SCOTT AMBLER is a Practice Leader for Agile Development at IBM. An industry-recognized
software process improvement (SPI) expert, he's also a thought leader in the
Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP) and Enterprise
Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. Scott is the author and coauthor 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.
Michèle Leroux Bustamante is principal software architect of
IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, Microsoft MVP for XML
Web Services and BEA Technical Director. She has more than a decade of development
experience, developing applications with VB, C++, Java, C# and VB.NET, and has
worked with related technologies such as ATL, MFC and COM. At IDesign, Michele
provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services,
focusing on Web services, scalable and secure architecture design for .NET and
interoperability. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association
(INE -TA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair of SD’s Web
Services/SOA track and is frequently published in major technology journals.
Michele is also Web Services Program Advisor to UCSD Extension, and is the .NET
Expert for SearchWebServices.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net,
or visit www.idesign.net and www.dotnetdashboard.net.
ELLEN GOTTESDIENER, principal of EBG Consulting Inc., is a consultant, facilitator and trainer helping project teams explore requirements, shape their development processes and collaboratively plan and improve their work. Ellen has extensive experience as a professional workshop facilitator with particular focus on positively and productively engaging software development and business experts in defining and achieving shared goals through chartering, requirements and retrospective workshops. She has presented at many industry conferences and authored numerous papers on software development requirements, workshops, methods and modeling. She provides practical, experience-based seminars to clients in a wide variety of industries. Ellen’s experiences as an agile requirements facilitator are articulated in her book Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002).
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.
ELLIOTTE RUSTY HAROLD is an internationally respected writer, programmer,
and educator. He lectures about Java and object-oriented programming at Polytechnic
University in Brooklyn. His Cafe au Lait website has become one of the most
popular independent Java sites on the Internet, and his spin-off site Cafe con
Leche has become one of the most popular XML sites. He is the author of numerous
books, most recently: Processing XML with Java from Addison-Wesley
and XML in a Nutshell from O'Reilly.
ALLEN HOLUB has worked in the computer industry since 1979. He now works
as a consultant, helping companies not squander money on software. He provides
training in OO design and Java and provides design-process mentoring and design-review
services, technical due-diligence, and even writes programs on occasion. He
served as a CTO at NetReliance Inc. and sits on the board of advisors for Ascenium
Corp. and Ontometrics. He is the Security Track co-chair and has authored nine
books (including Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking
at Code, Taming Java Threads and Compiler Design in C) and 100+
magazine articles. Allen wrote for JavaWorld from 1998 to 2004, and
is now a contributing editor for SD Times. He wrote the popular "OO
Design Process" column for the IBM developerWorks Component Zone, was the
technical editor of CMP Media's Java Solutions. Allen teaches regularly
for the University of California (Berkeley) Extension. Contact Allen at www.holub.com/allen.html.
JUVAL
LOWY is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, specializing in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.0. His latest book is Programming WCF Services (O'Reilly 2007). Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world's top .NET experts and industry leaders.
GARY
McGRAW, Cigital Inc.'s CTO, researches software security and sets technical
vision in the area of software quality management. Dr. McGraw is co-author of
five best-selling books: Exploiting Software (Addison-Wesley, 2004),
Building Secure Software (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Software Fault
Injection (Wiley 1998), Securing Java (Wiley, 1999) and Java
Security (Wiley, 1996). A noted authority on software and application security,
Dr. McGraw consults with major software producers and consumers. He serves on
Advisory Boards of Authentica, Counterpane, Fortify Software and Indigo Security,
as well as advising the CS Department at UC Davis. Dr. McGraw holds a dual Ph.D.
in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University and a BA in
Philosophy from UVA. He writes a monthly security column for Network Magazine,
is the editor of Building Security In for IEEE Security & Privacy
magazine, and is often quoted in national press articles.
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 (US) and a former member of the advisory board for C/C++
Users Journal. He has also written columns for the C++ Report, Software
Development magazine and Windows Developer's Journal. Dan is co-author
of C++ Programming Guidelines and co-developer 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.
DAVE THOMAS is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software-accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best-selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Addison-Wesley) and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
JOSH
TRUPIN, Executive Editor for MSDN Magazine, has written numerous
technical articles for MSJ, Microsoft Internet Developer, MSDN magazine,
TechNet Magazine and MSDN News, as well as appearing in interviews for
MSDN TV, CodeProject.com and the SQL Server 10th Anniversary site. His long
out-of-print book on the NBA, HoopStats: The Basketball Abstract, has
been featured in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
He lives on Long Island with his wife Laura, children Julian and Cordelia, two
beagles, and a basement full of CHUDs.
PAUL
TYMA is a software engineer at Google, Inc. in Silicon Valley. Previously,
he was Chief Scientist of Preemptive Solutions Inc., a Java and .NET code security
company. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University
with a research focus in dynamic language performance. Paul is a frequent industry
writer, including lead author of the book Java Primer Plus, the "VM
Roadtest Java VM" column in Java Pro magazine, various articles
in Dr. Dobb's Journal and Communications of the ACM. He has
spoken at JavaOne, Java Business Expo, Software Test & Performance and is
a ten-year Software Development conference veteran.
ROSS
WHEELER is serial entrepreneur having been involved in technology startups
since 1985. He is currently Founder/CEO of Paravirtual, a leader in Embedded
Supersystem Virtualization. He previously founded and led RouterWare, the leading
network protocol supplier with over 300 networking infrastructure customers,
until its acquisition by Wind River Systems, Inc. in 1999. Following the acquisition,
he continued as CTO with the Networking Business unit. His prior experience
includes positions in software engineering with Fibermux, NewGen Systems, Gateway
Communications, and Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Mr. Wheeler holds a BSCS
and BS Computer Engineering from Trinity 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 Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities and Collaborations (Addison-Wesley 2003), and 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.
