different roles of software development, she proposed and successfully lead the agile transition of a big distributed software development organization. She always tries to learn from others and keep improving.

Steve Holyer

Steve Holyer is a scrum master, developer and coach for Liip Agile Web Development (liip.ch). He was initially skeptical of agile development, but then embraced it enthusiastically when he realized how scrum and after that how the XP practices allowed him to deliver better software in a saner, collaborative way. He also advises lean startups like PikPerfect.com in the technical and social aspects of doing agile development with remote teams.

Bent Jensen

Pioneer in applying agile methods in Denmark. Been leading agile teams since 2000. Since 2006 Coach and Consultant with clients in Denmark and internationally. Has always been focused on the intersect between self-organization and management, between efficient development and innovation and how to push the methods to their limits.

Oana Juncu

Agile supporter I commit to a maximum involvement, as an Agile oragnization coach to make organizations embrace Agile values while bringing awareness and desire to change their current set-up into collaborative and self-sustained ecosystems. I also believe that sharing knowledge and value pairs is one a main goal for Agile community members , therefore I stay involved in the Agile International community. I am very happy to be on the board of Agile Tour board , a low-cost that sustains Agile development in local communities (“Proxy Agile”) , and to have participated ,as an organizer, to the first edition of ALE un-conference, in September 2011 , in Berlin . You may find more about me on http://fr.linkedin.com/in/oanajuncu

Joakim Karlsson

Joakim has been working with software development for fifteen years - both as a software developer and as manager for software development teams. He likes to focus both on the technical and the interpersonal aspects of creating software together.

He has worked with helping teams improve their development techniquesand ability to produce quality software that meets the need of all stakeholders. This includes coaching teams in design techniques as well as helpingteams communicate in a more effective manner.

His goal is to recreate the feeling you have when you're part of a project that works. When the team is buzzing with activity. When all stakeholders pull in the same direction. When you use what you learn about the product, and about the working methods you use, in your quest to constantly improve. When you're, quite simply, having fun.

Tom Kealey

Committed to creating a better working day.

Patrick Kua

Patrick Kua works as an active, generalising specialist for ThoughtWorks and dislikes being put into a box. Patrick is often found leading technical teams, frequently coaching people and organisations in lean and agile methods, and sometimes facilitating situations beyond adversity. Patrick is fascinated by elements of learning and continuous improvement always helping others to develop enthusiasm for these same elements. Patrick has actively contributed to the last series of XP20xx conferences and presented at many more.

Eduard Kunce

Eduard Kunce /Czech Republic/ As a software engineer, Eduard /Czech Republic/ started to use SCRUM back in 2003, where he was involved in a small startup company. Growing further in his career, as a team leader and manager Eduard started to promote agile & lean practices in different companies, from growing startups tomid-sized companies and big corporations with offices on multiple continents. Eduard was lucky to have an opportunity to experience Agile adoption process in one of the largest independent software providers.

Currently he works as a senior director of software engineering at CAtechnologies. Eduard is also a co-founder of Czech agile community Agile Association – AgilniAsociace.cz. The Association organizes regular open-café sessions, workshops, conferences and other events with a maingoal to share the agile experience across companies and company cultures.

Twitter: @ekunce LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardkunce email: eduard.kunce@gmail.com

Marc Lainez

I'm a young Agile developer that discovered the Agile world 3 years ago. Since then, I've tried to get involved as much as possible in my local community. Either through organizing drinkups or by going touniversities to teach and evangelize Agile through a non-profit organism devoted to bring Agile in schools for free. As a developer, I'm trying to beas active as possible and gather as much experience as possible in motivated Agile teams.

I also work from time to time as technical coach to introduce lost souls to good development practices, TDD, informative workspaces and continuous integration.

Husband, musician, recent blogger and Agile enthusiast, I love to share my passions with others.

Diana Larsen

Diana Larsen partners with clients in the software industry to create, guide, and fortify resilient workplaces and improve project performance. In addition to consulting with and coaching leaders and teams on adopting Agile work systems, she draws on 20+ years of working with technical professionals to lead team, project, and whole system processes for collaborative thinking and planning.

Diana co-authored Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Project toward Success and Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. She serves on the board of directors of the Agile Alliance and is an associate of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute.

Andreas Larsson

I work as a manager at Scania, a Swedish heavy truck manufacturer with a long and successful history of applying Lean values and principles. I serve a group of software developers taking part in the development of service and maintenance software products for trucks, buses and industrial and marine engines.

Yngve Lindsjørn

Yngve Lindsjørn is a researcher at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. He is currently leading a research project on teamwork, with the University, SINTEF and four software companies. The project is partially funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Todd Little

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Faisal Mahmood

Faisal Mahmood is the author of the book Agile Adoption Mistakes You Must Avoid and several articles on Agile and Scrum . Faisal trains, mentors and coaches individuals, teams and organizations during their Agile and Scrum adoption journey.

