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 Technology Director at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering which is affiliated with the University of Maryland College Park. Dr. Lindvall has served as a subject matter expert on NASA’s Space Network project and has reviewed and helped improve large numbers of requirements and other documents. He is one of the inventors of the Fraunhofer’s software engineering tools and methods including requirements engineering. These tools and methods have bee...
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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 deve...
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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 co-founder, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Namcook Analytics LLC. Namcook Analytics builds patent-pending advanced risk, quality, and cost estimation tools. The web site is www.Namcook.com . Until co-founding Namcook Analytics LLC in 2011 he was the president of Capers Jones & Associates LLC from 2000 through 2011. He is also the founder and former chairman of Software Productivity Research LLC (SPR). He holds the title of Chief Scientist Emeritus at SPR. Ca...
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