Tim Lister
Author
Atlantic Systems Guild

Jason Zander
Corporate VP
Microsoft

Scott Guthrie
Corporate VP
Microsoft

Dave West
Senior Analyst
Forrester Research

Mark Russinovich
Technical Fellow
Microsoft

Brian Harry
Technical Fellow
Microsoft

Aaron
Bjork

Andrew
Bragdon

Anutthara
Bharadwaj

Arlo
Belshee

Cameron
Skinner

Chris
Hanaoka

Claude
Remillard

Cyndi
Mitchell

David
Starr

Debra
Forsyth

Doug
Neumann

Jez
Humble

John
Weigand

Justin
Marks

Keith
Pleas

Martin
Woodward

Melinda
Clover

Michael
Surface

Mik
Kersten

Miki
Konno

Mitch
Lacey

Peter
Provost

Rob
Beresford

Rob
Maher

Rod
Claar

Sam
Guckenheimer

Scott
Densmore

Steven
Borg

Steven
"Doc" List

Ward
Cunningham

William
Bartholomew

Aaron Bjork

Aaron Bjork is a Program Manager Lead working on Team Foundation Server (TFS). He is responsible for the process templates, reporting solutions, and Agile experiences that ship with TFS. Prior to joining Team Foundation Server in 2008, Aaron worked as a software engineer and development lead in Visual Studio. Aaron is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions and has a strong desire to see teams improve their software engineering practices. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Washington. Aaron is an avid golfer, and loves spending time with his wife and three kids.

Andrew Bragdon

Andrew is a Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate team working on developer collaboration tools. Andrew has a B.S. and Master’s in CS from Brown University. As a graduate student he developed a user interface and visualization for software development called Code Bubbles that makes it easy to see many functions onscreen at once. He also worked on gestural UIs such as Gesture Play, Hands-On Math , GestureBar, Lineogrammer and creating a multi-touch and NUI version of Code Bubbles to support developer meetings.

Anutthara Bharadwaj

Anutthara Bharadwaj is Lead Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools group at Microsoft Corporation. Anu has enjoyed building and breaking software in the various roles she has worked in through her 8 year Microsoft stint, shipping multiple versions of Visual Studio ALM

Anu has worked on some cool tools with Exploratory Testing as a central theme, has 3 patents from her research work in this area and has also contributed to James Whittaker’s book on Exploratory Testing. Anu is passionate about software testing and has presented at various test conferences all over the world on a number of topics.

She blogs at blogs.msdn.com/anutthara and tweets at twitter.com/anutthara

Arlo Belshee

Arlo does a little bit of everything, but what he really does is inspire courage. He has gone back and forth several times between management and in-the-trenches development on technically sophisticated products. He challenges every assumption he can find, and helps people learn to change – always and continuously. He has been involved in Agile since 1999. Yet in the middle of that period he worked for 2 years in a rigorous, effective, and pro-people Waterfall development shop. He’s a strong believer in discipline and the agility that comes from it, in punctuated continuity, and in change as the only constant. Don’t do anything he says, but learn why he says it and come up with something better. The best compliment he’s recently received was when a co-worker termed him the Company Jester – because Arlo always has permission to laugh at the King.

Brian Harry

Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server - a server-based product designed to dramatically improve the productivity, predictability, and agility of software development teams by ensuring that all team members have easy access to the information they need to make the right decisions at the right time.

Harry worked at start up DaVinci Systems doing electronic mail software from 1988 to 1992. In 1992 Harry left DaVinci Systems with two others to create One Tree Software. One Tree, was a classic garage-type startup company that developed and sold SourceSafe (the same product that is now Microsoft Visual SourceSafe). One Tree Software was acquired by Microsoft in 1994.

After joining Microsoft, Harry worked in what was then the Tools and Databases division. In 1996 he and others began working on the problem of improving the approachability of API for the developer masses. Although this started as investigation of ways to extend COM it eventually grew into what we now know as the .NET Framework. Harry served as the Development manager for the Common Language Runtime and then as the PUM through the rest of the V1 and most of the V1.1 product cycle.

Harry has had a passion for software development tools that dates to his college years in the mid 1980s at North Carolina State University where he did research on compilers, linkers, assemblers, and processor simulation systems.

Cameron Skinner

Cameron Skinner joined Microsoft in 2005 and is currently a product unit manager on the Visual Studio team. He is responsible for overseeing the Visualization and Architecture capabilities found in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Skinner was the CTO and chief architect of application development tools for Embarcadero Technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as CTO for Advanced Software Technologies. In his limited spare time, Mr. Skinner enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, Crossfit, and playing his acoustic bass.

