Meet our keynote speakers:
- Jutta Eckstein
- Robin Dymond
- David Hussman
- Jürgen De Smet
- Mary Poppendieck (cancelled)
Jutta Eckstein
Germany, Independent
Jutta 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 distributed 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).
Robin is a proven leader and innovator in training for Scrum, Agile, and Lean methods. He regularly achieves 100% increase in productivity of teams he trains and supports. These results are achieved by a deep understanding of Lean and Agile principles, team dynamics, and many Agile change experiences. Dymond developed Scrum, Lean, and Agile training for teams and trained hundreds of “new to Scrum” team members. At Agile 2008 Dymond co-presented an innovative new class for Scrum Product Owners that lead many to re-think their role and how business value is achieved.A frequent speaker and organizer in the Agile community, Dymond co-organized and facilitated both the APLN National Leadership summit and the Agile Executive Consortium in 2007. He is a co-founder and board member of APLN Richmond, organizing Agile events. Dymond was assistant producer of Learning and Education stage at Agile 2008. This year Robin is a producer of the main stage at Agile 2009.
Dymond was a key member of a team that led the largest enterprise adoption of Scrum in financial services to date. This lean/agile initiative resulted in a time-to-market reduction of over 40% and process execution time savings of 70%. He worked as trainer and mentor to teams, coaches, and management for over 20 teams.
In 2002 2003 He lead the first large enterprise application development that used Agile and Microsoft .NET in Canada. Since then Dymond implemented Agile in service of multi-national retail companies, startups, and Fortune 500 clients.
David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agility as a delivery tool. His work includes helping companies of all sizes all over the world. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to invent, evolve and plan the delivery of all types of products and projects. David also spends a great deal of time helping leaders at all levels find ways to pragmatically use agility as another way to grow and innovate their business.
Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.
Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world. He has continuously publishes and has contributed to several books and many publications. He has helped create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.
For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.com
Jürgen De Smet
Belgium, @Innovel
I am working within Healthcare IT for over 13 years, starting out as a service engineer (installations, upgrades, bug fixing & integration development) which is one of the better ways to customer driven development. From there on we went to software engineer, team lead, group lead to production manager, isn’t this typical waterfall?
Anyway, back to the agile world … there we take up the role as Product Owner for 3 scrum teams as well as fulfilling the role of Scrum Coach within a 4 headed scrum coaching or rather scrum help desk team. As I see things I have been working Agile since … always but only started to tune it to a real proven implementation (Scrum) since beginning 2007. During this process we are trying to lower the typical waterfall pyramids in the organization as well as educate people outside the R&D organization like sales for example, a tough but rewarding quest.
Even though I was not intending to follow a certification course I did it anyway for the reasons that it was extended with a cooking event and it was given by Jeff Sutherland. I probably learned more during the cooking event than the course itself, especially from Jeff since he has a lot of experience within the Healthcare domain.
Visit Jurgen’s agilefun.com
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