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Agile Eastern Europe – agileee HOME [/] ABOUT ALL ABOUT Demographics Organizers Testimonials PROGRAM 2009: Schedule 2009: Speakers VENUE VENUE & HOTEL Archive 2013 Program Speakers Archive 2012 Program Speakers Archive 2011 Program Speakers Archive 2010 Program Speakers Demographics Speakers 2009 Meet our speakers: Mikalai Alimenkou – Ukraine, @ZoralLabs Jurgen Appelo – The Netherlands, @ISM eCompany Dimitri Baeli – France, @eXo Platform Bartosz Bańkowski – Poland, @SabreHoldings Andrey Bibichev – Russia Alexandru Bolboacă – Romania, @AgileWorks Jürgen De Smet - Belgium, @Innovel Maria Diaconu – Romania, @AgileWorks Vasco Duarte - Finland, Nokia Robin Dymond - USA, @Innovel Jutta Eckstein - Germany, Independent Nikita Filippov – Russia, @ScrumTrek Szczepan Faber - Poland, @Sabre Holdings Boris Gloger – Germany, @borisgloger Janet Gregory – Canada, @DragonFire Inc. Mads Troels Hansen – Denmark, @BestBrains ApS Yves Hanoulle – Belgium, @PairCoaching.net David Hussman - USA, @DevJam Pawel Kazienko - Poland, @Testberries Alek Kozlov - Estonia, @scrum.ee Alexander Lesnevsky – Russia Paweł Lipiński - Poland, @Pragmatists Uladzimir Liashkevich - Belarus, @Intetics Artem Marchenko – Finland, Nokia Denis Petelin - Belarus Mary Poppendieck cancelled – USA, @Poppendieck LLC Zuzana Sochova – Czech Republic, @CertiCon Xavier Quesada Allue - Belgium & Argentina, @Agilar J.B. Rainsberger – Canada, independent Suren Samarchyan – Russia Artem Serdyuk – Ukraine, @ISM Ukraine Askhat Urazbaev - Russia, @ScrumTrek Stanislav Vasilyev – Estonia, @Aqris Software Tomasz Wykowski - Poland, @Sabre Holdings Timofey Yevgrashyn – Ukraine, @TIM Andriy Yevtushenk o – Poland, @GG Network Jutta Eckstein Germany, Independent Jutta a partner of IT communication, is an independent consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. She has helped many teams and organizations all over the world to make the transition to an agile approach. She has a unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects.This is also the topic of her already published book ‘ Agile Software Development in the Large ’ and of the one she’s currently writing on ‘Distributed Agile Software Development’. Besides engineering software Jutta has been designing and teaching OT courses in industry. Having completed a course of teacher training and led many ‘train the trainer’ programs in industry, she focuses also on techniques which help teach OT and is a main lead in the pedagogical patterns project. She has presented work in her main areas at ACCU (UK), JAOO (Denmark), OOPSLA (USA), SD West, SD Best Practices (both USA), XP (Europe) and Agile (USA). See the speaker’s сonference session Robin Dymond USA, @Innovel Robin is a proven leader and innovator in training for Scrum, Agile, and Lean methods. He regularly achieves 100% increase in productivity of teams he trains and supports. These results are achieved by a deep understanding of Lean and Agile principles, team dynamics, and many Agile change experiences. Dymond developed Scrum, Lean, and Agile training for teams and trained hundreds of “new to Scrum” team members. At Agile 2008 Dymond co-presented an innovative new class for Scrum Product Owners that lead many to re-think their role and how business value is achieved.A frequent speaker and organizer in the Agile community, Dymond co-organized and facilitated both the APLN National Leadership summit and the Agile Executive Consortium in 2007. He is a co-founder and board member of APLN Richmond, organizing Agile events. Dymond was assistant producer of Learning and Education stage at Agile 2008 . This year Robin is a producer of the main stage at Agile 2009 . Dymond was a key member of a team that led the largest enterprise adoption of Scrum in financial services to date. This lean/agile initiative resulted in a time-to-market reduction of over 40% and process execution time savings of 70%. He worked as trainer and mentor to teams, coaches, and management for over 20 teams. In 2002 2003 He lead the first large enterprise application development that used Agile and Microsoft .NET in Canada. Since then Dymond implemented Agile in service of multi-national retail companies, startups, and Fortune 500 clients. See the speaker’s сonference session David Hussman USA, @DevJam David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agility as a delivery tool. His work includes helping companies of all sizes all over the world. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to invent, evolve and plan the delivery of all types of products and projects. David also spends a great deal of time helping leaders at all levels find ways to pragmatically use agility as another way to grow and innovate their business. Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam, a company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles. Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world. He has continuously publishes and has contributed to several books and many publications. He has helped create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University. For more information, check out the DevJam . See the speaker’s сonference session Maria Diaconu Maria is an Agile and CMMI Practitioner. After more than 10 years as software developer, technical lead and manager she is trying to improve software methods of work by studying various topics, like brain’s hardwiring and limitations. She is working on increasing Agile awareness in Romania and she is the founder of Romanian Agile/Scrum community ( www.agileworks.ro ). Maria is working as software consultant, methodologies trainer and coach, guiding people and teams to achieve high quality software and increase their productivity. She is also the owner of Mosaic Works, a company offering advisory and training services in software development area. See the speaker’s сonference session Alexandru Bolboacă Alexandru worked in software development since 2000, in more than five countries and for customers in more industries including energy, printing, financial and banking. He is now a Software Development Consultant and Trainer, helping customers develop high quality software. One of the main projects he’s involved in is an innovative eHealth project. He also works in partnership with Mosaic Works on various projects related to improving the quality of the software developed in Romania. He studied in the recent years the influence of human factor in software development and continues to work to find ways to improve the software quality. See the speaker’s сonference session Jürgen De Smet I am working within Healthcare IT for over 13 years, starting out as a service engineer (installations, upgrades, bug fixing & integration development) which is one of the better ways to customer driven development. From there on we went to software engineer, team lead, group lead to production manager, isn’t this typical waterfall? Anyway, back to the agile world … there we take up the role as Product Owner for 3 scrum teams as well as fulfilling the role of Scrum Coach within a 4 headed scrum coaching or rather scrum help desk team. As I see things I have been working Agile since … always but only started to tune it to a real proven implementation (Scrum) since beginning 2007. During this process we are trying to lower the typical waterfall pyramids in the organization as well as educate people outside the R&D organization like sales for example, a tough but rewarding quest. Even though I was not intending to follow a certification course I did it anyway for the reasons that it was extended with a cooking event and it was given by Jeff Sutherland. I probably learned more during the cooking event than the course itself, especially from Jeff since he has a lot of experience within the Healthcare domain. Visit Jurgen’s agilefun.com See the speaker’s сonference session Artem Marchenko Finland, @Nokia Currently a Product Manager in Nokia Artem Marchenko has over a decade of software development under the belt. Artem was working for a number of Ukrainian and Finnish companies, experienced various methodologies, processes and leadership styles. He got acquainted with Agile in 2005, liked the ideas and immediately started applying them in his projects within Nokia. Artem’s main interests are Scrum in general and the ways of establishing productive communication between the customer and development sides in particular. Artem pursues both practice and theory. He was a practicing Scrum Master, now as a Product Manager he is playing a Product Owner role for a vastly distributed team. He is doing his PhD studies on Agile Project Management and consults and coaches various organizations on the topics of effective software development. Artem also maintains and regularly writes to the AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com See the speaker’s сonference session Vasco Duarte Finland, @Nokia Currently an Agile Coach in Nokia, Vasco Duarte is an experienced product and project manager, having worked in the software industry since 1997. Vasco has also been an Agile practicioner since 2004, he is one of the leaders and a catalyst in the adoption of Agile methods and an Agile culture at Nokia and previously at F-Secure. Vasco’s contributions to the improvement of the software development profession can be read in his blog: http://softwaredevelopmenttoday.blogspot.com . See the speaker’s сonference session Jurgen Appelo The Netherlands, @ISM eCompany Jurgen Appelo is Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany, recently rated as the #1 fastest growing technology company in The Netherlands. He leads a horde of 50 software developers, development managers, project managers, consultants, quality assurance managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally. Jurgen is primarily interested in software engineering, quality improvement and complexity theory, from a manager’s perspective. He is trying to write a book about this, and he keeps track of it on his blog ( www.noop.nl ). He has already published a number of papers and articles in several magazines, like Dr. Dobb’s, Software Quality Professional, Methods & Tools, The Software Practitioner, StickyMinds, Software Development Network, Computable and Automatisering Gids. However, sometimes he puts it all aside to do some intensive programming himself, or to spend some time on his ever-growing collection of science fiction and fantasy literature. Jurgen lives in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) — and sometimes in Brussels (Belgium) — with his partner Raoul. He has two kids, and an imaginary hamster