Chris Hanaoka

Chris Hanaoka is responsible for Global Foundation Services (GFS) software development. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was Vice President (VP) of Production Engineering at Yahoo. Prior to that, he was VP of Technology at IAC Search and Media (also known as Ask.com), and led Research and Development at Bowne Global Solutions (now called Lionbridge), a leading internationalization and localization firm, where he pioneered and co-developed the first commercial translation memory system.

Claude Remillard

Mr. Remillard is co-founder of InCycle Software - a leading firm providing ALM consulting services for .NET development teams. His primary area of evangelism is the adoption of best practices in software development lifecycle management. Over the last two decades, Mr. Remillard has held different executive positions in the software and technology market. This includes the position of President of Acceleron, a software company that developed and marketed an expense management solution with close to half a million licenses sold worldwide.

Cyndi Mitchell

Cyndi Mitchell is the Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Studios where she has general management responsibility for global strategy, sales, marketing, business development, product engineering and customer success.

Cyndi is passionate about the potential for software to have a strategic impact on most of today’s organizations. She helps business and technology leaders around the world develop culture and organizational practices that increase responsiveness and create competitive advantage through software.

Since she joined ThoughtWorks in 2002, Cyndi has served the company in a variety of roles including development, consulting and general management. Prior to leading ThoughtWorks Studios, Cyndi was Managing Director of ThoughtWorks UK. Cyndi has also served as a Senior Architect with Sun Microsystems in New York, Chicago, and London. She started her career with Andersen Consulting in Chicago.

David Starr

David Starr is the Chief Craftsman for Scrum.org where he focuses on improving the professional of software development. He focuses on agile software development, the Visual Studio ALM platform, and patterns and practices in .NET. He enjoys helping software development teams improve and expressing human intent to computers.

He is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP, host of the Pluralcast podcast, and the founder of the blogging community ElegantCode.com.

Debra Forsyth

Debra is the Quality Assurance Practice Lead and a Senior QA Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting. As QA Practice Lead, Debra is an experienced Visual Studio Team System and Test Edition instructor and consultant providing training and support to clients. Recently Microsoft awarded Debra the MVP (Microsoft Most Valued Professional) award for her involvement with the community. Debra is the first person to be awarded an MVP for their involvement in the testing community. As well as the first woman to be awarded the ALM MVP (Application Life Management). She has over 15 years' experience in software testing within various business fields. A passionate advocate of the Agile/Scrum methodology, Debra mentors companies and test teams in the process of becoming Agile.

Skilled in the design and execution of comprehensive Software Quality Assurance processes/procedures, with proven qualifications in test life cycle, strategy/plan, test case/data design, risk assessment, functional/performance automated tools implementation, environment set up, defect and configuration management. Debra has succeeded in helping many teams turn their testing effort into a successful endeavor that raised the product quality and met project time lines. As well, Debra has a Computer Programming Certificate from Sheridan College, and is experienced with many different testing tools on the market today. She currently participates in Microsoft’s Inner Circle meetings for all Microsoft testing tools. She is also the author and trainer for the ObjectSharp Team Foundation Server for QA Professionals course.

Doug Neumann

Doug Neumann has been working on Team Foundation Server since its inception in early 2003 when he was responsible for designing a new version control tool to succeed Visual SourceSafe. Currently he is a Principal Group Program Manager for the product and manages the teams responsible for the version control, build automation, web access, Eclipse integration, and administrative features of the product.

Jason Zander

Jason Zander is the corporate vice president of the Visual Studio Team in the Developer Division at Microsoft. Zander's responsibilities include the Visual Studio family of products, which covers a range of technologies: programming languages; JavaScript runtime and tools; integrated development environment and ecosystem; Microsoft Office, SharePoint and cloud tooling integration; source control and work item tracking; and advanced architecture, developer, and testing tools.

As one of the original developers of the Common Language Runtime (CLR), Zander's primary technical areas of contribution include file formats, metadata, compilers, debugging and profiling, and integration of the system into key platforms such as operating systems and databases. Before joining the Visual Studio Team, Zander was the general manager for the .NET Framework Team. He has worked on numerous products at Microsoft, including the first several releases of the CLR and .NET Framework, Silverlight, SourceSafe, and ODBC. Before joining Microsoft in 1992, Zander worked at IBM Corp. on distributed SQL and SQL/400 at the Rochester lab.

