Better Software - November 2008 - (Page 7)

Contributors claire loHr has been an active professional in the computer field for forty years, with the past twenty years focused on software process improvement. Claire currently provides training and consulting services for a wide variety of both government and commercial clients. She is a Lloyd’s Register-trained ISO 9000 Lead Auditor. Claire has been trained to perform software capability evaluations for the SW-CMM. She chaired the IEEE 8292008 Working Group, and has served on both the IEEE Computer Society’s Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) and the IEEE Computer Society’s Standards Advisory Board (SAB; as Vitality Chair). Melanie tayler is the quality assurance project lead at Macadamian Technologies. She has spent her professional career developing and driving the company’s quality processes while adapting them to the challenges of agile methodologies. You can reach Melanie at melanie@macadamian .com. daniel WellMan is a technical lead at Cyrus Innovation (www .cyrusinnovation.com), a leading New York agile consultancy where he leads development projects and coaches teams on adopting agile software development practices. Daniel has more than ten years of experience building software systems and is an expert in agile methodologies, object-oriented design, and test-driven development. Contact Daniel at dan@daniel wellman.com. Jon dicKinson is an independent software development consultant based in the UK. He specializes in using agile software development principles and techniques to help teams improve the consistency of their software delivery successes. Jon is currently co-authoring a training course to help teams integrate agile software development with user-centered design. He is also writing a book, which is due out at the end of spring 2009, on Web application development for the new Java/ Groovy-based framework, Grails. Where Mars meets Venus, Jon remains focused on finding ways for developers and designers to jell into effective delivery teams. As head of user experience at Isotrak Ltd., darius KuMana ensures that the company’s agile product development approach remains focused on the goals, needs, and desires of real people. Previously, Darius was head of new media at Cambridge Assessment (University of Cambridge), where he was tasked with growing a center of excellence for user-centered design. Darius has worked across a variety of industries, including finance, education, retail, logistics, and nonprofit. His experience ranges from multinational companies to avant-garde firms and start ups. Where Venus meets Mars, Darius remains focused on successfully integrating UCD practices within agile environments. He is co-writing a new training course on “usagility.” www.StickyMinds.com NOVEMBER 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE 7 http://www.cyrusinnovation.com http://www.cyrusinnovation.com http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - November 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributors eLightenment Technically Speaking Code Craft Test Connection Management Chronicles Getting Agile with User-Centered Design Google Web Toolkit Simple Summaries of Complex Projects Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About … The Last Word Ad Index

Better Software - November 2008

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