Kent Beck is the Founder and Director of Three Rivers Institute (TRI). His career has combined the practice of software development with reflection, innovation, and communication. His contributions to software development include patterns for software, the rediscovery of test-first programming, the xUnit family of developer testing tools, and Extreme Programming. He currently divides his time between writing, programming, and coaching. Beck is the author/co-author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2nd Edition, Contributing to Eclipse, Test-Driven Development: By Example, Planning Extreme Programming, The Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns, and the JUnit Pocket Guide.Learn more about Kent.
Thomas Costello, CEO of UpStreme, currently provides technical and business consulting to corporate CXOs, boards of directors, venture capital firms, angels, and investment bankers in the evaluation, planning, and implementation of technologies to meet strategic and tactical business needs. Mr. Costello has advised both private and public sector organizations ranging from The U.S. Department of State and established top Fortune 500 organizations to early-stage/pre-funded startups.
Mr. Costello's 20 year career has spanned the universe of computing challenges and solutions. He has formerly held positions with such firms as Cambridge Technology Partners as Director of IT Strategy & Planning, CoreTech Consulting Group as Director of Management Services, U.S. Healthcare as Director of Development, AssetTRADE as both COO and CTO, the QVC Television Network, Shared Medical Systems, and GMIS.
Tom DeMarco is a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, on the Editorial Board of Cutter IT Journal, and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Agile Software Development & Project Management and Enterprise Risk Management & Governance practices. He was the winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing" and the 1999 Wayne Stevens Prize for "contribution to software methods." His best-selling books include The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management and Slack: Getting Beyond Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency.
James Gaskin writes books (15 so far), articles and jokes about technology and real life from his home office in the Dallas area. Gaskin has been helping small and medium sized businesses use technology intelligently since 1986. He can be reached at james.gaskin@itworld.com. See more by James Gaskin.
Arik Johnson is founder and managing director of Recon Competitive Intelligence at Aurora WDC, where he advises business leaders on how to better understand their business rivals and the competitive dynamics among enterprises in the marketplace. He also writes a syndicated column on competitive intelligence issues.
Jeff Kaplan is founder and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is a contributing columnist for Mass High Tech Journal, NetworkWorld, Business Communications Review, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, and Services News on a range of utility computing-related topics, including network out-tasking versus outsourcing strategies, network operations management, service level management (SLM), and ROI versus TCO strategies. He can be reached at jkaplan@thinkstrategies.com.
Dr. Phillip Laplante is Associate Professor of Software Engineering at Penn State University and the founder and director of the CIO Institute, a three-year old community of practice for CIOs in the Greater Philadelphia Metro Area. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of the Eastern Technology Council, a business development organization for the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. Prior to coming to Penn State he was a senior academic administrator at several other Colleges and Universities.
In addition to his academic career, Dr. Laplante spent almost eight years as a software engineer, project manager, and director of a software consulting firm. He has authored or edited 20 books and more than 140 other papers, articles and is a highly sought after mentor and coach for CEOs and CIOs.
Thornton May is Futurist, Executive Director and Dean of the IT Leadership Academy. His extensive experience researching and consulting on the role and behaviors of Boards of Directors and "C" level executives in creating value with information technology has won him an unquestioned place on the short list of serious thinkers on this topic. Thornton combines a scholar's patience for empirical research, a stand-up comic's capacity for pattern recognition and a second-to-none gift for storytelling to the information technology management problems facing executives.
Sean McGrath is CTO of Propylon. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on XML and related standards. He served as an invited expert to the W3C's Expert Group that defined XML in 1998. He is the author of three books on markup languages published by Prentice Hall. Visit his site at: blogspot.com. See more by Sean McGrath.
Bob Metcalfe is the inventor of Ethernet in 1973, a consulting associate professor at Stanford University, founder of 3Com Computer Corp. in 1979, creator of Metcalfe's Law, CEO of IDG's InfoWorld Publishing Co. (a sister company to Computerworld) from 1992 to 1995, and an InfoWorld columnist and industry pundit. Metcalfe is also the author of three books and the winner of numerous awards, among them the Grace Murray Hopper Award and the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Richard Scannell s Co-founder and Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., a storage services and consulting company. Richard consults with executives and CIOs at Fortune 500 companies in the financial services, insurance, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries to develop storage strategies that meet corporate and regulatory goals for the preservation and availability of vital business data.
John Sullivan leads information technology projects for internal systems at a Fortune 1000 company, and serves as the principal client liaison with business users on all systems projects. He is a Contributing Editor to PMNET, the official magazine of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and writes the "Career Portfolio" column which focuses on managing and advancing your career.
Bruce Taylor is principal of Performance Communications, an independent research journalism provider specializing in business process management and performance improvement. He has written and published extensively for over 25 years on information technology and business topics. His primary areas of focus are on content and knowledge management, work and business process management and performance improvement, and business and competitive intelligence. Most recently he has been looking at the relationship of emotional intelligence (EIQ) to human and organizational performance. Reach him at btaylorconsults@aol.com
Dr. David Weinberger is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and has contributed to NPR's All Things Considered and the Harvard Business Review, among many other publications. He publishes an influential technology newsletter and a daily weblog, called JOHO, the Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization.
Tom Welsh is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture Practice, Editor of Cutter Consortium's monthly Web Services Strategies, and a regular contributor to the its Advisory Service. He is an independent consultant and analyst specializing in middleware, object technology, and software engineering. At Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Welsh was a hardware technician, software support specialist, corporate software developer, and senior technology consultant, before taking on the task of marketing Digital's object-oriented software products in the UK. In his role as a principal analyst at ComputerWire, Mr. Welsh has been a leading contributor to Client/Server Tools Bulletin, Internet Tools Bulletin and Object-Oriented Tools Bulletin. He has written many reports and papers, as well as chairing and speaking at conferences and seminars. Since 1992, Mr. Welsh has closely followed the work of the Object Management Group and its specifications, including CORBA, UML, XMI and CWM. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.
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