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.
Kurt Bittner
Kurt is Chief Technology Officer of 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 Chief Scientist at Ivar Jacobson International where he specializes in the agile application of the Unified Process. He is a certified RUP practitioner, ScrumMaster and an experience coach having worked with 100s of projects to introduce iterative and agile techniques. He has over 20 years experience in the software industry, covering the complete development lifecycle, including requirements capture, architecture, analysis, design, implementation and project management. His specialty subjects are iterative project management, agile team working and requirements management with use cases.
In his role as Chief Scientist Ian contributes to the technical direction of Ivar Jacobson International and works with the company’s Technology Office to define the next generation of smart, active, software development practices. He is the project lead and process architect for the development of the Essential Unified Process and the practices it contains.
When he is not working on researching, capturing and defining practices he spends his time assisting companies in the creation and execution of change programs to improve their software development capability. He is co-author of the Addison Wesley books "Use Case Modeling" and "Managing Iterative Software Development Projects".
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.