Zander holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Minnesota State University. In his spare time, he enjoys playing with his three children and making furniture in his shop.

Jez Humble

Jez Humble has been fascinated by computers and electronics since getting his first ZX Spectrum at age 11. He got into IT in 2000, just in time for the dot-com bust. Since then he has worked as a developer, system administrator, trainer, consultant, manager, and speaker. He has worked with a variety of platforms and technologies, consulting for nonprofits, telecoms, financial services, and online retail companies.

Since 2004 he has worked for ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorks Studios in Beijing, Bangalore, London, and San Francisco. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MMus in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is presently living in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Jim Newkirk

Jim Newkirk is Director of Development for the Health Solutions group in Microsoft. Prior to that, Jim was Director of Development for the Systems Engineering group in Microsoft Services, the development lead for Code Gallery, and the development lead for the Microsoft patterns & practices team. Jim was also the Conference Chair for Agile 2010, the creator of NUnit, and the co-creator of xUnit.

John Weigand

John Wiegand is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, working in Oregon, USA. He has 25 years of experience in software development environments. John is the Rational Chief Architect and is responsible for open tooling architecture for the Jazz platform. Before this, John was the principal architect for the Eclipse Platform infrastructure and is a former member of the Eclipse Foundation Board, playing a key leadership role in establishing Eclipse as a successful open source project.

Justin Marks

Justin Marks is a senior program manager in Team Foundation Server working on the lightweight requirements offering for Visual Studio vNext including PowerPoint Storyboarding and feedback from stakeholders. During the Visual Studio 2010 product cycle, Justin worked on the user experience and collection model for IntelliTrace. During his 9 years at Microsoft, Justin has also worked on MSN.com as a Systems Engineer during the version 8 and 9 product cycles and on the Windows Shell as both a Software Design Engineer in Test and a Program Manager during Vista and Windows 7.

Keith Pleas

Keith Pleas is a software architect and one of the founders of Guided Design and has worked with the patterns & practices team for several years where he was the architect and subject matter expert for "Design for Operations". Prior to that he worked for more than two years on the team developing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Keith is an internationally known writer and speaker and past Editorial Chair for the VSLive conferences. He was also a founding Contributing Editor to "Visual Studio Magazine", and a Contributing Editor to numerous other publications including "Windows NT Magazine". Keith has developed several Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith was a founding board member of INETA where he also created the INETA Speakers Bureau.

Mark Russinovich

Dr. Mark Russinovich is a Technical Fellow working in the Platform and Services division. Russinovich is a widely recognized expert in Windows operating system internals, and operating architecture and design. His discovery of a rootkit on popular Sony audio CDs led to industry reforms in the area of computer privacy.

Russinovich joined Microsoft when it acquired Winternals Software, the company he cofounded in 1996 and where he worked as Chief Software Architect. He is also cofounder of Sysinternals.com, where he wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer and RootkitRevealer. He previously worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, researching operating system support for Web server acceleration and serving as an operating systems expert.

Russinovich coauthored Inside Windows 2000 and Windows Internals, both from Microsoft Press, is Senior Contributing Editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine, and has written dozens of articles on Windows internals. He has been a featured speaker at major industry conferences around the world, including Microsoft's TechEd, IT Forum, Professional Developer's Conference, Windows Connections, Windev, and TechMentor, and has taught Windows internals, troubleshooting, and file system and device driver development to companies worldwide, including Microsoft, the CIA and the FBI.

Russinovich earned his Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Martin Woodward

Martin Woodward is a Senior Program Manager for the Team Foundation Server group at Microsoft. He looks after the Team Foundation Server Power Tools and Team Explorer Everywhere where he helps to ensure that Eclipse and cross-platform developers are a thriving part of the TFS eco-system. Before joining Microsoft, Martin worked for Teamprise and was also voted Team System MVP of the year. He has also co-authored the Wrox books Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 and Professional Team Foundation Server 2010.

When not working or writing, Martin can be found over on his blog at woodwardweb.com or on Twitter @martinwoodward.

Melinda Clover

Melinda clover is a Senior Product Manager for HP ALM. Melinda has spent the last 15 years working with enterprise software across a variety of verticals, including Customer Relationship Management, Human Capital Management, IT Project Management and now Application Lifecycle Management. She has held positions as a Business Analyst, Services Consultant, Services Project Manager, and as a Product Manager at multiple software companies in Silicon Valley. For the past six years she has focused on IT Management from building products to support project and portfolio management methodologies, compliance and regulatory needs, and lately supporting ALM and application transformation processes. She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Iowa.

