Who is your trainer
Michal Vallo, MBA, CSP, founder of Aguarra
Trainer
Scrum and Agile Methodologies, Organization Change and Management Consulting
Bio
Michal is the founder and managing director of Aguarra. As seasoned agile coach and trainer he focuses on organizational development of technology driven companies and exploitation of creative potential of specialized teams in technology based companies of all sizes, including Fortune 500. He has trained or provided consulting to more than 300 people from several countries including Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Sweden. His ultimate drive and goal is to transform and customize techniques of agile methodologies in software development (e.g. SCRUM) and make them suitable and available to management and team members to pursuit efficiency and innovation. He is also the founder of not-for-profit body Agilia, which promotes agile methodologies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and provides the regional platform for meetings of the agile community.
Arne Ahlander, CST
Trainer
Management 3.0
Bio
Arne is a Senior Consultant using Agile and Lean methodologies to improve management and product development for several larger software organizations. Arne has 16 years of experience from the software industry, to a great part in the area of product management where he have held several senior positions. He became one of Sweden’s first Certified Product Owners in November 2006. Arne is based in Lund, Sweden, and an active member of the SW Business Improvement efforts in Scandinavia. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Lund University, Sweden.
Tom Gilb
Trainer
Evolutionary Project Management, Software Metrics
Bio
Tom is the author of nine books and hundreds of papers. His latest book ‘Competitive Engineering’ is a substantial definition of requirements ideas. His ideas on requirements are the acknowledged basis for CMMI level 4 (quantification, as initially developed at IBM from 1980). He wrote „Principles of Software Engineering Management“ (1988, in 2006 in 20th printing), and „Software Inspection“ (1993, about 14th printing). Both titles are really systems engineering books in software disguise. His latest book is ‚Competitive Engineering: A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Management Using Planguage‘, published by Elsevier, Summer 2005. He is recognized as the founder or major driver of several technical disciplines such as ‘software metrics’ and ‘evolutionary project management’, as well as being an innovative pioneer in Inspections, and the inventor of the planning language Planguage. He is directly recognized as the idea source for parts of the Agile and Extreme programming methods (primarily the incremental cycles).
Tomáš Lembacher
Trainer
Agile Test Driven Development
Bio
Tomáš started with programming more than 15 years ago in the C language moving up to C + +, C # and Java, and finally ended with PHP. Tomáš successfully led a team of programmers who gradually adopted techniques such as: proper coding, unit testing, continuous integration techniques and more. And shares his experience and knowledge for Aguarra in Test Driven Development. In is free time he’s passionate about sports and developing software applications.
Kurt Nielsen, CST
Trainer
Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner
Bio
Kurt has had 30+ years career of managing and leading software people, projects and companies, participating in advanced software designs. Since 2005 Kurt has worked intensively with Scrum, Agile and Lean and since 2008 when becoming a Certified Scrum Trainer under the Scrum Alliance, Kurt has spent a lot of his time training over 2500 people as ScrumMasters and Product Owners. Kurt holds a Master in Electronic Engineering and has worked as developer, CTO and CEO. His goal is to "provide honest answers and solutions to honest questions" and is known to be an efficient presenter leaving a personal impact on his students, giving them a solid basis for action in their organizations. Presentation are in Danish (Scandinavian), English or German
Today Kurt divides his time between teaching and coaching Scrum, running a small software business with partners and producing world class loudspeakers for music lovers.
Jaroslav Prochazka
Trainer
LEAN, ITIL, Hyper productive teams
Bio
Jarek is Agile, Lean and ITIL mentor and coach as well as soft skills trainer that is necessary part of management. He is also book author enjoying the life by supporting companies, people and start-ups with finding who they are, what are they good at and how can they deliver real value to the customers. Value thinking (Lean, ITIL) and understanding people and company needs is something what is embedded in me and of course also tightly connected to Agile world. Therefore whiteboard, Business Model Canvas, questions and Kaizen workshop concepts are my daily tools.
Jaroslav has gathered his experience during 14 years in variety of small local IT companies as well as large international corporations in different IT and research roles and positions. His experience is also covered in several books (Stopping the negative spiral: Lean IT in large or Operate IT differently by Grada) and e-books. He also sometimes speak at international IT conferences.
Suzanne Robertson
Trainer
Mastering Requirements Process, Volere technique
Bio
Suzanne is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, a guide for practitioners on finding requirements and writing them so that all stakeholders can understand them. Suzanne works with organizations to apply innovative techniques and fresh thinking in all of their systems development activities. Her work also includes research and consulting on the management, sociological and technological aspects of requirements. The product of her research and experience is Volere, a requirements process, template and techniques for assessing requirements quality, and for specifying requirements. Suzanne is author of many papers on systems engineering. She is a member of IEEE and British Computer Society, and on the board of the British Computer Society’s Requirements Engineering Specialist Group. Suzanne’s other interests include a passion for the opera, cooking, skiing and finding out about curious things.
Janet Gregory
Trainer
Agile Testing, co-author of books and concept of Agile Testing
Bio
An agile testing coach and process consultant with DragonFire Inc., Janet Gregory is the co-author with Lisa Crispin of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009), and More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley 2014). She is also a contributor to 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. Janet specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value in areas beyond critiquing the product; for example, guiding development with business-facing tests. Janet works with teams to transition to agile development, and teaches agile testing courses and tutorials worldwide. She contributes articles to publications such as Better Software, Software Test & Performance Magazine and Agile Journal, and enjoys sharing her experiences at conferences and user group meetings around the world. For more about Janet’s work and her blog, visit www.janetgregory.ca. You can also follow her on twitter @janetgregoryca.
