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 Tim Lister
"Adult Behavior on Projects"
Tim Lister is a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Along with Tom DeMarco, he co-authored the 2004 Jolt Award winning book, Waltzing With Bears: Managing Software Project Risk. Tim and Tom are also co-authors of Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Tim has over 30 years of professional software development experience. 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.
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 Preston Smith
"Lessons on Agility from the Product Development World"
Preston has been consulting to and training companies in rapid product development for twenty years. The products involved—such as medical electronics, telecommunications, food packaging, industrial control software, footwear, motor vehicles, and semiconductors—have often included software and often have not. He is coauthor of Developing Products in Half the Time, of which there are 100,000 copies in use in several languages. He holds an engineering PhD from Stanford and is a Certified Management Consultant. For more detail, see www.NewProductDynamics.com.
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The Agile Development Conference is an open forum welcoming all agile methodologies, new and old, with sessions for all roles including executives, managers, programmers and testers. The Agile Development Conference has earned a reputation as the place to go for balanced and up-to-the-minute information on the agile end of the industry by remaining true to its original vision:
- Create an open community for exploration of all agile methods
- Share experiences and research across disciplines
- Welcome new members to the world of Agile Development
- Consolidate data about Agile Development to aid research and implementation
See where agile techniques came from and where they are headed. Catch up on how to run meetings, design user interfaces effectively, test, design, set up and manage projects. Learn about Scrum, XP, FDD, Crystal, Adaptive, and methodologies you have never heard of. Listen to experience reports from the field, research reports from academics and field researchers. Take part in the open discussions of Open Space. But most of all meet interesting people and take the time for deep discussions on your own favorite themes.
As one person said, several months after the 2003 conference, "I was told this conference would be a four-day conversation. That was only partly right. It was the four-day start to an ongoing, and fascinating, conversation with people around the world."
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