Faisal is a Certified Professional Scrum Trainer based in London, UK. He providesProfessional Scrum Master Certification, Professional Product Owner Certification and Professional Scrum Developer Certification courses in London and around the world.

Faisal started using Scrum in 2005, while working for F-Secure Corporation. Since 2007, he has been helping various companies in their transition to Scrum and Agile in Finland and the UK including Telefonica O2 UK, British Gas, Elisa and Itella Information.

Olve Maudal

Olve Maudal loves to write code, but is perhaps more interested in how software is developed than what it actually does. Olve works for Cisco Systems Norway developing telepresence systems. Previous experience includes developing systems for finding oil (Schlumberger), and developing systems for electronically moving money (BBS). Olve is an active member of the vibrant geek community in Oslo where he is involved in JavaPils, Cantara, XP Meetup, Oslo C++ Users Group, Lean Meetup and a few other things. You can follow him at http://olvemaudal.wordpress.com and http://twitter.com/olvemaudal

Angel Medinilla

Ángel Medinilla (Córdoba, Spain, 1973) has 15+ years working experience in the ICT market, five of them in AUNA (secondbiggest Telco operator in Spain) as a Project Manager and Systems Engineer; two of them in Iberbanda (WiMax operator) as a Project Manager. He has relevant experience in Research&Development, including several EC funded projects, and advanced Internet services development.

His firsts experiences with Agile started back on 2005, and on 2007 he started his own Agile Consulting firm. Today, Proyectalis is considered the leading Agile consulting, training and coaching company in Spain and oneof the best known in Europe, offering Agile training and implementation services to a wide spectrum of software, telco and internet local and worlwide companies. Customers include Ericsson, Vodafone, Electronic Arts, Infojobs, Zed.Com, Abengoa /Telvent, Alcampo / Auchan, Hotelbeds / Tui Travel…

His contributions to the Agile community include several presentations on Slideshare, two blogs (Spanish / English), the official translation to Spanish of the Agile Manifesto, the translation of Henrik Kniberg’s “Scrum and Xp from the Trenches” and the coordination of the translation of Kniberg and Skarin’s “Kanban vs. Scrum”. He is currently contributing to the second Scrumban book, “Scrumban in Practice”, by Jim Benson and the same “Modus Cooperandi” crew that made the first book by Corey Ladas possible, and will be publishing a a “Springer Brief” book on Agile Management soon.

Karl-Magnus Möller

Karl-Magnus Möller is Technical Specialist at Ericsson, working as Innovation Specialist within Development Unit IP and Broadband.

Karl-Magnus' fifteen years of experience ranges from Software, Hardware, Test and System development for the ICT, automotive and process industries. He has participated in introducing agile ways of working as Software developer as well as team leader.

For the past seven years his main interest has been related to team and change leadership, group dynamics and innovation facilitation.

Ana Moreno

Dr. Ana Moreno is full professor of the Technical University of Madrid. She has a long trajectory on the Software Engineering research and education fields, with more than 20 scientific publications in relevant journalsabout both areas. She has been working on the integration between usability and software engineering from 2001, and has published papers about the issue in journals like IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering or the Journal of Systems and Software.

Henrik Mårtensson

Henrik Mårtensson is a management consultant working with strategy coaching and process improvement. Henrik has written a business strategy book, Tempo! A second book is close to publication. His management video cast series has more than 80,000 viewers. Three of his video casts are used by the New England College of Business and Finance.

Henrik has a soft spot for stories about the wilder side of management and management history. This often shows in his management presentations.

Bent Myllerup

Bent Myllerup is working world wide as an agile coach, mentor, presenter, facilitator and trainer. Being the first Certified Scrum Coach in Europe, in combination with his professional EMCC certification as a Systemic Coach, Bent is highly focused on helping people growing into the full potential of their individual role.

Bent has personal experiences in various contexts: From junior developer to being on the board of directors, working in a range from garage start-ups to internationally well- recognized cooperations. In the major part of his career, his responsibility has been leading and coaching people.

Bent takes agile approaches beyond software and have for a number of years been working with Scrum in an embedded environment of software, firmware, electronics and mechanics. He also holds a Project Management Professional certification from PMI, which enables him to compare and contrast various approaches on leading projects and organizations.

Bent is a member of the agile42 team acting as country manager for Denmark as well as being an executive and team coach. He is affiliated the Agile Coaching Institute where he is involved with leading coaching circles and Coaching Agile Teams classes. Bent’s community involvement include forming and supporting user groups, certification review teams and various improvement initiatives.

