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Joshua Kerievsky is founder of Industrial Logic , Inc., an early pioneer and expert in Extreme Programming (XP), author of the best-selling, Jolt Cola Award-winning book Refactoring to Patterns, thought leader behind Industrial XP, a state-of-the-art synthesis of XP and Agile Project Management and an innovator of Agile eLearning, which helps organizations “Scale Agility Faster.” Joshua has over 20 years of experience in software development and loves coaching agile project communities, helping executives understand and manage technical debt, leading excellent workshops, and building software products (because it enables him to “walk the agile talk” as an entrepreneur, manager, customer and programmer).
Gil Broza has been with Industrial Logic since 2004, coaching and training organizations in Industrial XP. Gil has worked with companies of virtually every size and industry and been involved in all aspects of the transition life cycle. He has presented papers at Agile2005 and XP/Agile Universe 2004. Prior to joining Industrial Logic, Gil was an R&D manager, team leader and developer for 12 years, successfully applying Agile methods since 2001. His experience ranges from small to large-scale projects, versions 1 and later, and crosses such domains as financial systems, bioinformatics, conversational agents, network infrastructure, and internet content delivery. Gil has an M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; he lives in Toronto, Canada, where he keeps himself otherwise occupied discovering wild life — raising twins.
Mike Hill has been a professional programmer for twenty-six years. For the last eight years he has focused his efforts as a trainer, coach, and team lead on XP and IXP software projects and transitions. Mike is a well-known leader in the Agile community and is a regular speaker at related industry events. Mike has extensive experience with many modern object-oriented languages and design methods. His professional experiences include shrink-wrapped software, in-house IT projects, web development (including J2EE), and embedded applications. Mike lives near the small, but lively Anarchy Creek in Virginia.
Alan Harriman is a seasoned professional programmer and agile coach. For the past six years, Alan has served in developer-coach roles leading agile projects and transitions ranging from enterprise applications to web-based commerce across a variety of domains. He is well versed in modern development languages and agile practices, including Test-driven Development and Emergent Design for applications and databases. Alan is a founding member of the Silicon Valley Patterns Group and enjoys teaching on patterns and other technical topics. When not programming or coaching, Alan can often be found out on the cross-country ski trails or paddling into the surf lineup.
Dave Rooney has been developing software professionally since 1988, and has used Extreme Programming with great success since 2000 as a consultant for Canadian public sector organizations. He was initially drawn to XP by its focus on quality and delivering business value to the Customer, and quickly overcame the typical misconceptions. Dave is a co-founder of the Ottawa (Canada) XP Group, and continues to be an active writer, speaker and advocate of agile methods in Canada. When not fighting to keep the cat off his keyboard while working, he enjoys the outdoors, running and is almost as passionate about software as he is about flying!
Brian Foote has been programming professionally since the dawn of the Carter Administration, often in the service of academic researchers of various stripes. His protracted association with the academy has enabled him to dabble extensively in research while being paid to develop real software. His interests include objects, programming, software architecture, programming language design, reflection, meta-level architecture, patterns, refactoring, frameworks, reuse, and software devolution. His exposure to Smalltalk during his impressionable formative years indelibly shaped his attitudes towards software architecture and design. Brian is a long-time member of the object-oriented programming community, and indeed, is one of five people to have attended every OOPSLA conference to-date. He has been active in the patterns community as well, and helped to edit Pattern Languages of Program Design, Volume 4. He has been teaching design patterns since sometime during the last century. His hobbies include playing the guitar and programming language research. He lives in Urbana, Illinois.
Keith Ray has been a professional programmer since the mid-1980's shipping shrink-wrapped and other software on Macintosh, Windows and Unix platforms using C++, Objective-C and Java. In recent years, he has concentrated on mastering Design Patterns, Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Development, as well as agile team-work practices. Keith enjoys working side-by-side with individuals to improve their refactoring and test-driven development skills. He is passionate about improving code quality and software ease-of-use, while pragmatic about delivering products on-time. Keith has published articles about XP and Refactoring; blogs on Agile and other topics, and lives near Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Max Baumann has been programmer, coach, and trainer on small and large scale Traditional, Agile, and XP projects over the past ten years. Max is a capable developer who brings theory to practice by working side-by-side with teams to improve their collaboration, refactoring, test-driven development, and storytest-driven development skills. He regularly shares his expertise with organizations and conferences as a trainer and speaker. He is committed to refining his craft, and is passionate about making software development enjoyable for everyone from customers and programmers to the end users. In his spare time he can be found enjoying the outdoors, cooking and playing the mandolin.
