Open Agile Romania

Who will I meet and who is speaking?

Agile practitioners and coaches, software developers, managers and entrepreneurs from all over the world will meet at the first Romanian Agile event. This time is more than Agile: here is the eLiberatica speakers list. We are also discussing with other prestigious and experienced members of Agile and Scrum Alliance to share their experience in the Agile Romanian community. As soon as they confirm, we will list them below.

Keynote speaker:  Ken Schwaber - http://www.controlchaos.com/ (video call)

Ken Schwaber co-developed the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990s to help organizations struggling with complex development projects. One of the signatories to the Agile Manifesto in 2001, he subsequently founded the AgileAlliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of Agile software. He then founded the ScrumAlliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding the understanding of Scrum.

A 30-year veteran of the software development industry (from bottle washer to boss), he has written three books about Scrum: Agile Software Development with Scrum, Agile Project Management with Scrum, and The Enterprise and Scrum.

Speakers (in alphabetical order):

Appelo, Jurgen - Netherlands
http://www.noop.nl/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jurgenappelo

Jurgen is CIO – Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany, rated (a while ago) as the #1 fastest growing technology company in The Netherlands. He leads a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, business consultants, quality managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.

He is primarily interested in software engineering, quality improvement and complexity theory, from a manager’s perspective. He is a writer, having published a number of papers and articles in several magazines, like Dr. Dobb’s, Software Quality Professional, Methods & Tools, The Software Practitioner, StickyMinds, Software Development Network, Computable and Automatisering Gids.

He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at seminars and conferences about agile software development, project management, process improvement, and development management. However, sometimes he puts all writing, speaking and managing aside to do some intensive programming  or to spend time on his ever-growing collection of science fiction and fantasy literature.

Gliga, Razvan – Romania
IT Architect at IBM Romania

Razvan is IT Architect at IBM Romania, having a broad experience in software development projects, started on early 90′s. He worked on more than 15 software development projects, ranged from COTS, national systems, enterprise systems and embedded, having different roles, including software developer, project manager, solution architect and technical team leader. In his activity he used Scrum, RUP and other software development processes and methodologies, and also helped different organizations to embrace Scrum, or to adapt internal software development methodologies.

Haines, Corey – USA
http://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyhaines
http://www.coreyhaines.com

Corey is currently a freelance developer and journeyman, traveling around to pair-program with other developers. He is an active member in the software craftsmanship movement, focusing his attention on post-apprenticeship activities. He started programming in the early 80′s by cheating at video games (they weren’t compiled back then) and fell in love with development as a teenager. He currently specializes in Ruby, but will pair in just about any language you want.

Negrean, Ovidiu – Romania
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ovidiunegrean
http://www.negrean.ro/

Ovidiu, owner of www.Lucrez.in/IT, is a young software developer, online entrepreneur and new marketing enthusiastic. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and is now also studying Business Management at Babes Bolyai University in Cluj.

Ovidiu gained experience developing software for more than 6 years in companies from Cluj Napoca where he worked on the development of different enterprise solutions. He created a CRM software for dental practices – www.DentalPerform.ro. At the beginning of 2009, driven by a personal vision of how the industry will evolve, by using Agile methods of work he launched www.Lucrez.in/IT the first business social network for Romanian IT professionals and IT companies, recognizing the need for better communication between the players of the IT industry.

Pasoi, Mircea & Giurgea, Mihnea – Romania
Software Engineers at uberVU – http://www.ubervu.com/

Mircea, co-founder at balaur.ro, vicepresident and co-Founder at infoarena.ro, is working Scrum in UberVU team. In summer of 2008 he worked as Software Engineer Intern at Google and in summer of 2007 he worked as Software Developer Intern at Microsoft.

He is co-author at Fundamentele programarii – Programming manual for high-school. In the last few years he gained multiple awards, two of them being Gold Medal at International Informatics Olympics, Merida (2006), Mexico and Silver Medal at International Informatics Olympics, Nowy Sacz, Polonia (2005).

Mihnea, studying Informatics at University Bucharest, is working Agile/Scrum in UberVU team. In summer of 2008 he worked as Software Engineer Intern at Google Mountain View. During high-school and University he participated in many programming contests. When having time, he participates in English-debate contests throughout Europe.

Parvu, Lucian – Romania
Project Manager at Luxoft Romania (former ITC Networks)

Lucian is Project Manager at Luxoft Romania (former ITC Networks). He has more than eight years of experience in Software Development focused on Networking and Telecom.

He discovered Scrum three years ago when he switched from a Waterfall approach to Agile. He faced the cultural changes that are involved in such a transition, the typical answer “This won’t work in our case” being history. Now Scrum feels so natural and nobody wants to go back to Waterfall.

Lucian has experience with implementing Scrum in large distributed teams, with more than 30 Engineers in three countries, where communication is the key factor. He created tools for “Release Tracking” and “Quality Metrics” that helped everybody to “Feel the Projects”, including Engineers, Product Managers and Senior Management team.

Hosts:

Diaconu, Maria – Romania
Chair & Event Coordinator
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mariadiaconu

Maria is owner of Mosaic Works, founder and coordinator of the Romanian Agile community Agile Works Romania. From Developer to CSM and Agile/Scrum coach, she is supporting quality software, software craftsmanship and people involved in their creation.