Dave Snowden

Dave Snowden, Director of the Cynfin Centre for Organisational Complexity, is one of the founders of organic knowledge management, he pioneered the use of story techniques as a means of knowledge disclosure and a key aspect of creating a knowledge strategy. His subsequent work has taken him into the integration of learning and knowledge using models derived from complexity science. He has developed advanced techniques for the management of informal communities and the simulation of social networks. His work on narrative has continued to develop with highly original work on the use of archetypes for a variety of purposes, oral history as an alternative to Intellectual Capital Management Systems and the integration of complexity and narrative models into advanced decision making tools and scenario planning. Dave Snowden has an MBA from Middlesex University and a BA in Philosophy from Lancaster University. He is an honorary fellow in knowledge management at the University of Warwick and teaches on the MBA programmes at Warwick, Sophia Antipolis and Piacenza.

Tom Gilb

Tom Gilb was born in Pasadena in 1940, emigrated to London 1956, and to Norway 1958, where he joined IBM for 5 years, and where he resides when not traveling. He has mainly worked within the software engineering community, but since 1983 with Corporate Top Management problems, and 1988 with large-scale systems engineering. He is an independent teacher, consultant and writer. He has published eight books, including the early coining of the term "Software Metrics" (1976) which is the basis for SEI CMM Level 4. He wrote "Principles of Software Engineering Management" (1988, now in 13th printing), and "Software Inspection" (1993). Both titles are really systems engineering books in software disguise. His pro-bono systems engineering activities include several weeks a year for US DoD and Norwegian DoD, and Environmental (EPA) and Third-World Aid charities and organizations. A new Agile Evo paper by Tom just appeared Sept 2003. website

Tim Bacon

Tim has been involved in professional software development for over 12 years in locations ranging from Switzerland to Slough. He is a self-confessed 'people person' and a passionate advocate of agile processes, software craftsmanship, and ExtremeProgramming. Tim has been a speaker at several agile events and is currently working as an independent coach and consultant.

Luke Barrett

Luke is an interaction and interface designer who has worked for over eight years building and designing software applications for use by a wide variety of end-users. Working for clients large and small Luke has designed systems delivered by kiosk, web, DTV as well as rich client. Currently with ThoughtWorks, he is focused on how best to apply design and usability skills to the XP projects he is engaged on. Luke has also contributed to projects in the role of business analyst and is particularly interested in the intersection of design, usability and analysis.

John Birtley

John Birtley has been a specialist in Configuration and Build Management since 1994 with a focus on deployment – particularly the packaging and installation of developed applications. He has worked for a number of blue-chip organisations including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Sony and Ericsson in the transition from development to deployment. BuildMonkey was launched in January 2004, to package and commoditise this cumulative experience under the title of “Agile Deployment”. He lives in Southampton, where dogs and children conspire to take what little spare time he has.

Keith Braithwaite

Keith Braithwaite began his programming career writing compilers, moved on to wireless network planning, distributed systems for finance houses, and then the "e-commerce" boom. After the bubble burst he worked on applications and OS extensions for mobile phones, and is now working at WDS Global on the server side of mobile device management. He learned about XP from the c2 wiki, and was one of the earliest adopters of XP in the UK. He has helped organisations throughout the UK learn about and gain the benefits of XP, and is a frequent speaker on XP, agile methods and object-orientation.

Peter Brown

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe

Pascal Van Cauwenberghe is an independent consultant with his own company NAYIMA. He applies XP, agile, Systems Thinking, Lean Thinking, Theory of Constraints and all kinds of other stuff to make his life and that of his customers and co-workers more pleasant and satisfying. Pascal has co-organised sessions at XP 2001, XP Universe 2001, OT2002, OT2003 and XP Day Benelux and co-organizes the XP Day Benelux (http://www.xpday.net/) conference. He co-founded the Belgian Extreme Programming interest group (http://www.xp.be).

Clark Ching

Clarke Ching is a former developer, analyst, project manager, and marketing manager, who has recently completed an MBA in Technology Management with the Open University. He is currently writing a book. Clarke is the moderator of the SellingAgile and TOCSoftware yahoo groups, the author of the I Think Not Baby Puppy weblog, and (currently) a non-practicing, frustrated agilist. He is a New Zealander living in Scotland.