Gáspár Nagy
Trainer
SpecFlow, creator and main contributor of SpecFlow tool
Bio
Gáspár Nagy is the creator and main contributor of SpecFlow, the most widely used ATDD/BDD framework for .NET.
Gáspár is an independent coach, trainer and test automation expert focusing on BDD and SpecFlow. He has more than 10 years of experience in enterprise software development as he worked as an architect and agile developer coach. He is an approved trainer in the Certified Scrum Developer program of Scrum Alliance and Microsoft Certified Professional for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
Scott W. Ambler
Trainer
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), author of framework
Bio
Scott W. Ambler is the Senior Consulting Partner of Scott Ambler + Associates, working with organizations around the world to help them to improve their software processes. He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organizational level. Scott is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. He is the (co-)author of several books, including Disciplined Agile Delivery, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Ed., and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott blogs about DAD at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com. Scott is also a Founding Member of the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the certification body for disciplined agile.
Ben Linders
Trainer
Agile Retrospectives, editor for Agile at InfoQ
Bio
Ben Linders is an Independent Consultant in Agile, Lean, Quality and Continuous Improvement, based in The Netherlands. Author of Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives, Waardevolle Agile Retrospectives & What Drives Quality. As an adviser, coach and trainer he helps organizations by deploying effective software development and management practices. He focuses on continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development, to deliver business value to customers. Ben is an active member of networks on Agile, Lean and Quality, and a frequent speaker and writer. He shares his experience in a bilingual blog (Dutch and English), as an editor for Agile at InfoQ and as an expert on TechTarget.
James Robertson
Trainer
Mastering the Requirements Process
Bio
James Robertson is a consultant, lecturer, author, project leader whose area of concern is the requirements for software, and the contribution that good requirements make to successful projects. James is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process (Addison-Wesley Edition 3, 2012) a guide for practitioners on finding requirements and writing them so that all stakeholders can understand them.
James’ career is broad, both in a geographical sense and the areas and systems that he has worked with. It is fair to say that James has worked on almost every type of commercial IT project. From a start as a programmer in a software development house in Sydney, to consulting in New York and London, he has earned his experience at the sharp end of both project and research work.
Knut Fahlén
Trainer
Beyond Budgeting
Bio
Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and worked in different areas as a Management consultant since the beginning of year 2002. For example Organizational development and change management, Performance management, beyond budgeting principles, public procurement and project management implementing IT systems in large organizations.
Lecture in Finance at EXMI, Stockholm, MBA-program for Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University Scotland
Lecture at Gothenburg Business School and School of Health Science in Borås.
Teaching controllers in analytics, change management, management accounting, management innovation such as Beyond Budgeting
PhD in Logistics and cost management
Valeri Souchkov
Trainer
Creative Problem Solving, Management of Systematic Innovation - TRIZ
Bio
Valeri is internationally acknowledged innovation and TRIZ expert and trainer certified by G. Altshuller (TRIZ founder). Valeri is pioneer promoter of TRIZ and Systematic Innovation in Western Europe, USA, and Asia. Since 1989 he trained more than 5.000 people in TRIZ and Systematic Innovation worldwide and participated on more than 100 innovation projects in various areas. He has trained and facilitated projects in many organizations including Capgemini, DSM, DuPont, LG Electronic, Posco, Philips and Siemens. He has created first open TRIZ course and regularly provides it since 1992. He is author of more than 70 publications on TRIZ, systematic innovation and IT support for innovation and also one of designers of modern TRIZ and techniques of systematic innovation. Valeri is co-founder of Invention Machine Corporation and also founder and board member of European Associaction for TRIZ (www.etria.net). Since 2003 he managers ICT T&C and organizes courses on TRIZ and systematic innovation at University of Twent, Netherlands.
James Archer
Trainer
Mastering the requirements process
Bio
James is a business analyst, consultant, teacher, writer and innovator. James is co-editor and contributing author of Business Analysis and Leadership (Kogan Page, 2014). He identifies the key to great business analysis as an inclusive leadership style, thinking innovatively, working collaboratively, acting strategically and helping people discover their real requirements.
James is one of the founders and organisers of the Business Analysis European Conference now in its seventh year. In 2009 he was awarded Business Analyst of the Year, and he has a Masters with Distinction in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (Minnov) from City University.
James is an associate of the Atlantic Systems Guild and has contributed to the development of and taught the Volere approach to requirements and business analysis for the last 8 years.
Specialising in health and social care, he brings a track record of designing and delivering innovative solutions to complex problems. His key role is to help senior stakeholders understand the wider strategic and business change implications of potential solutions. He also has a rare ability to enable people at all levels of an organisation to work and think together in pursuit of lasting change.
James is a Director of Public World, who are UK partners of Buurtzorg, a not-for-profit organization in the Netherlands that is transforming the way care at home is delivered by nurse-lead self-managed teams. Buurtzorg has grown from a team of 4 nurses in 2007 to over 800 teams of 9,500 nurses with a back office of only 45 staff and has won employer of the year in the Netherlands for 4 out of the last 5 years. James is working with Guys and St Thomas Hospital in London and other NHS organisations to adapt and adopt the Buurtzorg model to the UK context.