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Cockburn
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Cooperate to Win |


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Alistair Cockburn |
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The
Jolt-Award winning author of Writing Effective Use Cases, Alistair has over
20 years of experience, leading projects in hardware, software, research, and
application systems. He is an internationally recognized expert on
object-oriented software development, and appreciated as a collaboration
facilitator. One of the leaders of the "agile" movement, Alistair
has also authored Agile Software Development and Surviving Object Oriented
Projects. |
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E-mail:
acockburn@cockburnandassociates.com |
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E-mail:
DrDan@netobjectives.com |
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Andy Kraus |
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A Renaissance guy, trained as a classical
pianist, Andy brings an artist's passion, discipline and intensity to his
work with the craft of software development as well as facilitating software
developers, their managers, processes and organizations . He brings twenty
years of experience in the trenches to his current work as mentor, coach,
consultant and architect. He is an OO veteran, a graduate of the famed
Knowledge Systems Corporations Smalltalk Apprentice Program in 1992. Formerly
a successful manager of commercial OO projects for Lockheed Martin, Andy has
taught courses on development methodologies for IBM Corporation and is the
author of "Use Case Blue", cited in Alistair Cockburn's Writing
Effective Use Cases. Andy focuses on maximizing results by optimizing the
"essential interfaces" between people, processes and software.
Andy's most recent interest is in teaching people Neuro Linguistic
Programming fundamentals with a view towards facilitating team relationships.
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E-mail:
akraus@cockburnandassociates.com |
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Pete McBreen |
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Pete is an independent consultant who
actually enjoys writing and delivering software. Despite spending a lot of
time writing, teaching and mentoring, he goes out of his way to ensure that
he does hands-on coding on a live project every year. Pete specializes in
finding creative solutions to problems that software developers face. After
many years of working on formal and informal process improvement initiatives,
he took a sideways look at the problem and realized, "Software
development is meant to be fun. If it isn't, the process is wrong." Pete
lives in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada and has no plans to move back to a big
city. |
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E-mail:
pmcbreen@cockburnandassociates.com |


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Tom Coll |
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Tom is an expert at facilitating
requirements and use case workshops for software development projects.
As an independent consultant, he works with project teams to help them
explore requirements, define their project scope and shape their development
process. Tom is a pioneer in using the High Quality Customer and
User Requirements approach that ensures a project’s requirements tie back to
a set of unambiguous business objectives. Based on his client’s
needs, Tom tailors his approach to fit the particular situation – this
may include using other modern software analysis and design techniques such
as Business Process Modeling, Use Case Modeling and Logical Data Modeling. |
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E-mail:
tcoll@cockburnandassociates.com |

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Douglas E. Shimp has 15 years experience in
the technology field. He has played all roles in software development
(developer, QA, Analyst, Manager, Leader etc) and has established himself as
a leader in the field. Most recently Doug worked in the finance industry as a
leader for the management and development of core finance technology. The
finance company was a child for a much larger parent that needed an emergent
business/technology trend setter to push its IT systems. For more information
visit www.3Back.com. |
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E-mail:
dshimp@cockburnandassociates.com |
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Doug Shimp |