Speakers

These were the speakers signed for the Øresund Agile 2010.

Our deepest thanks for your willingness to contribute!

Lyssa Adkins
Lyssa Adkins is an experienced Agile Coach, who came to agile as a project leader with more than fifteen years of project management success. As a large-scale program manager and director of Project Management Offices turned agile, coach and trainer, she has lived it herself. This makes her uniquely able to help others move from their existing world to the agile world. Read more …
Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen Appelo is a writer, speaker, developer, entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy. His current occupation is CIO at ISM eCompany. As a manager, Jurgen has experience in leading a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, quality managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally. Read more …
Roger Leaton
Roger Leaton is an Agile Advocate encouraging teams to adopt agile methods for the BT IT organisation and across the wider BT business. Since 2004 Roger has enjoyed the challenge of working with colleagues to describe and extend the agile approach for large and traditional organisations and he emphasises both the business and people benefits of agile. Read more …
Frode Odegard
Frode Odegard is the Founder and CEO of the Lean Software Institute. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and trusted advisor to high-tech executives. Organizations he has helped include Sony Electronics Inc., Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Cardinal Health, Candle, Conexant Systems, Mindspeed, and Plantronics. Read more …
Kai Petersen
Kai Peterson is an industrial PhD student at Ericsson AB and Blekinge Institute of Technology, and will defend his thesis titled “Implementing Lean and Agile Software Development in Industry” in September this year. His current research interests are lean and agile software development, empirical software engineering, software process improvement, and software measurement. Read more …
Roman Pichler
Roman Pichler is a leading Scrum expert and Certified Scrum Trainer. He is the author of a best selling Scrum Book. His new book Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love is the product owner’s guide to develop successful products with Scrum. He has nearly ten years experience in helping companies transition to agile, and has guided Scrum roll-outs in several companies. Read more …
Linda Rising
Linda Rising has authored four books and numerous articles and is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile development, and the change process. She is an independent consultant with a background including university teaching and software development in a number of different domains. Read more …
Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman helps people solve problems and seize opportunities. She consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management. She’s the author of several books. Read more …
Anders Sixtensson
Anders Sixtensson has over 20 years of experience of working with different aspects of software development, including everything from leadership to how individual team members work. A recurring theme has been to create flow and using simple solutions from the world of logistics to increase the delivery of customer value with shorter lead times than before. Read more …
Dan-Magnus Svensson
Dan-Magnus Svensson is the driver of an agile change program at the Ericsson development unit Revenue Management located in Karlskrona, Chennai, and Delhi. He has 19 years of experience at Ericsson from testing, project management, line management and operational development. Read more …
Jason Tanner
Jason Tanner is President of Enthiosys Inc. He joined Enthiosys as a Senior Consultant in 2008 and has over 18 years of professional experience with software companies, a telecommunications company and the Marine Corps. His expertise spans Agile software product management, product marketing, business planning, partner management, project management and leadership. Read more …
Lars Thorup
Lars Thorup was among the first in Denmark to use eXtreme Programming back in 2000. His is founder of major Danish agile consultant company BestBrains, started in 2001, currently at 10 people. Lars is a frequent speaker at Danish and international conferences. Currently he is focused on creating mutual benefit contracts for delivering software solutions to customers. Read more …
Christian Vindinge Rasmusen
Christian Vindinge Rasmusen is currently working as a
Project & Portfolio Manager at Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, as an IT project evaluator at the European Commission in Brussels, and as mentor at Niels Brock Elite College in Copenhagen.
Christian holds a Msc. in Business Administration, Economics and Information Technology. Read more …