Better Software - June 2008 - (Page 9)

Contributors celso gonzalez is one of the Rational World Wide Architecture Management leaders. His role is to provide expertise to IBM customers and internal resources in domains ranging from business modeling to J2EE development— including requirements management, architecture, and design. Lately Celso has been focusing on accelerating development using patternsbased engineering. tiM lister is a principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild (www.systems guild.com). Tim is a well-known expert and lecturer on software management techniques. He co-authored the popular book Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. pete McBreen is the author of Software Craftsmanship and Questioning Extreme Programming. He is an independent consultant who actually enjoys writing and delivering software. Despite spending a lot of time writing, teaching, and mentoring, he does hands-on coding on a live project every year. Pete specializes in finding creative solutions to problems that software developers face. After many years of working on formal and informal process improvement initiatives, he took a sideways look at the problem and realized, “Software development is meant to be fun. If it isn’t, the process is wrong.” Pete lives in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada with no plans to move back to a big city. Michele sliger has extensive experience in agile software development, having worked in both XP and Scrum teams before becoming a consultant. As a self-described “bridge builder,” her passion lies in helping those in traditional software development environments cross the bridge to agility. Her book The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility (with co-author Stacia Broderick) will focus on that topic, helping PMItrained project managers make the transition. A Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Michele can be reached at michele@sligerconsult ing.com. ed Weller is an SEI certified High Maturity Appraiser for CMMI appraisals, with nearly forty years of experience in hardware and software engineering. Ed is the principal of Integrated Productivity Solutions, a consulting firm that is focused on providing solutions to companies seeking to improve their development productivity. A regular columnist on StickyMinds.com, Ed can be contacted at edwardwellerIII@msn .com. www.StickyMinds.com JUNE 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE 9 http://www.systemsguild.com http://www.systemsguild.com http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - June 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributors Technically Speaking eLightenment Code Craft Test Connection Management Chronicles Agile Model-Driven Development The Myth of Risk Management Stop the Insanity! Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About … The Last Word Ad Index

Better Software - June 2008

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