Better Software - March 2008 - (Page 7)

Contributors chris McMAhon is an experienced software tester. He lives in a small town deep in the Four Corners area of southwest Colorado. He works for Socialtext, where a small agile group of skilled software creators distributed around the world is bringing the Wiki Way to thousands of people. Email him at christopher.mcmahon@ gmail.com. AlAn shAllowAy is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. Alan is an industry thought leader, conference speaker, trainer, and coach in the areas of lean software development, the lean-agile connection, Scrum, agile architecture, and using design patterns in agile environments. Alan is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained. yuri chernAk is the president and principal consultant of Valley Forge Consulting, Inc. Mr. Chernak has worked for a number of major financial firms in New York helping clients improve their software requirements and software testing practices. His research interests focus on aspect-oriented requirements engineering, software testing, and process improvement. Mr. Chernak is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He 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. Mr. Chernak has a doctorate in computer science. Contact him at ychernak@yahoo.com. MAMoon yunus is an advisor to Crosscheck Networks and an industry honored CTO and visionary in Web services-based technologies. As the founder of Forum Systems, Mamoon pioneered SOA Security Gateways & Firewalls. He has spearheaded Forum’s direction for six generations of award-winning Web services security products. Prior to Forum Systems, Mamoon was a global systems engineer for webMethods where he developed XML-based business architecture plans for Global 2000 companies. He has held high-level executive positions at Informix (acquired by IBM) and Cambridge Technology Group. InfoWorld recognized Mr. Yunus as one of four “upand-coming CTOs to watch in 2004.” Mr. Yunus holds two graduate degrees from MIT. GreGory PoPe has more than thirty-five years of experience applying common sense to developing software in the commercial and government sectors. Greg has held positions from programmer to CEO. He has consulted, presented, and taught software quality worldwide and also holds patents for automated software testing systems. Currently Greg works for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he is software quality engineering group leader and V&V project leader for advanced simulation and computing (ASC). He has a BS degree, an MBA, and is a CSQE. Greg continues to consult to industry clients, these worst practices are an amalgam of his many experiences. www.StickyMinds.com MARCH 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE 7 http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - March 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributors eLightenment Technically Speaking Code Craft Test Connection Management Chronicles Cover Story: Breaking Ground On SOA Software Development Worst Practices Mind the Gap Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About... The Last Word Ad Index

Better Software - March 2008

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