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Dave Thomas, Father of OTI, CEO of Bedarra Corporation
Dave Thomas has a wide spectrum of experience in the software industry as an engineer, professor, consultant, architect, executive and investor. Dave is founder and CEO of Bedarra Corporation; which provides virtual CTO and CEO, business mentoring and seed investment to emerging companies. Recently formed Bedarra Research Labs undertakes speculative research on applications of emerging software technologies.
Dave is best known as the founder and past CEO and president of
Object Technology International Inc. (formerly OTI, now IBM OTI Labs)
and led the commercial introduction of object and component technology.
The company is often cited as the ideal model of a software technology
company.
He was also the principal visionary and architect for IBM VisualAge
Smalltalk and Java tools and virtual machines including the initial
work on popular multi-language Eclipse.org IDE. OTI pioneered the use
of virtual machines in embedded systems with Tektronix shipping the
first commercial products in 1988. He was instrumental in the
establishment of IBM's Pervasive computing efforts and in particular
the Java tooling.
Dave is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, and the University Of Queensland and is widely published in the software engineering literature. He is a popular humorous albeit opinionated keynote speaker. Dave remains active in various roles within the technical community including ECOOP, AOSD, Evolve, and Agile Development Conference, Agile/XP Universe and OOPSLA Onward. He is a founding director of the Agile Alliance and most recently a founder of Open Augment Consortium. Dave writes expert columns in Otland Online in Germany, and the Journal Of Object Technology in Switzerland where he also serves on the editorial board.
Software Passion: The Joy of Building Great Software Together
Links:
Personal website: davethomas.net
eclipse.org
agilealliance.org
Presentation: "Mastering Lean Management - Essential Lessons of Software Leadership"
Time:
Monday 14:45 - 15:45
Location:
Rytmisk Sal, Musikhuset
Abstract:
Lean Software provides a foundation continuously improving software development by enabling and supporting the learning and improvement in software teams. For large organizations the transition to Agile is a systemic change which goes far beyond the development teams and demands leadership from members of the executive and management team. There are far too many leaders in our industry and even the most successful organizations are at risk when they leave. Hence it is important that we develop more leaders in both the business and technical ranks of our organizations.
In this talk we discuss how leaders facilitate the change in the broader organization including organization roles and reporting, interaction with development and non development management and executive peers, recruitment and career development, integration with business systems and processes such as finance, portfolio management, sales and marketing. We discuss the metrics which need to be in place for accountability and continuous improvement. We provide concrete examples of how leaders sustain Lean and Agile beyond initial momentum of the transition.
Keywords: Management, Lean, Career, People, Development, Leadership, Mentoring, Large Scale Agile, Product Development
Target Audience: Software executives, managers and professionals who are interested in enabling and sustaining lean high energy software development organizations.
Presentation: "Career.You - Build the Career You Want"
Time:
Tuesday 14:45 - 15:45
Location:
Rytmisk Sal, Musikhuset
Abstract:
Careers seldom just happen! They are emergent and strongly shaped by you as Product Owner of Career.You. Careers require constant refactoring and enhancement. Career Development is an investment in self understanding, in collaboration with others and in quickly accessing opportunities which present themselves. We discuss career patterns an anti-patterns based on our own career experiences. Attendees will leave with simple tools to become more proactive product owners of their own careers and/or mentors for others.
Keywords: Management, Lean, Career, People, Development, Envisioning ...
Target audience: Software professionals who want to have an interesting and rewarding career
Training: "Lean and Agile In the Large - Principles, Practices and Experiences for Large Scale Software Development"
Time:
Friday 13:00 - 16:00
Location:
Trifork: Mødelokale
Abstract:
Lean and Agile practices have made a major positive impact on productivity and quality of life for individuals and development teams.
In this tutorial we focus on the challenges and practices of using Lean and Agile in large development organizations. Large scale software is typically built and maintained by large numbers of geographically distributed developers, uses multiple technologies and tool chains, often building a family of products using one or more platforms. Large scale software must respond to the business need to commit to delivery functionality and dates months ahead. Throughout the tutorial we call on examples from large global organizations that have made the transition to Lean and Agile Development. The small group format of the tutorial encourages participants to discuss their specific challenges.
We introduce new practices in Envisioning, Definition, Planning and Release Engineering (End Game) which compliment the Agile practices used for Development. These practices allow business to gain agility while addressing their needs for on time delivery and governance. We discuss how to integrate best practices Lean Product Engineering while respecting and encouraging the wide adoption of empowering agile practices.
The practices provide proven practical techniques for large scale Agile challenges such as Voice of The Customer: Tangible Requirements and Acceptance Testing; Role of Architecture, Models and Components, Management of Features vs. Components: Planning, Estimating and Resource
Allocation: Dependency Management and Release Management; Scrum of Scrums and Communities of Practice, and Enterprise Development Dashboards and CMM Compliance. We describe the necessary organization structures, roles, artifacts and tooling needed to streamline large scale software construction.
Keywords: Transition, Large Scale, Enterprise Agile, Agile, Lean, Organization Change, Project Management, Process Management, Enterprise Scrum, Lean
Software, Agile Architecture, Agile Design, Metrics, Peopleware
Target Audience: Technical and Business Leaders; IT and Software Executives;, Project, Program and Product Managers/Directors; Agile Coaches, Change Managers, QA Managers/Directors; who are interested in knowing how to implement Lean and Agile in Large Organizations.
