Mary has been in the information technology industry for 25 years. She has managed solutions for companies in several disciplines, including supply chain management, manufacturing systems, and digital media. As a seasoned leader in both operations and new product development, she provides a business perspective to software development problems.Lean development is just one of Ms. Poppendieck’s areas of expertise. She first encountered the Toyota Production System, which later became known as Lean Production, as Information Systems Manager in a video tape manufacturing plant. She implemented one of the first just-in-time systems in 3M, resulting in dramatic improvements in the plant’s performance. She is the author of

• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
• Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
• Leading Lean Software Development

Jutta is a partner of IT communication, is an independent consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented 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 distribute mission-critical projects. This is also the topic of her already published book ‘Agile Software Development in the Large’ and of the one she’s currently writing on ‘Distributed Agile Software Development’.

Besides engineering software Jutta has been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. Having completed a course of teacher training and led many ‘train the trainer’ programs in industry, she focuses also on techniques which help teach OT and is a main lead in the pedagogical patterns project. She has presented work in her main areas at ACCU (UK), JAOO (Denmark), OOPSLA (USA), SD West, SD Best Practices (both USA), XP (Europe) and Agile (USA).

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