Wellington and Sydney
21-22 and 24-25 March 2011
Don't miss the pre- and post- conference workshops.
Pre-conference Workshop:
Sydney only,
Wednesday 23 March
The Agile Business Analyst
Post-conference Workshop:
Wellington only,
Wednesday 23 March
Agile Facilitation
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SDC 2011 - Speakers
Here's where you'll find details of the impressive line-up of international and local speakers. Book now!
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| Johanna Rothman Rothman Consulting Group (USA) | Kent J. McDonald Knowledge Bridge Partners & Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance (USA) | Steve Adolph Agile Coach, Rally Software (USA) | Shane Hastie Chief Knowledge Engineer Software Education (NZ/AU) | Nigel Dalton General Manager of IT, Lonely Planet (AU) |
More to be announced
| Johanna Rothman Johanna is an internationally recognised expert in managing IT product and software development. She helps managers and leaders solve problems and seize opportunities. Johanna consults, speaks and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams and organisations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project, product and people management. Johanna has written a number of popular books. Her most recent book is "Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects". Previous books include the 2008 Jolt Productivity award winning "Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management"; and "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management" (with Esther Derby). Johanna has also authored numerous articles and manages two blogs - Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People - details of which can found at her web site www.jrothman.com. We are honoured that Johanna can join us in 2011.
Johanna will present the conference opening and closing keynotes Creating and Adaptable Life and Who's on Your Team? in Wellington and Sydney. |
| Kent J. McDonald Kent specialises in successfully applying pragmatic approaches to strategic planning and coaching business analysts and project managers. His more than 15 years of experience include working in business analysis and planning, project management, and product development in a variety of industries including financial services, health insurance, performance marketing, human services, non profit and automotive. He is a Program Manager at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance who insure or pay health benefit claims for more than 2 million members in Iowa and South Dakota. Kent co-founded the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). He chaired the Central Iowa Business Analyst Development Day 2009 and was a producer for the Customer and Business Value track at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto and a reviewer for the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago. Kent is co-author of Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility, a book that brings together immediately usable frameworks and step-by-step processes that help organisations deliver business value and build competitive advantage. Kent will present the keynote Strategically Speaking: Why Are We Doing This Again?and the workshop Is It Worth It: Using a Business Value Model to Guide Decisions in Wellington and Sydney. |
| Steve Adolph Steve is an Agile Coach with Rally Software where he pursues his passion for helping organisations get the job done. Steve has been creating and managing software development projects long enough to remember Fortran and OS/MVT JCL. His professional career ranges over many exciting and critical projects including designing call processing software for digital exchanges, design and development of leading edge network management systems, railway signalling and telecom billing. Prior to his recent move to Rally Software, Steve founded the pragmatic software engineering solutions provider, WSA Consulting, Vancouver. His areas of interest include use cases, requirements, software project management, product management, organisational behaviour, software architecture, patterns and software methodologies. Steve Is the author of numerous articles on software development and is co-author of the book "Patterns for Effective Use Cases". He is an expert when it comes to teaching others about business modelling, requirements analysis, software architecture and design. He is active in the Agile community, is the co-founder of Agile Vancouver and was a track producer for the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago. Steve will present the Sydney pre-conference one-day workshop The Agile Business Analyst, the conference keynote Agile Grows Up and the conference workshop Keeping Your Neck: Product Owner Success Strategies in both Wellington and Sydney. |
| Nigel Dalton For Nigel, the Agile road to Damascus was Flight QF73 to San Francisco in early 2000. Fleeing the Y2K-obsessed development organisation at AXA Australia for the promise of Po Bronson's Nudist on the Late Shift, he read XP Explained on the plane, and never looked back. Agile software development was a key part of the success of that start-up (ePredix, later bought by Previsor). Use of the methodology spread to product development and client implementations, with varying levels of success. In 2007, Nigel joined Lonely Planet. In the wreckage of a 24 month ERP/ CMS/ Web project delivery (so waterfall the program reviews were known as the Nuremberg Trials), the seeds of an Agile IT organisation, coupled with an ITIL focused operations team were planted. Now under BBC Worldwide ownership, Agile is a well ingrained habit, with new ventures into book product development using Scrum being explored. A truly engaging presenter with plenty of stories that clearly demonstrate the transforming nature of Agile for the business and analysts, Nigel will deliver a not-to-be-missed dinner keynote in Wellington. |
| Shane Hastie Shane's role at Software Education is that of Chief Knowledge Engineer where he provides training and consultancy in business systems analysis, requirements engineering, software project management, software testing and design techniques using traditional, Object Oriented and Agile methodologies. With over 25 years experience in software development in real-world environments, Shane has worked on a diverse range of projects which have allowed him to design and build systems in the finance, agriculture, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, security and aviation industries. The systems these projects have developed cover a similarly impressive variety - from a pharmaceutical drug dissolution analysis sytem to an airline revenue management system which was sold to 12 airlines throughout Africa. Shane's wealth of experience implementing complex systems in the real world enables him to bring great value to the training courses he delivers for Software Education, and the consultancy services he offers to Software Education's customers. Shane has a Masters degree in Information Management (MIM), is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), is ISTQB Foundation certified (CTFL), and is also a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) and a Qualified Business Analysis Professional (QBAP). Shane was nominated for the inaugural NZ “BA of the Year” award in 2009 in a competition run by Computerworld and RedVespa. Shane is a member of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA™), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Agile Alliance. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, and a trained personal development coach. Shane is currently contributing to the IIBA™ BABOK™ Agile-extension. In Wellington and Sydney Shane will present the workshop session Writing Good User Stories: The Key to Defining Agile Requirements. |
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We all look forward to seeing you at SDC 2011 in Wellington and Sydney.
Fees and Packages details are at this page.