Giorgio Natili

He is head of his own company GNStudio, which has been operating in the web development field since 2001. His area of expertise focuses on Flash, Air, Flex, ColdFusion, Flash Media Server, RED5 and their integration, as well as accessibility both in html and Flash.

Since the end of the 2004 his interests have broadened to include developing mobile applications and e-learning tools, for this reason he has worked a lot with Flash Lite and Symbian C++, most recently he is focusing on Android and iOS development using native languages and using phonegap.

Since the beginning of his career he used intensively javascript and for this reason right now is coming back to the origin with HTML5/CSS/JS applications. He follows agile development practices since 2008 and has a lot of experience as technical leader in small / medium size teams. He also works on various education initiatives to spread awareness on accessibility issues, especially to flash developers. He attended as a speaker the Adobe Max, the 360|Flex, the FITC, several Flash Camps all around the world and recently was also a speaker of the Flash and The City in New York.

Thomas Nilsson

Software developer and other roles since 30 years, turned organizational, management and team coach with agile, lean, radical management and other modern thinking as my tools and inspiration. Talks at various conferences including the last few XP:s.

Charlie Poole

Charlie Poole has spent more than 35 years as a software developer, designer, project manager, trainer and coach. After a long career in the government sector, he began working independently in 1996 with clients ranging from Microsoft to government agencies to internet startups.

Charlie's technical background covers a lot of ground. In recent years, he has specialized in C++ and C# development in cross-platform settings. He has worked with the .NET framework since its inception and is one of the authors of the NUnit testing framework for .NET.

For the past ten years, Charlie has worked as an Agile coach and trainer. He is a familiar presence at Agile and Open Source events. In recent years, he has become a big fan of Open Space Technology and frequently serves as an Open Space facilitator. He is one of the founders of the Agile Open Northwest conference.

Ken Power

Ken Power is an internal Agile-Lean Coach/Consultant and co-founder of the Agile Office at Cisco Systems’ Unified Communications Business Unit. He works with global product teams and the organization’s leadership, navigating a path through their agile journey.

He is a speaker at several international conferences including Agile20xx, XP20xx, LSSC2011, and LESS20xx. He won the IEEE Software Best Paper Award at Agile 2011 (for co-authoring “Decision Making in Agile Teams”), and was a finalist for Best Paper awards at Agile 2011 (for “The Agile Office”) and XP 2011 (for “Using Silent Grouping to Size User Stories”).

Ken has wide experience introducing and applying agile development at all levels in organizations, and across a variety of industries and domains. His interests include architecture, agility, lean thinking, patterns, systems thinking, test driven development, and organization design to support productive and effective teams and organizations. He maintains a Blog at http://systemagility.com/blog and is @ken_power on Twitter.

Anushya Prasad

Anushya has 6 years of experience in software delivery as a Business Analyst, Quality Analyst and Team Lead. She has been with Thoughtworks for 3 years, working out of the US and India. Her particular areas of interest are product visioning and evolution, facilitation, and delivery process innovation.

J.B. Rainsberger

J. B. Rainsberger helps people gain more freedom. In particular, he helps programmers advance their design skills, reconnect with their joy of programming, and unleash their inner entrepreneur. He has been a leading member of the Agile software community for over a decade. He has also helped people find financial and emotional freedom since 2006.

Ramya Ravichandar

Ramya Ravichandar is currently leading the Agile Lean at Cisco program at Cisco Systems, Inc. She is focused on organizational transition to Agile, fostering an Agile@Cisco community, and advancing enterprise level initiatives. She has a PhD in Software Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Dave Snowden

Founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.

He holds visiting Chairs at the Universities of Pretoria and Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as a visiting fellowship at the University of Warwick. He is a senior fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore. His paper with Boone on Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007 and also won the Academy of Management aware for the best practitioner paper in the same year. He has previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge managment. He is a editorial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in the field of knowledge management and is an Editor in Chief of E:CO. In 2006 he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence and in 2007 was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research.

He previously worked for IBM where he was a Director of the Institution for Knowledge Management and founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity; during that period he was selected by IBM as one of six “on-demand” thinkers for a world wide advertising campaign. Prior to that he worked in a range of strategic and management roles in the service sector.

Zuzana Sochova

Zuzana Sochova /Czech Republic/ Zuzana started with agile and Scrum back in 2005, where she was involved in implementing the agile methods at large US company operating in the medical area. From that time, she was responsible for implementation of agile and Scrum to teams in the Czech Republic operating in different areas ofIT industry (i.e. air traffic control management systems, extensive healthcare applications, public safety systems and small and extremely fast internet projects).