Romilly Cocking

Alia Cooper

Alia Cooper is a change manager at Schroders Investment Management, where she works on a business improvement project with people located in the UK, North America and Asia. Previously she helped design software development processes at Tesco, influenced by the principles laid out in the Agile Manifesto. Her interest in the topic of cross cultural teamwork is driven by recent experience of both offshore software development and global project work and the challenges faced in these environments.

Rachel Davies

Rachel Davies is an independent coach and facilitator in UK. She is passionate about agile software development because it can increase the chance of success in the face of complex problems and recognizes that teams are made-up of individuals rather than resources. Rachel specialises in XP and Scrum flavours of agile and advocates the use of frequent retrospectives to help teams adapt their process to their context. She feels it is important to share success stories, lessons learned and connect with others using agile techniques. For this reason Rachel puts much of her spare time into the organization of agile events and work for the AgileAlliance. Her company website can be found at Agile Experience.You may contact her at rachel@agilexp.com

Willem van den Ende

Wille van den Ende (willem@cq2.nl)is currently working as an independent software development coach and consultant at CQ2 (http://www.cq2.nl/coaching/toon).He fulfills the role of architect,project leader,management advisor,coach or programmer. He co-founded the Dutch Extreme Programming interest group (http://www.xp-nl.org), the Benelux systems thinkers group,co-organizes XP Day Benelux (http://www.xpday.net) and has co-organised sessions on XP2001,XP2004,OT2002 through OT2004 and XP Day Benelux.

Marc Evers

Marc Evers works as a software developer and coach for NIWI (Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services) in The Netherlands. He has been applying, coaching, teaching, and preaching XP and agile software development since 2000. Marc is actively involved in the Dutch XP users group. He has co-organised workshops on systems thinking at the OT2003 and XP2004 conferences and co-organises the XP Day Benelux conferences.

Lisa Hunter

Lisa Hunter is a Business Project Manager for Egg plc. Over the last 12 months she has worked with Agile teams as a customer representative and has a comprehensive understanding of the obstacles that arise and how they can be overcome to achieve successful implementation. Lisa is passionate about maximising Business interaction with IT and the challenges that this presents.

Ray Gallagher

Ray Gallagher had occasion to work for many varied companies around the world. Many methodologies were thrown at him, and didn't fit, until he found XP. XP fits.

Boris Gloger

Boris Gloger organized the first Srcum Gathering in Vienna 2004. He is one of three available Scrum Trainers. He consults companies like www.uptime.at and Sun Microsystems Vienna in implemenating Scrum. He worked as a Team Lead and PM of software devekopment teams for companies like ONE (www.one.at), Vienna; BroadVision, Munich (www.broadvision.com); and Electronic Data Systems in Germany.

Marco Jansen

Marco Jansen is an Iteration Manager for ThoughtWorks in London. He is specialised in J2EE and EAI projects and combines practices from XP, Scrum and NLP to make delivering software easier and enjoyable.

William Jones

William Jones is a independent consultant, currently working at BNP Paribas. His years of using more traditional methods have made him appreciate Agile all the more.

Mark Kennedy

Mark Kennedy is a project manager on an XP team at BNP Paribas.

Dave Kirby

Dave Kirby is a software developer with twenty years experience, and a trained life coach. He is currently working for a startup company that is transitioning to agile development, and he also offers coaching services for software professionals. He co-hosted an Open Space session at XPDay02 and ran a workshop on coaching skills for development teams at XPDay03.

Olivier Lafontan

Olivier Lafontan has spent the last six years working in programme/project management, specializing on Customer Relationship Management business aspects. He has alternated roles from both "Technology" and "Business" sides of the fence in companies such as BT, Lexmark, Unipart and Freesbee. Olivier currently work for Egg plc, ranked as the world’s largest pure online bank and has been helping their transition towards an Agile model for the last two years. He now focuses on adapting some of the practices and values that XP advocates to areas outside the IT community.

Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff's work and education have involved a mix of software and psychology. This combination explains his interest in user-centered practices as well as the developer-centered practices that are at the heart of agile methodology. He was one of the early researchers of usability patterns and continues to be interested in design patterns, frameworks, and other means of delivering usable architecture. Michael was educated in Melbourne and is based in London. He recently completed a usability analysis and specification of a pricing engine for a European investment bank. He is now engaged in a J2EE development and architecture role on an electronic trading platform.

Andy Marks

Andy is a Consultant with ThoughtWorks Australia with over 12 years combined experience as a Java developer and teacher at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His passion is trying to combine these two fields as an Agile/XP coach.

Hubert Matthews

Hubert Matthews is a freelance consultant specialising in Architecture and Design as well as training, with clients ranging from large organisations such as DHL and Orange through to SMEs and startups. He has a PhD in Engineering from Oxford University, and lives in Oxford. In his ample spare time, he dances salsa, coaches rowing, practices aikido and drives too fast.

Jackie Mitchell

Jackie Mitchell is a Business Consultant for Egg plc. She has been working as a proxy customer for two and a half years and formed part of the first agile teams at Egg. Jackie feels strongly that the customer plays a key role in Agile development and believes that working to help customers get clear on what they want and how they can get it will improve the success of agile projects.

John Nolan

John Nolan is currently a Princiapl Investigator for Sun Microsystems Research, working on tiny VMs in tiny wireless devices. He is an acknowledged leader in Extreme Programming having founded and run Connextra for 5 years, possibly the world's longest running XP project. Prior to Connextra, Nolan developed and delivered applications in various sectors such as petrochemicals, finance, electronic commerce and advertising. He has a long record of turning innovative ideas into real money making applications. Nolan won the Royal Society prize for Industrial Innovation in 1989 for his work at British Petroleum research.

In his spare time Nolan pursues a ridiculous number of hobbies including furniture making, painting, reading, hiking, motor mechanics, photography and anything he hasn't tried yet (which is a small list, suggestions welcome).

Dan North

Dan North has been writing software for 12 years, and is a programmer and coach for ThoughtWorks, a software development consultancy, where he encourages people to write tests.

Sean O'Donnell

Sean O'Donnell works for 3Q Solutions in Dublin and has been developing in Java on a wide variety of projects from CMS's to parking meters since 2000. Sean joined 3Q Solutions in 2003 and became a happy disciple of Software Craftsmanship and XP Development practices.

Vera Peeters

Vera Peeters is an independent consultant. She runs her own company TRYX. She has 15 years experience in developing software systems, especially object-oriented development in all kinds of high-technological environments. She has been pracicing agile ways of working for several years now. Vera has presented workshops at several conferences (XP200X, XPUniverse, OT200X). She is a co-organizer of the XPDay Benelux (http://www.xpday.be) and of the Javapolis conferences (http://www.javapolis.org). In 2001, she founded the Belgian XP User Group (http://www.xp.be) together with Pascal Van Cauwenberghe.

Joseph Pelrine

Joseph Pelrine is C*O of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. In addition to being one of Europe's most experienced eXtreme Programming practitioners and coaches, he is also Europe's first certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and Trainer

Duncan Pierce

Duncan Pierce has a PhD in "Foundations of Software Reuse", and degrees from Southampton University and Oxford University. He has previously worked as a system architect, a senior Java developer at Connextra, using Extreme Programming, and an XP and J2EE consultant. He co-founded Amarinda at the start of 2003 to bring practical experience of XP, other Agile methods and techniques, J2EE, dynamic languages and open source experience to a wider audience. Amarinda improve software development through better tools, processes, developer and manager skills and technologies. Last year he was Conference Chair for the third XPDay conference, the UK's own XP/Agile conference, organized by the Extreme Tuesday Club (XTC). Along with Paul Simmons, he developed the Xbots workshop - a chance to try the XP process while creating mayhem in a simulated robot arena. Email: duncan.pierce@amarinda.com

Helen Sharp

Joe Walnes

Alan Cameron Wills

Please note the organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme and speakers, or to cancel sessions if enrollment criteria are not met or when conditions beyond our control prevail.