Andreas Wintersteiger
Andreas is an agile coach and trainer with over 20 years of experience in software development in big international corporations and small startups. He has worked as a project manager or project lead since 1995 and still keeps developing on his own. He received a MSc and a PhD from JKU Linz, Austria and is very passionate about developing software.

Andreas started working with agile in 2001, focused on (then called) lightweight methods, especially XP and related practices. He practices test driven development and continuous deployment. He helps software developers and organisations in transitioning to agile, establishing processes and tools, such as build and test automation, continuous integration etc. He has been involved in many large Scrum implementation projects since 2006.

Alan Atlas has been in high tech since 1980, first as a hardware engineer at Bell Laboratories, then as a UNIX kernel hacker at MASSCOMP, and finally as a technical manager at various levels at a number of different software companies. Over the years, he has twice managed development teams whose products have won industry awards. As a Development Manager at Amazon.com, Alan managed the development and release of Amazon S3, a web service that offers Internet-connected storage for web applications of all kinds. The S3 team adopted Scrum for their project, and this became a career-changing experience for Alan, who followed his CSM with CSP, CSC, and CST certifications. Alan became the first Amazon Scrum Trainer/Coach.He left Amazon to pursue Agile Training and Coaching fulltime with Rally Software and after a few years, returned to product development at Scanbuy, Inc. to use his Agile knowledge and experience to create a winning engineering organization.

Jeff McKenna has been involved in software development for over 45 years and has been actively participating in the creation and delivery of agile software development since 1987. He has been involved in all areas of software product development from programming, system design and architecture to project management, testing, sales and marketing. Since the late 1980s Jeff has focused on the process side of development and along with Jeff Sutherland and John Scumniotales at Easel corporation in 1993 created the Scrum methodology of agile software development and started the very first Scrum team.

Jeff has worked extensively with object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications and was the Chair of OOPSLA in 1994 which helped to incubate and increase adoption of several related disciplines including agile software development. Working with IBM, Cigna, ObjectShare, Easel Corp, Millennium Pharmaceutical and the US Air force, Jeff provided expertise in architecture, design and implementation for their first Smalltalk based object-oriented projects.

Peter Borsella is the founder of Winnow Management Corporation, based in Parkland, Florida. Peter is an IT professional with over 25 years of experience in application development and IT leadership. He is also a Project Management Professional (certified by the PMI) and a Certified ScrumMaster Trainer (certified by the Scrum Alliance). His ability to contribute across a wide range of environments has taken him to companies such as First Data Corporation and eFunds Corporation and outside the United States to India, Israel, and Hungary.

Peter is adept in administering all aspects of project management, as well as providing authentic leadership to create effective teams. An active and contributing member to both the PMI and the Scrum Alliance, Peter’s speaking engagements focus on bridging the gap between traditional Project Management and Agile Project Management. His goal is to help others understand how to get the best return from any project by achieving higher levels of software quality, increased customer satisfaction, and cohesive teams that enjoy increased productivity.

Peter Measey is a Director and co-Founder of RADTAC. He has managed and contributed to the implementation of some of the largest Agile Project and Delivery Management transformations in the UK and worldwide. He also works worldwide providing agile coaching and training and has solid experience of enabling agile within different cultures having worked in the United States, China, India and across Europe.

Peter has over 27 years experience in Information Technology and Process / Busi-ness Change across all traditional and contemporary project delivery and manage-ment methods, and is an expert in their successful introduction, implementation and integration. Peter has been specialising in Agile since 1994, and is a Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified DSDM Trainer, APLN Practitioner and Prince2 Practition-er.

David Hicks is a Founding Director of RADTAC. As an independ-ent consultant in 1997 he was hired by British Airways to man-age the implementation of DSDM as the standard method across their 5,000-strong IT organisation. He joined the Agile Alliance as a Founder member in 2002 and have been doing Agile consulting, training and coaching in a whole range of different contexts ever since, using the full range of Agile approach-es including Scrum, XP, Lean, DSDM and the Open/Agile Unified Process. He is a regular speaker on the Agile conference circuit and hold the following Agile qualifi-cations: Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified DSDM Agile Trainer, Certified Scrum Practitioner, Certified DSDM Agile Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Agile Leadership Practitioner.