Ivar Jacobson
Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, aspect-oriented software development, modern business engineering, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process. His latest contribution to the software industry is a formal practice concept that promotes practices as the ‘first-class citizens’ of software development and views process simply as a composition of practices. He is the principal author of six influential and best-selling books. He is a keynote speaker at many large conferences around the world and has trained several process improvement consultants.
Kurt Bittner
Kurt is Principal Consultant with Ivar Jacobson International, Americas. He has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years in a variety of roles including developer, team leader, architect, project manager and business leader. He has led agile projects, run a large division of a software development company, survived and thrived in several start-ups, run an acquisition, and worked with clients in a variety of industries including aerospace, finance, energy and electronics. He was a key contributor to the early development of the Rational Unified Process as well as, more recently, IBM's Jazz project. His experience includes significant work in banking and finance, relational database system design and architecting, and consulting and mentoring a wide variety of clients on software development improvement strategies and approaches. He is the co-author of "Use Case Modeling", "Managing Iterative Software Development Projects" and "The Economics of Iterative Software Development".
Ian Spence
Ian is CTO at Ivar Jacobson International where he specializes in large-scale agile adoptions and practice-based organizational change. An experienced agile coach he has worked with 100s of projects to introduce iterative and agile practices, working with development teams ranging from 5 – 150 people. He has also led numerous successful, large-scale transformation projects in fields as diverse as government, telecommunications, finance, and internet start-ups, working with development organization of 5 – 5,000 people. His current interests are agile for large projects, agile out-sourcing, and driving sustainable change with agile measurements.
He is also the co-author of two influential software development books, "Use Case Modeling" and "Managing Iterative Software Development Projects", and the team lead for the development of the SEMAT kernel.
Pan-Wei Ng
Dr. Pan-Wei Ng has multiple roles within Ivar Jacobson International. As a member of the Technology Office, Pan-Wei defines best practices in architecture, use cases, iterative development, business modeling, active software and aspects. He develops materials for some of these best practices and conducts research in other best practice areas. Pan-Wei also actively works on customer accounts to enable companies and project teams to adopt these best practices quickly and safely. Pan-Wei works alongside practitioners and ensures that the best practices developed are both relevant and practical.