J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger helps software organizations better satisfy their customers and the businesses they support. Expert at delivering successful software, he writes, teaches and speaks about why delivering better software is important, but not enough. He helps clients improve their bottom line by coaching teams as well as leading change programs. Read more >>>

Elisabeth Hendrickson is the founder and president of Quality Tree Software, Inc., a consulting and training company dedicated to helping software teams deliver working solutions consistently and sustainably. She also founded Agilistry Studio, a practice space for Agile software development in Pleasanton, CA. A software professional for over 20 years, Elisabeth has been a member of the Agile community since 2003. Read more >>>

Gojko Adzic is a consultant based in the UK who helps ambitious teams worldwide implement specification by example and agile testing practices.

He is the author of the books: Specification by Example, Bridging the Communication Gap and Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse

Danko has been practicing SCRUM couple of years ago and on January 2006 he was certified as a SCRUM Master. On 2007 he received his Practitioner certification (CSP) thus becoming the first CSP in Israel. On August 2008 his request to be a certified Scrum Trainer was approved thus he became the first and only certified Scrum Trainer (CST) in Israel. In parallel, Danko initiated the Israeli Scrum User group. Read more >>>

Francois Bachmann is a Lean & Agile Trainer and Coach with more than 19 years of experience in software development, both in traditional and agile contexts.

Training and coaching teams from various business domains (industry, academic, bank, insurance, telecom, software shops) since 2003, he has been helping companies in Switzerland and Europe improve their efficiency by transitioning to Agile Project Management. Read more >>>

I work for anixe. I am the founder and CEO/CTO . We are located in Wroclaw, Poland, the city of innovation, also called the Polish Sillicon Valley, as many software companies have their headquarters here.

After years of waterfailings I discovered agile and this is what I truly believe can work.I am a product owner, scrum master and coach for different teams and rarely work more than 8h a day, though I spend another 4h on learning more on how to get better and help others. Read more >>>

Andrea Provaglio is an independent professional with almost twenty years of experience in the field of Information Technology. He assists clients from many different domains, which can range from large organizations such as the European Commission in Brussels, or large multinational banks, to small and dynamic IT companies. Read more >>>

Barry started out as a developer and has been working with Agile methodologies since 2001. Overtime his interest have led him towards project delivery using agile and lean practices and principles. He has worked for numerous companies in the US, UK, Australia and Ireland and is now based in London with ThoughtWorks.

Solid experience in web-development, web-hosting industry, e-commerce, project and product management, team leading.

I’ve started development (offshoring) office of international company Golden Planet in Kiev, leading it now. Adopting and bringing Agile processes and values.PMP, CSM, CSP.

Agile-coach and Scrum-trainer, CxO of SCRUMguides coaching and training company operating in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

Alexey is a founder of AgileUkraine community. He is also a founder and frontman of AgileEasternEurope and AgileBaseCamp conferences. Since 2008 he has been working co-training a majority of the Certified ScrumMaster classes in Ukraine. In 2009 has invented one of the earliest Scrum Lego simulations.

Talking about hobbies, Alexey is a bass player and a ski freerider.

During his 15 years of experience in project management, Sven walked the traditional way of doing projects until he became infected with agile methodologies. Having gathered experience as Scrum Master for some time he started training and coaching people, teams and organizations to show them show to “be” agile instead of “doing”agile. From his experience the best way to convince people is not just talking about agile but making people see it, feel it, do it.

Christophe Debou is process director and Central and Eastern European market manager at KUGLER MAAG CIE. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT and software quality management /Process Improvement world in different industry domains (Automotive, Telecommunication, Finance …).

Tomasz is an independent Agile trainer, coach and consultant at ProCognita. He has technical background with experience of working in software projects as developer, configuration manager, quality engineer and project manager. In his projects Tomasz has successfully implemented Agile culture, utilizing best practices of Scrum, Extreme Programming and Kanban. Read more >>>

Henrik has 18+ years of professional experience developing software. He has been working as a developer, technical lead, architect, trainer and coach. From one client, where he helped introduce Scrum and XP, he has over ten years of experience of how using Scrum and XP affects development speed, quality, flexibility, maintainability and life time ROI for software products. Read more >>>

Nathaniel Cadwell leads software development teams at Axiaware, where he helps clients from product envisioning to delivery.  His experience includes both technical and management roles on projects for clients in sectors as diverse as financial services and the government.  As a proponent of Agile project management, he regularly introduces innovations to the Axiaware toolbox.  Nathaniel holds a Bachelor’s degree from George Washington University, and he is an avid marathon runner and photographer.

Having 7+ years background in software development (ranging from tester to scrum master and agile project manager), Nadia has developed a great passion for Agile approach. She’s a Certified Scrum Master and is practicing Scrum since 2007.  Currently Nadia is the leader of offshore development team of Danish customer in Ukraine. She has recently participated as a speaker in conferences Agile Base Camp (Kiev, Kharkov) and IT Jam.

Antonio Terreno has joined Forward in 2010 as a senior developer after being a consultant for almost 10 years. He did previously work for ThoughtWorks as a senior consultant embracing and coaching the full Agile/XP stack. He holds a bachelors degree from Turin University in Computer Science.

Damon Poole is Founder and CTO of AccuRev, a leading provider of Process Agnostic Software Development tools. Damon is a methodology and process improvement expert specializing in helping companies discover and implement their ideal process. His twenty years of experience spans the gamut from small collocated teams all the way up to 10,000-person shops doing global development. Read more >>>

Max is an Agile Coach and Product Owner. He graduated a S.W.A.T. academy of web-development working at Afisha.ru, Microsoft Russia, Auto.ru and several start-ups, starting as a front-end developer and passing through a CIO. Currently works at Banki.ru.

Max is working hard with Visual Management, UX and Cognitive Psychology fields trying to bring them all to Agile World. Asked “What all that stuff is used for?” he usually answers – “I’m just trying to help people make better products”.  Read more >>>

Petra has been using Agile methods continuously for a decade now. She was taught Scrum by Ken Schwaber in 2002 and has been a team member as a developer, Scrum Master, Iteration Manager and Agile Project Manager.

She has been an Agile coach and consultant for the last 8 years with leading Agile consultancies and now as her own company. She is a Certified Scrum Trainer. Read more >>>

Timofey Yevgrashyn is Agile Coach with more than 13 years in software development and for ten years are creating and managing productive teams. During last four years Timofey has been teaching and implementing Agile approaches in different teams, consulting on Agile-development and optimizing projects. He is a Certified ScrumMaster and Scrum expert.  Read more >>>

After her Study of Tourism Management and Business Administration in Germany and England, Melanie Konig was working as an intern at a International Research Company in Hamburg. After several months she switched 2008 to XING (www.xing.com) Germanys biggest online Business Networking Platform. There she was working as the Assistant of the technical board of managment. In 2010 she changed the direction and switched to the Project Management Team. Read more >>>

After his study of Business Administration Robert Wiechmann started working as a Marketing Assistant in several Internet agencies , located in Hamburg.

After 2 years he switched to the Project Management area. He worked as a consultant and Project Manager in a multimedia agency in Hamburg. After that, he changed to XING, Germans biggest online Business Networking Platform (www.xing.com). Starting  in July 2008 as Project Manager, he was mostly working in the Scrum Master role. Read more >>>

Askhat Urazbaev made a typical career from junior developer to project manager. Later on, in Luxoft, Askhat as a process architect was engaged in adopting “heavyweight” methodologies in different departments of the company. Happily, thanks to one of the customers, Askhat get some knowledge of Agile. The new way of development looked very effective. Askhat has participated in several Agile project. Read more >>>