Michael Surface

Michael Surface is extremely passionate about technology and how it can be used to greatly increase our ability to digest information, course correct, and ultimately deliver solutions that exceed expectations. At Boeing, Michael: leads teams building Silverlight and web based LOB applications, introduces teams to agile and SOLID development principles, and works with enterprise architecture and other developers to develop and evangelize new software development standards and practices around the latest Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Test Manager, Blend and .NET to name a few.

Mik Kersten

Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator and leader of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture and Planning councils. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.

Miki Konno

Miki Konno is a senior user experience researcher on the Developer Division (DevDiv) UX team. She holds advanced degrees in Human Factors Engineering and Organizational Psychology, and she has been in technology industry for last 16 years. Miki started her UX research career as an intern at Honda in 1996, a navigation software project with the large scale automobile-simulations. She worked at Sony, Hewlett-Packard, and Nielsen-Norman Group before starting at Microsoft in 2005 in the Windows Media Center group. She also worked in MSTV and MSN before finding her current home in DevDiv. Miki's current focus is Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS). Within TFS, she has also worked on Personas, Agile UX research methods, Agile Project/Requirements Management tools, Hosted TFS, TFS Raving Fan scenarios, Team Explorer design, PPT Storyboarding tools, Japan VS/ ALM research, and others. She is also a frequent speaker about her other research areas: International UX Research, Multi-Media UX (TV & Video),and Web usability.

Mitch Lacey

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer. Mitch has been managing projects for over twelve years and has numerous plan-driven and agile projects under his belt.

Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live. Mitch's first agile team at Microsoft was coached by Ward Cunningham (creator of the wiki and co-creator of Extreme Programming), Jim Newkirk (creator of nUnit) and David Anderson (Kanban advocate).

While at Microsoft, he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices. After Microsoft, Mitch was the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he practiced agility on the projects he ran every day while coaching customers on agile practices and lessons on agile adoption worldwide.

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, Agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs and white papers.

He is the author of “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing” presented and published at the Agile 2006 conference, “Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field” presented and published at the Fall 2007 PMI Global Congress in Atlanta, Georgia and "The Impacts of Poor Estimating - and How to Fix It" presented and published at the winter 2007 SQE Agile development conference in Orlando, Florida.

Peter Provost

Peter Provost is a Program Manager for Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate where he focuses on agile development tooling, code-centric modeling and product extensibility. Prior to that, Peter managed the patterns & practices development team at Microsoft where they created Guides, Software Factories and Application Blocks like Enterprise Library and the Composite User Interface Application Block. Before joining Microsoft, he was a consultant in the Rocky Mountain region focusing on Microsoft technologies and agile software development techniques. He has spoken at a number of conferences and user groups and has written articles on test-driven development, ASP.NET, Web services and other topics.

Rob Beresford

Rob Beresford worked with the Washington State University / University of Idaho Hybrid Electric Vehicle team and at Western Washington University at the Vehicle Research Institute (VRI). He has a passionate lifelong interest in efficient transportation systems. Towards this end he has been a part of and lead numerous teams in a spectrum of vehicle design projects and competitions. He is now working with nascent automaker WIKISPEED, Inc. to further develop and produce the SGT01, a safe, high-performing modular passenger car capable of 100+ mpg.

Rob Maher

Rob Maher is currently an Agile Development coach at a large New Zealand insurer. He is New Zealand’s only Professional Scrum Trainer and Professional Scrum Developer Trainer with Ken Schwaber’s Scrum.org. Rob has run many Scrum and ALM training courses and workshops.

With over 15 years of software development experience he has a history of leading change in large organisations. Rob has helped several companies transition to Scrum and improve their software development lifecycle using solid ALM practices.

Rob's experience includes everything from working as a Scrum Master coaching teams in Scrum and software development practices to helping testers master automated testing techniques. He is a frequent speaker at Scrum and technology events such as ALM Conferences and Tech-Ed

Rod Claar

Rod is an internationally recognized leader in the area of software development. His special focus is on large teams and projects to increase the velocity of software development through coaching, training, and consulting. He has spent considerable time in the classroom training on Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Scrum, and Agile Methodologies.

Not only does Rod speak to all levels of an organization effectively, he also spans many technologies in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space to take advantage of software tools to increase visibility and productivity of teams. By combining methodologies and tools along with world-class training, Rod is a powerhouse of experience and wisdom. His witty sense of humor and gaming theory is also a pleasure to work with. Rod is leading the Agile Practice Team in North America for RippleRock and is a member of the Global Leadership Team.

