Better Software - January 2009 - (Page 6) Contributors DaviD anDeRson has been a manager and leader of great software teams delivering cutting-edge software products since 1991. David has a successful track record of building progressively larger teams capable of hyper-productive performance and superior quality. He helped found the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN)—a not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging better leadership and management in the IT sector. David is a current board member and a signatory of the Declaration of Interdependence, which documents the core values on which the APLN is founded. David specializes in cultural change for institutionalized, long-lasting implementation of lean and agile software development teams. Contact David at dja@djanderson associates.com or www.djanderson associates.com. Rex Black is president of RBCS (www.rbcs-us .com), a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing, providing consulting, outsourcing, and training services to clients on six continents. His first book, Managing the Testing Process, has sold more than 30,000 copies around the world, including Japanese, Chinese, and Indian releases. His other books on testing, Critical Testing Processes, Foundations of Software Testing, Pragmatic Software Testing, Advanced Software Testing: Volumes I and II, also have sold worldwide with five forken Young, vice president eign language editions. He has written more of process and quality than twenty-five articles; at CA, has more than presented hundreds of twenty years of experience managing software papers, workshops, and seminars; and given development projects. about thirty keynote speeches at conferences and events around the world. Rex is the president of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board. Michael Bolton lives in Toronto and teaches heuristics and exploratory testing in Canada, the United States, and other countries. He is co-author, with James Bach, of Rapid Software Testing and a regular contributor to Better Software magazine. Contact Michael at mb@developsense.com. YuRi cheRnak, Ph.D, is the president and principal consultant of Valley Forge Consulting, Inc. Yuri has worked for a number of major financial firms in New York, leading QA governance committees in IT and helping clients improve their software requirements and software testing practices. Yuri is a pioneer in implementing a new discipline— aspect-oriented requirements engineering—for financial applications on Wall Street. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, has been a speaker at several international conferences in the US and Canada, and has published papers in the IEEE publications and other professional journals. Contact Yuri at ychernak@yahoo.com. lee coPelanD has more than thirty years of experience in the field of software development and testing. He has worked as a programmer, development director, process improvement leader, and consultant. Based on his experience, Lee has developed and taught a number of training courses focusing on software testing and development issues. Lee is the managing technical editor for Better Software magazine, a regular columnist for StickyMinds.com, and the author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design. Contact Lee at lcopeland@sqe.com. 6 BETTER SOFTWARE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 www.StickyMinds.com http://www.rbcs-us.com http://www.rbcs-us.com http://www.StickyMinds.com http://www.djandersonassociates.com http://www.StickyMinds.com
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