called George. See the speaker’s сonference session Zuzana Sochova Czech Republic, @CertiCon I am experienced in leading projects for European/American customers, designing efficient and innovative processes. Master degree at Czech Technical University, Computer Science, studying MBA at Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Prague. See the speaker’s сonference session Yves Hanoulle Belgium, @PairCoaching.net Yves Hanoulle started working in IT in 1994. He started as software support which he sees as the best way to customer driven programming. After a few years working as a programmer, he started to follow a 1 year course on leading groups. IT is more then anything else working with people. A skills that can never be learned enough. That is also the reason why one of two books Yves reads every month, has nothing to do with IT, but with personal skills. Yves worked 5 years as Microsoft Certified trainer. Yves is a Certified Core Coach by McCarthy Technologies. Yves spends 20% of his revenu on training and books. He started a 4 year gestalt training to optimize his coaching skills. Yves works as an agile project coach optimizing teams. Yves started PairCoaching.net because he believes that 2 trainers always outperform 1 trainer, no matter how good they are. Our Leadership workshops show this also works with people that never met each other. See the speaker’s сonference session Pawel Kazienko Poland, @Testberries BIO: (links: http://www.testberries.com ). Pawel Kazienko has been involved in software testing for over 6 years and now owns and runs Testberries – an independent software testing company in Poland. For almost 4 years he has worked for Volvo IT in Sweden where, apart from managing testing on a big scrum project, he has been involved in creating and deploying the test process for scrum projects and the IT test procedure for global Volvo IT. He now spends most of his time advising and helping his clients on quality assurance and testing for their agile and non-agile teams and projects as well as coaching, training and inspiring testers and test teams. He is experienced in both, testing and test management, is a big fan of exploratory testing and likes to fathom the psychological aspects of being a tester. See the speaker’s сonference session Paweł Lipiński Poland, @Pragmatists Paweł ( http://www.pawellipinski.com ) is a software architect and a consultant of enterprise software. Since 1999 he has been working in the design, development, and auditing of projects in a multitude of fields like banking, insurance, telecommunication, and media. He is an agile coach and a strong believer in the value of quality in software. Paweł’s main interest lays in Object-Oriented Development and Design Patterns. In his work he makes use of Domain-Driven Design and employ techniques from agile methods which are of great help for delivering high-quality, maintainable applications. See the speaker’s сonference session Xavier Quesada Allue Belgium & Argentina, @Agilar Xavier is an independent Agile Coach and Project Manager who keeps himself busy learning, developing and implementing Scrum, Lean and XP best practices. He is a CSP, a frequent international conference participant and speaker, and is active in the Agile communities of Belgium , Spain and Argentina . In February 2009 Xavier started the Visual Management Blog to document his experiences with Scrum, Lean and the visual workplace. Xavier is also a founding member of the Agilar non-profit project, an initiative to create a worldwide network of independent consultants. See the speaker’s сonference session Dimitri Baeli France, @eXo Platform Computer Science engineer for 10 years in distinct software editors, passionate about “Development, testing and release Processes”, “Open Source development”, “Software Factories”, “Usability”. I’m CSM since 2006, convinced by Scrum since 2004. Working with agile tools in mind for many years. I’ve presented a session in AgileTour in France about the productivity tools for Java Developers (from TotalCommander to TeamCity, Eclipse + Mylyn, …) and I really interested in Lean Software Development, Kanban, Scrum, Software Factories (Maven, Ant, …), Developers Productivity, Usability (8 years of UI development), … everything that helps a company to build a better software with the help of great coders ! Dimitri’s at eXo is VP Quality, to drive the overall dynamic of eXo Platform to improve its organisation and processes to build a better software. See the speaker’s сonference session Boris Gloger Germany, @borisgloger Boris Gloger was the first European Certified ScrumTrainer. 