Joe Burns has over 20 years experience developing and implementing products and services for the quality assurance industry. He is an entrepreneur and enjoys building world class QA solutions. He has successfully founded and developed testing products which are integrated with companies like IBM, TIBCO, and webMethods. He is one of only a handful of people that developed a startup product that is now being commercially sold all over the world. This product is currently on the Gartner's Magic Qua...
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Herb Krasner is a senior faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin , and the Director of the Software Engineering Industry Affiliates Program. He is also a successful software excellence consultant. His personal mission, spanning several decades, has been to enable the development of superior software, and to stamp out poor quality software, wherever found. He is best known for his leading edge work on modeling the costs of software quality, reporting the ROI data for software process ...
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Dr. Mikael Lindvall is the Director of the Software Architecture and Embedded Systems Division at Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering. Dr. Lindvall is one of the inventors of the FAST approach and is focusing on testing of Web-based systems. Dr. Lindvall has also contributed to the invention of tools and methods for architectural analysis that have been applied to several NASA systems, including his method for determining development and testing risk for NASA's Space Network.
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Nathan Petschenik is Chief Consultant for STS, an IT consulting firm specializing in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance. He leads many of the company's engagements. His broad and deep technical and management consulting background has helped clients in all of STS's business segments: telecommunications, life sciences, financial services, and government. Nathan's career in System Testing leadership has also included significant experience as a software developer, software devel...
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Mr. Raymond is a visionary innovator in defining and delivering consulting solutions to strategically control business risk via innovation in software quality assurance and testing. Randy's approach includes Six Sigma techniques and includes process improvements resulting in cost reduction and harmonization of activities across business units, departments, initiatives, and projects. The goal of these process improvements is to restore value and competitiveness to underperforming business units o...
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Capers Jones is Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR) . Mr. Jones is the designer of several software cost and software quality estimation tools including SPQR/20™, the first commercial software estimating tool to use function points as the basis for sizing software source code, specifications and user documents. He is also an international consultant on software management topics, a speaker, a seminar leader, and an author. As an author, Mr. Jones has written 12 books...
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