Currently she works as a consultant and coach for software organizations, support them in tailoring their agile adoption processes to company culture. She founded Czech agile community Agile Association - AgilniAsociace.cz, organizing conferences and events and sharing the agile experience allaround. She is Managing Director of LOTOFIDEA.

Twitter: @zuzuzka LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zuzka http://sochova.cz http://soch.cz/blog

Sally Spinks

Sally Spinks, head of Organisational Design for IDEO London, has always been interested in group behaviours and how they change and shift, particularly in an organisational context. She works with clients to gain insights into the unwritten rules of an organization - how things really work. Then utilising human centred design, will develop a set of propositions to design internal organisational factors that will enable successful implementation of the project.

Alongside working at IDEO, Sally is a practising conceptual artist and applies her creative approach to devising programmes for organisations that help them to become more innovative and sustain their approach.

Sally has a background of over 20 years in industrial relations, leadership development and organisational design, working mainly on large change programmes in creative organisations (Nickelodeon, Paramount, Penguin Books and the BBC) as well as the public sector.

Sally holds a Masters Degree in Management Learning from Lancaster University and a Masters of Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Ola Sundin

Former software developer and project manager gone agile coach, currently working with organizations and teams transitioning to agile and lean product development in Sweden and California. Armed with my personal motto 'It's all about people' and a firm belief in Jerry Weinbergs idea that leadership is the process to create an environment where people become empowered I try to create a better working environment for developers and managers.

Portia Tung

Portia specialises in Agile adoption and organisational change as a Consultant-Coach. She's passionate about realising and increasing human potential through Systems Thinking, Real Options and team collaboration. She strives to build effective and meaningful teams by pragmatically applying Lean and Agile Values, Principles and Practices. She's had a number of roles over the years, ranging from Java developer, to development manager, consultant-coach and faciliator. Portia's the creator of Agile Fairytales (www.agilefairytales.org), a series of learning games that help adults rediscover the lessons we learned as children but have since forgotten. She's passionate about inventing and playing games because she believes we can all improve continuously through play to achieve our dreams.

Imir Useini

Imir Useini is a software consultant working at Softhouse. Starting of as a software developer, coding in languages such as PHP and C++, he has during the last few years focused on building teams and helping organizations to improve their software development processes. Imir`s current assignment is at Schneider Electric Buildings in the role as Scrum Master.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert is an Agile Enterprise coach and founder of Lean-Agile Partners, Inc. She was among the first to apply Agile methods to embedded systems development, as an engineer, manager, and consultant. She has led Agile change initiatives beyond software development in safety-critical, highly regulated industries, and coached clients in the art of Agile technical and management leadership. Nancy's experience spans embedded software and hardware development for applications in aerospace, factory automation, medical devices, defense systems, and financial services.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and is a contributor of articles and advisories for the Cutter IT Journal. Nancy has edited a column for the Agile Times, and served on the IEEE 1648 committee to define a standard for customers of agile teams. She has been a regular presenter at various Agile-related conferences since 2003. Her work in applying Agile methods to embedded systems has been referenced by Jim Shore, James Grenning, and Mary Poppendieck in their books. She speaks at numerous software professional gatherings worldwide, and is currently president of Greater Boston’s premier Agile user group, Agile New England.

Ruud Wijnands

Ruud Wijnands has more than a decade of experience in professional software- and system development of which seven years using agile development practices. He has been introducing XP in Europe’s largest electronics company (Royal Philips Electronics) which is one of the world's major private research organizations with laboratories spread throughout the world. He supported the organization twice in getting to CMM level 2 using agile practices. His main focus has been on software development for highly innovative research projects and large scale systems mainly using programming languages ANSI-C, C++, Java and C#. Ruud has been training and coaching developers in XP for several years now. The last few years he has been helping smallstart-up companies to speed up their development and improve time to market delivery.

Ruud loves Test-Driven Development and refactoring to get to clean code. He has been working a lot with legacy code and knows how to handle and master it. He has been studying and mastering Design Patterns and Pattern Oriented Architectures, since he started his professional software development career. He has applied XP for development of real-time streaming frameworks, digital rights management systems, medical decision support systems, file systems, (cryptographic) algorithms, audio -and video manipulation software, media players, security systems and embedded software development.

Besides XP, Ruud is an experienced certified personal- and team coach and has his own practice. In his role as senior staff member at Philips Research he has been helping the organization with change management towards a more lean way of working for other disciplines, like electronics, assembly and mechatronics. He acts as a coach for team leaders and helps them withtheir communication skills towards their stakeholders and to there team members.

Agustín Yague

Agustín Yague is an Associate Professor at Technical University of Madrid. He is researching on usability and agile and innovation and agile. He is also an active person in the Agile movement in Spain.