2004 he started to be an independend Scrum Consultant. After working for several companies in Europe as project manager, team lead and Head of Software Development (EDS, BroadVision, ONE, Web.de), he decided to focus on Scrum only. See the speaker’s сonference session J.B. Rainsberger Canada, independent J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger ( jbrains.ca/ ) helps software organizations better satisfy their customers and the businesses they support. Expert at delivering successful software, he writes, teaches and speaks about why delivering better software is important, but not enough. He helps clients improve their bottom line by coaching teams as well as leading change programs. He helps software organizations off the treadmill of over-commitment and under-delivery, addressing all aspects of software delivery including understanding the business, gelling the team and even writing great code. Learn more about how Joe will inspire your software organization at get.started@jbrains.ca . J.B. is the author of JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing . See the speaker’s сonference session Stanislav Vasilyev Estonia, @Aqris Software When I think about software development I remember the very first course on how the software should be developed. I immediately compare it to the way I was programming for myself. Then I question myself, where did all the fun go? Why this has to be that strict and unnatural? I am really fond of making things simpler and just work. I have worked in several companies that have used different approaches to achieve similar goal – deliver best software product. The most joyful experience I have got is from the organizations and projects that accepted “change” as a motivator for progress instead of constantly fighting it. To my mind Lean software development and Scrum provide possibility to work in more natural way instead of keeping the process alive. And of course not to lose all the fun while creating knowledge. This is something I strongly believe in and try to send that message to my students at the university. I hold Master Degree at Tallinn University of Technology in Computer Science and currently I am a doctorate student at the same place. See the speaker’s сonference session Tomasz Wykowski Poland, @Sabre Holdings Tomasz has technical background, with history of working as developer, configuration manager and quality engineer. Since 2006 he’s been project manager for number of IT development projects. He has experience with both “traditional” and Agile approaches, holding PMP and CSM certificates. This knowledge allows him to select methods and tools that best suit project environment. See the speaker’s сonference session Bartosz Bańkowski Poland, @SabreHoldings Bartosz is founder and leader of Polish Agile User Group, active contributor of open source software (Mockito, Mockito-Python). He has been working in Agile projects since 2005. He provides TDD trainings on major universities in Krakow for Computer Science students (since 2007). See the speaker’s сonference session Szczepan Faber Poland, @Sabre Holdings Szczepan Faber is lead developer of Mockito framework, probably the only mocking framework with ‘nohangover’ certificate. He is an Agile Coach for Sabre Holdings in Krakow/Poland. Previously, he’s been working for ThoughtWorks in London. His blog lives at monkeyisland.pl . See the speaker’s сonference session Mads Troels Hansen Denmark, @BestBrains ApS Agile and Lean Coach at BestBrains, Denmark. Mads has more than 15 years of experience with software development, as developer, project manager, product manager, CIO and CTO. Mads is very experienced in delivering high business value using Scrum, Agile and Lean and has worked with Scrum and effective distributed development for many years. Mads has many years of experience in Product Management with both local and distributed teams. He is also CSM, CSPO and CSP. For more info, visit www.bestbrains.biz or www.twitter.com/madsth . See the speaker’s сonference session Janet Gregory Canada, @DragonFire Inc. Janet Gregory is the co-author, with Lisa Crispin, of Agile Testing: Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). Based in Calgary, Alberta, she specializes in helping teams build quality system, and her greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. Over the past ten years, she has helped to introduce development agile practices into companies as tester or coach, and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Her focus is working with the business users and testers to understand their role in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions. Janet is a frequent speaker at agile and testing software conferences in North America and Europe. She’s a regular contributor to the North American agile testing community. See the speaker’s сonference session Andriy Yevtushenko Poland, @GG Network Andriy Yevtushenko , Certified Scrum Master (2007), used mixed Scrum and XP to rebuild from scratch and deliver the most popular Polish Instant Messanger Nowe Gadu-Gadu. Andriy holds MSc in Computer Science from Warsaw University (2005) and works as a strategic business manager at GG Network SA (former Gadu-Gadu SA) , Warsaw, Poland. On daily basis, uses the agile approach in organisation scaling and development of products to the Polish and foreign markets. See the speaker’s сonference session Alek Kozlov Estonia, @scrum.ee Coach and founder at scrum.ee . See the speaker’s сonference session Russian-speaking speakers and bios. Denis Petelin Belarus Успел попробовать себя во всех ролях софтверных проектов – от разработчика до владельца компании и Заказчика. Поскольку во всех ролях работал успешно, имел востребованный опыт, который передаю другим. Сейчас – веду здоровенный образовательный проект и работаю над разработкой двух софтверных продуктов – системы управления обучением и инструмента для управления agile-проектами. See the speaker’s сonference session Suren Samarchyan Russia Suren is Head of project management