Andrew Hunt, Pragmatic Programmers

Andy Hunt

Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He authored the best-selling book “The Pragmatic Programmer” and six others, was one of the 17 founders of the Agile Alliance, and co-founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.

In his new book “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning“, he teaches us how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain’s architecture. At Andy’s workshop at Øresund Agile 2009 the participants will learn new tricks and tips to learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn.

Rachel Davies, Agile Experience

Rachel Davies

Rachel Davies is a well-known presenter at and organizer of industry conferences and a long serving director of Agile Alliance. She has been applying agile approaches since 2000 and has experience of a range of methods including XP, SCRUM, Lean and DSDM. She has also written a book on Agile Coaching which is to be published this summer.
Rachel Davies runs an agile consulting business in UK providing expert coaching to teams applying agile software development techniques. In the last year, she has worked with agile teams at BBC, Nokia, Lloyds TSB, and CODA.

Mary Poppendieck

Mary Poppendieck

Mary Poppendieck has thirty years of experience from the IT industry. Based on her experiences from Product Development as well as leading larger govermental Software Projects, she wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development.

Over the past six years, Mary has been lecturing and teaching classes with her husband Tom all over the world.  Based on their on-going learning, they wrote a second book, Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash in 2006.  A popular writer and speaker, Mary continues to bring fresh perspectives to the world of software development.

Tom Poppendieck

Tom Poppendieck

Tom Poppendieck is an enterprise analyst and architect, and an agile process mentor.  He focuses on identifying real business value and enabling product teams to realize that value.

Tom specializes in understanding customer processes and in effective collaboration of customer, development and support specialists to maximize development efficiency, system flexibility, and business value.

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Jim Coplien, Gertrud&Cope

Jim Coplien

Jim Coplien is a well-known industry speaker and author of several books in Agile Development and OO programming, including the very popular titles “Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development” and “Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms”.  He is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at University of Manchester Institute of Scence and Technology, and was the 2003-2004 Vloeberg Professor of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit
Brussels.

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Gertrud Bjørnvig, Gertrud&Cope

Gertrud Bjørnvig

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 has chaired VikingPLoP together with her companion Jim Coplien.

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Ole Jepsen, GoAgile

Ole Jepsen

Ole Jepsen is renowned in Europe as a highly esteemed collaborative facilitator and mentor. Ole is the founder and leader of the Danish Agile User Group – and he is active in the international agile community, he writes articles and speaks around the world on how companies can use agile methodologies to increase business value.
Ole is a founder and board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network, where started the “Learning and Recognition” Committee – working on defining and implementing an 3-level certification program for great Agile Project Leaders.

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Henrik Kniberg, Crisp AB

Henrik Kniberg

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.

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Tobias Fors, Citerus

Tobias Fors

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.

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Bent Jensen, BestBrains

Bernt Jensen

Bent is Director and Consultant at the Danish Agile Consulting firm BestBrains. BestBrains is primarily helping software companies implement faster and more effective ways to do software development, with a lean and agile approach. Having more than 20 years of experience in the Software industry, Bent has been developing products for SAS Institute Inc. as a Senior Software Manager, and was one of the first in Denmark to implement Agile and Lean Development late in the last century.

Mads Troels Hansen, BestBrains

Mads Troels Hansen

Mads is Agile and Lean Coach and Management Consultant at BestBrains. Mads has more than 15 years of experience with enterprise software development, starting as a developer and then moving into project/product management and leadership. He has been Head of Development in companies like Omada, SoftwarePeople and NetPeople, where he successfully implemented different agile and lean techniques to scale and improve the software development. He has also many years of experience working with Product Management with both local and distributed teams. Mads has worked with Scrum processes for a number of years and is also CSM, CSPO and CSP.

Thomas Blomseth, BestBrains

Thomas Blomseth

Thomas Blomseth is Agile and Lean Coach with BestBrains. Coming from a background as a software developer Thomas works with software organizations to create complete, integrated value streams and supporting management systems based on Lean principles and Agile methods.

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Anders Sixtensson, Softhouse

Anders Sixtensson

Anders has over 20 years of experience of working with different aspects of software development, including everything from leadership to how individual team members work. A recurring theme has been to create flow and using simple solutions from the world of logistics to increase the delivery of customer value with shorter lead times than before. Anders works with leadership and education at Softhouse as well as client projects. In client projects he utilise his systems thinking and “big-picture” perspective to guide software development in large scale organisations.
 

People&Leadership, Softhouse

People&Leadership is a part of the Softhouse Software Business Improvement team. We believe that the difference between good and great performing organisations lies in the collaboration and interaction between people rather than the adherence to formal processes and use of complex tools. The group has a strong focus on team building and team leadership, working with models such as The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Goal Set Motivation.