ADVISORY BOARD
SCOTT AMBLERis a Practice Leader, Agile Development at IBM. An industry-recognized software process improvement (SPI) expert, he is the practice leader of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. Scott is the (co-) author of several books, including Refactoring Databases (Prentice Hall), Agile Modeling (John Wiley & Sons), Agile Database Techniques (John Wiley & Sons), The Object Primer 3rd Edition (Cambridge University Press), and The Enterprise Unified Process (Prentice Hall). Scott is a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb's Journal.
ELLEN GOTTESDIENER, principal consultant at EBG Consulting, helps software development and business experts to positively and productively define and achieve shared goals. EBG helps people to collaboratively explore requirements, shape their development process and plan their work. Ellen is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and presents seminars on requirements, facilitated workshops, retrospectives and software inspections and peer reviews. Ellen is advisor for the Software Development West and Best Practices Conferences and the Stickyminds.com website. She has authored numerous papers on software requirements, methods and modeling. Ellen is author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002), contributing author to Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases Through the Systems Development Life-Cycle. Her latest book is Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Teams Develop and Manage Requirements (Goal/QPC, 2005). She can be reached at ellen@ebgconsulting.com and www.ebgconsulting.com.
CHRISTIAN GROSS is a consultant with vast experience in the client/server world. He has consulted for Microsoft on DNA solutions, and he has held consulting positions with Daimler Benz, Microsoft, NatWest and other major corporations. Christian is the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress), Ajax Patterns and Best Practices (Apress), Foundations of Object-Oriented Programming Using .NET 2.0 (Apress), How to Code .NET and A Programmer's Introduction to Windows DNA. Gross was a contributor to Professional Active Server Pages, Professional SQL Server 6.5 Administration, Professional NT Internet Information Server Administration, and Programming Microsoft Windows 2000 Unleashed.
DAN SAKS is the president of Saks & Associates, a training and consulting company specializing in C++. He is a contributing editor for Embedded Systems Programming and a member of the advisory board for The C/C++ Users Journal. He has also written columns for The C++ Report, Software Development magazine and the Windows Developer's Journal. Dan is coauthor of C++ Programming Guidelines and codeveloper of Suite++: The Plum Hall Validation Suite for C++. He served for many years as secretary of the ANSI and ISO C++ standards committee, and continues to follow the committees' activities.
JOHN STEVEN is a Technical Director with Cigital and a founding member of the company's Office of the CTO. John is responsible for creating Cigital's methodologies and building its knowledge collateral. His more-than-eight years of experience spans consulting, distributed systems architecture, operating systems, and software quality and security research. John combines experience in Cigital's Software Security, Quality Assurance, and Process Improvement practices to deliver clients innovative solutions. He designed and developed jRapture, a capture/replay tool with profiling support for the Java2 platform, and his work was presented at the 2000 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). John has served on conference panels regarding software security, wireless security, and J2EE system development. He is a published author and a sought-after reviewer of journal and conference submissions and edits IEEE Security & Privacy's "Building Security In" column. John holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University.
REBECCA WIRFS-BROCK, president of Wirfs-Brock Associates, is a world-renowned innovator in practical object analysis and design techniques. She is lead author of the book Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities and Collaborations (Addison-Wesley 2003). She invented the set of development practices known as Responsibility-Driven Design. Most recently, she has focused on ways to effectively communicate design ideas, ways to be a thoughtful agile designer, designing flexible software without over- or under-engineering a solution, and effective ways to consider design alternatives. Among her widely used innovations are use case conversations and object role stereotypes. She's a proponent of practical techniques and effective communication. She specializes in the transfer of object analysis and design expertise through mentoring, consulting and training.