Benny Sadeh is an experienced XP coach, programmer, and consultant since 1987. Benny has utilized Object Oriented technology since the mid 90s, and has been actively applying and harvesting Patterns ever since, while perfecting his software craft. His experience ranges from small to large-scale projects, and crosses many domains including the Insurance, Financial, Telecommunications, CadCam, Pharmaceutical, and Travel industries. Benny divides his time between development, coaching, continuous learning, and Aikido.

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III asks the questions technology tries to answer. Exploiting his four decades of systems experience (and a degree in Dramatic Art), he coaches teams through strategic planning, chartering, essence modeling, tough decisions, retrospecting and having great fun doing good work. His company, Systemodels, teaches and consults with projects and teams across North America, and has worked with clients in most primary sectors of the economy. III is a master facilitator and has worked with Industrial Logic since 1997. Prior, III was a senior staff consultant with Yourdon, Inc and senior research analyst with Bank of America. For enjoyment and spiritual amusement, III travels North America in his 1970 VW Bus (with over half a million miles).
Diana Larsen
Diana Larsen is a senior organizational development and change management consultant who shares her time between Industrial Logic and FutureWorks Consulting. Diana works with clients in the software industry to create and maintain company culture and performance, in other words, building workplaces that develop and dignify people while achieving business results. Her focus on large and small changes in organization culture, structure and leadership has served clients through startups, transitions, expansions and alliances. A specialist in the "I" of Industrial XP, Diana serves as a coach, consultant and facilitator to senior and middle managers, development teams and others in the project community. She conducts readiness assessments and facilitates processes (including project chartering and retrospectives) that support and sustain change initiatives, attain effective team performance and retain organizational learning. Diana has special expertise in using appreciative inquiry approaches, Open Space Technology and other large group processes. She is a frequent speaker at XP/Agile conferences, authors articles on XP and organizational change, co-founded the Women's Center for Applied Leadership and serves as a board member of the Earth and Spirit Council.
SteveHayes, an experienced XP coach, programmer and consultant (since 1987). Since the late 1990s, Steve was XP coach and programmer for several financial systems at Goldman Sachs. He has worked closely with Kent Beck and teaches Industrial Logic's XP workshops in Australia and New Zealand.
Ken Auer is President of RoleModel Software, Inc. which he founded in 1997. He has been active in the development of object oriented software since 1985 and has been a leading player in a large variety of software systems and frameworks, many which have been very long-lived. Though he has spent the majority of this time applying his craft, he has also played a variety of management and mentoring roles. He is not only considered a Master Software Craftsman by his team members and clients, but also recognized as a leader in the object technology community. Some of the wisdom of this pioneer in the application of Extreme Programming has been captured in the book "Extreme Programming Applied: Playing To Win" which he co-authored with Roy Miller.
Russ Rufer has been building software systems for 15 years. His wide ranging experience includes desktop applications, embedded firmware, telecommunications, networking, satellite simulation, and productivity tools. Russ leads weekly meetings of the Silicon Valley Patterns Group, which he founded in 1998 and regularly organizes pre-publication review teams to provide feedback on new literature from the software patterns and agile development communities. Russ has worked with Industrial Logic for several years. He divides his time between pure development, coaching and leading workshops on Extreme Programming, Testing, Refactoring and Patterns.
Tracy Bialik Tracy Bialik, who has two decades of software development experience, is a lead agile development coach and programmer. Whether building embedded devices to help children learn while they play, or evolving a large satellite simulation framework, Tracy applies both her development and leadership skills to every project. Tracy is a founding and active member of the Silicon Valley Patterns Group. She teaches The Design Patterns Workshop and The Testing & Refactoring Workshop.


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