department at Innova Systems. He has Ph.D. degree in pure mathematics and he is passionate about fundamental science. First time he experienced Extreme Programming at Monterey Design Systems (now part of Synopsys Inc) as a software developer in 2001. Few years later he discovered that Personal Software Process by Carnegie Mellon SEI nicely applies fundamental science approaches to software development and became PSP coach. Since that time he has been helping teams to practice different methodologies best fitting their concrete cases. Currently Suren’s interests are focused on enterprise level agile/lean adoptions. See the speaker’s сonference session Alexander Lesnevsky Russia Alexander graduated from Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics and started his carrer at Sukhoi JSC as a software engineer. In 80-ties he participated in creation of textbooks and courseware for newly born “Basics of computer science” school course in the former Soviet Union. At that time Alexander received his doctor’s degree in eductational technology and computer science from the Institute of Education Technology, he also wrote a book “Object Oriented Programming for Beginners”. Alexander worked for a number of software development companies including Luxoft and Artezio as an architect, project manager and CTO, in 2009 he started his own “Fight Crisis Now” consultancy, which helps software development companies to adopt Lean/Agile culture. Alexander is PMP and CSM. See the speaker’s сonference session Andrey Bibichev Руководитель отдела технологического развития в компании «Заказные ИнформСистемы» (www.custis.ru). В 2001-ом начинал с позиции ведущего разработчика, затем стал team-lead-ом, далее руководителем направления/архитектором. Участвовал в проектах по созданию корпоративных операционных и операционно-аналитических систем для крупных банков и торговых сетей, расчетно-платежного ПТК для ЖКХ Нижегородской области. Сейчас сконцентрирован на вопросах тех. процесса внутри компании: как на организационной стороне и практиках, так и на создании внутренних библиотек и инструментария. Приверженец Agile-методологий, сертифицированный Scrum-мастер. До 2001-ого года успел поработать в таких компаниях, как Server Ltd. (ведущий разработчик, участие в создании единой таможенной системы для Казахстана) и ГосНИИ Авиационных Систем (научная деятельность – обработка изображений, трехмерная реконструкция сцен по фотоснимкам). Выпускник Московского Физико-Технического Института, Факультет Управления и Прикладной Математики (1993-1999). See the speaker’s сonference session Askhat Urazbaev Russia, @ScrumTrek Признанный в индустрии эксперт, тренер и консультант по гибким методологиям. Основатель и координатор сообщества AgileRussia. Сертифицированный скрам-мастер (Certified Scrum Master) See the speaker’s сonference session Mikalai Alimenkou Ukraine, @Zoral Labs Mikalai is an expert in software development on Java and team management. More than 5 years of total experience, more than 3 years of work with Agile methodologies. Now works in “Zoral Labs” company as Technical Lead/Scrum Master. Mikalai has solid experience in implementation and usage of engineering practices (TDD, CI, unit testing, etc.). Also Mikalai is author and coach of a lot of trainings related to applications testing, planning activities, QA process, engineering practices. Many times as a speaker at “Agile Gathering” conference in Kiev. See the speaker’s сonference session Uladzimir Liashkevich Belarus, @Intetics С 2001 начал использовать Agile как подмножество практик XP – iteration planning, TDD, CI, collective code ownership и т.д. Руководил проектами в качестве технического лидера и ПМ-а. Проводил обучение и коучинг сотрудников. С 2006 года внедряю гибкие методы (SCRUM) в рамках компании. Участвую как project enabler и постановщик процессов. Провожу обучение техлидов и команд. See the speaker’s сonference session Artem Serdyuk Ukraine, @ISM Ukraine 9 лет опыта преподавательского и тренингового опыта. 4 года опыта в управлении проектами в роли Менеджера проектов и СкрамМастера (компания ИСМ Украина). На текущий момент – Agile Coach компании “ИСМ Украина”. Активно участвую в украинском Agile-movement, Agile coach movement. Certified ScrumMaster. See the speaker’s сonference session Timofey Yevgrashyn Ukraine, @TIM Тимофей Евграшин – основатель специализированной тренинговой компании “The Improved Methods” www.tim.com.ua ), практикующий Scrum-мастер . Более 12 лет в разработке ПО, последние 8 лет создает и руководит эффективными командами по разработке программного обеспечения. Последние три года обучает и внедряет подход Scrum в различных командах, проводит консультации по методологии Scrum и Agile-разработке, сертифицированный Scrum-мастер. Кроме того, Тимофей Евграшин работает на различном уровне с командами для выявления и преодоления проблем в их работе, проводит тренинги по командной работе. See the speaker’s сonference session Nikita Filippov Russia, @ScrumTrek Agile/Scrum тренер. See the speaker’s сonference session see all Co-organizers Gold sponsors Silver sponsors Web sponsors Info Partners Web-partners become a partner of Agileee learn how to appear here... Local Agile Communities connect your community with Agileee learn how to appear here... Copyright © 2009-2010 Agile Eastern Europe. All Rights Reserved.