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Track: Keynote

Wednesday

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Mission-Critical Agility

Whether it is controlling interplanetary spacecraft, managing medical records, or "merely" staying employed, it seems like more of us are facing the pressure of developing mission-critical software.  It's tempting to think that reliability is all that matters, but we're also forced to adapt to constantly advancing technologies, shifting priorities, and relentless competitive pressures.  Is it wise to embrace innovation and take risks when so much is at stake?

Jeff Norris

Dr. Norris leads the org. at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. that is resp. for the software and mission control personnel that command robotic spacecraft including the Mars rovers and more than a dozen other missions to destinations throughout the solar system. Past decade he has applied agile techniques to numerous software projects at NASA for robot control, human-computer interaction, and visualization, earning the NASA SW of the Year Award and the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in research

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Software Development; An invisible process

Software development is mostly an invisible process. How do you improve something that is invisible? How can you collaborate around something that is invisible? In this talk Henrik will bring up real-life examples of the power of visualization to drive collaboration and process improvement, within software development as well as outside.

Henrik Kniberg

Henrik Kniberg is an Agile/Lean coach at Crisp in Stockholm. He enjoys helping companies succeed with both the technical and human sides of software development. During the past 15 years he has been CTO of 3 Swedish IT companies and helped many more get started with Agile and Lean software development.
Henrik is on the Agile Alliance board of directors and works regularly with Mary Poppendieck, Jeff Sutherland, and other thought leaders.

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