Sam Guckenheimer

Sam Guckenheimer is the Group Product Planner for Visual Studio. Sam is also the author of Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. He has 25 years experience as architect, developer, tester, product manager, project manager and general manager in the software industry in the US and Europe. Currently, Sam is the Group Product Planner for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. In this capacity, he acts as chief customer advocate, responsible for the end-to-end external design of the next releases of these products. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Sam was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, now the Rational Division of IBM. He holds five patents on software lifecycle tools. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Sam is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University.

Scott Densmore

Scott Densmore works as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. His primary interests are cloud computing and mobile device computing. He has been delivering content and code on technology for the last 15 years.

You can find him at http://scottdensmore.typepad.com/ and on Twitter @scottdensmore.

Scott Guthrie

Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications.

A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the Web.

Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development.

Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

Steven Borg

Steven is the Co-Founder and Principal ALM Consultant of Northwest Cadence. Northwest Cadence is a national leader in Microsoft ALM and Software Process solutions and the first US-based organization to be recognized by Microsoft as a Gold ALM Partner focusing exclusively on Application Lifecycle Management. Steve has been a Microsoft ALM MVP since product inception in 2005, speaks regularly at Software Development and Visual Studio conferences and has authored Microsoft courseware and white papers on Team Foundation Server, regulatory compliance in software development, Scrum and Lean. Steven has helped hundreds of organizations, both large and small, adopt Visual Studio ALM tools, improving their software development process, reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding delivery dates. His expertise lies in bringing successful lean and agile adoption to companies currently using traditional project management techniques to manage software development projects. Steve also holds several other credentials including MCP, MCSD, MCT and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Steven "Doc" List

What can I say? Born in New York City, spent a couple of decades (and then a bit) in Silicon Valley building a family and a technology and management career, moved to Austin, Texas.

Much of my career has been spent working for small startup companies. Along the way, a few of those companies were my own. Most recently, I worked for ThoughtWorks as an organizational and product delivery consultant.

I’m involved in the agile community, helping organizations learn about agile and adopt agile practices. I’m also an Open Space Technology facilitator, because I love it and believe in it. From time to time, I present on a variety of topics, and have been a professional motivational speaker.

My passions are my family and my photography.

Thomas Grant

Tom Grant serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals. He is a leading expert on the parts that application development and delivery play in the larger innovation process. His research interests include innovation, products and productization, Agile, product management, serious games, social media as an input into development, road maps, requirements, application life-cycle management, and embedded software.

Tom is a leading expert on the parts that application development and delivery play in the larger innovation process. His research interests include innovation, products and productization, Agile, product management, serious games, social media as an input into development, road maps, requirements, application life-cycle management, and embedded software.

Tim Lister

Tim Lister is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc., based in the New York office. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Currently he is working on tailoring software development processes using software risk management techniques. Tim was a guest lecturer on software risk management at the Stanford University School of Business, and gave the Dean’s Lecture at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was a member of the Airlie Software Council, a group of industry consultants, advising the DoD on best practices for software development and acquisition, and is a member of the Cutter Business Technology Council.

Tim, along with the other 5 Principals at the Guild, is co-author of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior. He is co-author with Tom DeMarco of the text Waltzing With Bears: Managing Software Project Risk which won a Jolt Award for best general computing text. Tim and Tom are also co-authors of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd ed.. Peopleware has been translated into ten languages.

Tim Lister has over 35 years of professional software development experience. Before the formation of the Atlantic Systems Guild, he worked at Yourdon Inc. from 1975 to 1983. At Yourdon he was an Executive Vice President and Fellow, in charge of all instructor/consultants, the technical content of all courses, and the quality of all consultations.

Tim Lister lives in Manhattan. He holds an A.B. from Brown University, and is a member of the I.E.E.E. and the A.C.M. He also serves as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association, arbitrating disputes involving software and software services, and has served as an expert witness in litigation proceedings involving software problems.

Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham serves as Nike's open-data for sustainability fellow. He has been CTO at CitizenGlobal, a growth company enabling the co-creation of media. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. He has served as CTO of AboutUs, a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory.

Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continues to be held all over the word.

William Bartholomew

William Bartholomew is a Software Development Engineer in Microsoft's Developer Division Engineering Systems group (DES) where he focuses on build process automation. William co-authored Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build which is now in its Second Edition and maintains a 5 star rating. He relocated to cloudy Redmond, Washington from sunny Queensland, Australia where he was a Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio ALM) and regular presenter at user groups and technical conferences.