Speakers Jim "Cope" Coplien, Gertrud & Cope Jim ("Cope") Coplien is the father of Organizational Patterns, and one of the founders of the Software Pattern discipline, a pioneer in practical object-oriented design in the early 1990s and is a widely consulted authority, author, and trainer in the areas of software design and organizational improvements. Cope is currently a partner in Gertrud & Cope, Mørdrup, Denmark. His work ranges from programming and performance evaluation, to organizational improvement assessments, organizational development, and process improvement, and to consulting on system architecture. www.gertrudandcope.com-a.googlepages.com Jeff Sutherland, PatientKeeper Inc. Jeff Sutherland is one of the founders of the SCRUM development process which was developed at Easel Corporation in the early 90's. As CTO and/or VP Engineering, he has introduced SCRUM to several companies and has been engaged as a SCRUM expert consultant to many others, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe and Cadence. www.jeffsutherland.com Fran O'Hara, Practice Director, Insight Test Services Fran O'Hara is (co)founder and director of Insight Test Services, providing test consulting, training and managed test services. He specialises in pragmatic approaches to process improvement and associated best practices. Fran is a regular speaker at process improvement and testing conferences. He is an ISEB/ISTQB tutor, a trained SEI CMM lead assessor and TickIT auditor, a fellow of the Irish Computer Society, a TMMi Foundation Director and co-founder of the Irish SIG in Software Testing - SoftTest. www.insight-test.com Thomas Blomseth, BestBrains Thomas Blomseth is Agile and Lean Coach with BestBrains. Coming from a background as a developer and software architect Thomas works with software organizations to create complete, integrated value streams and supporting management systems based on Lean principles and Agile methods. www.bestbrains.dk Gertrud Bjørnvig, Gertrud & Cope Gertrud is an experienced software consultant and trainer who has been in software development since 1984. Today Gertrud focuses on applying use cases in agile development - not as a hand-over specification, but as the most efficient communication tool when testing and usability are important. Scrum is her favorite development framework, and besides being a Certified Scrum Master, she has all the skills that make a great Scrum Master. She facilitates retrospectives, and thinks that organizational patterns are a powerful tool for agile process improvement. Gertrud is one of the founders of Danish Agile User Group, and has been a member of the Program Committees of VikingPLoP (the Nordic Conference of Pattern Language of Programs) 2002, EuroPLoP 2003, and will chair VikingPLoP together with Jim Coplien. www.gertrudandcope.com-a.googlepages.com Tobias Fors, Citerus AB Tobias Fors is one of the owners of the Swedish software development consultancy Citerus. By combining his experiences from working in different roles in software development with a dose of common sense and some tricks of the trade, he helps his clients succeed in software development. www.citerus.se Henrik Kniberg, Crisp AB Henrik Kniberg is an agile coach at Crisp in Stockholm. With a background as CTO of three Swedish IT companies Henrik has experimented with most aspects of agile methods such as Scrum and XP. Henrik is a certified scrum trainer and works together with Jeff Sutherland, the co-founder of Scrum. Henrik's book "Scrum and XP from the Trenches", with over 100,000 readers, is currently one of the most popular books on the topic. www.crisp.se Janne Peltonen, Qvantel Oy Janne Peltonen is a senior consultant serving software development since 1996. Janne is Certified Scrum Master and has a handsome experience in handling distributed Scrum. He has been closely working with offshore teams and can share his experience in overcoming cultural barriers in distributed scrumming. www.qvantel.com Jesper Thaning and Sune Gynthersen, BestBrains Jesper Thaning is a software consultant with BestBrains having many years of test-first experience and working with test and design improvements on various developer teams. He is practicing agile software development on a daily basis, and has given workshops and lectures on selected subjects. Sune Gynthersen is a software consultant with BestBrains. He has several years of experience with agile process- and engineering practices. He is currently helping development teams building software that delivers as much business value as possible, while keeping techical debt at a minimum. www.bestbrains.dk Arne Åhlander, Softhouse Consulting Arne Åhlander has 12 years of experience from the software industry, to a great part in the area of product management where he have held several senior positions. In recent years he has worked as a Senior Consultant at Softhouse, where he is using Agile and Lean methodologies to improve product development and management for several larger software organizations. Arne is both a Certified Scrum Master and was one of Sweden's first Certified Product Owners. www.softhouse.se