Currently an Agile Coach at Avira, Vasco Duarte is an experienced Product and Project Manager. Having worked in the software industry since 1997, Vasco has also been an Agile practitioner since 2004, he is one of the leaders and catalysts of Agile methods and Agile culture adoption at Avira and previously at Nokia and F-Secure.
Hanno helps companies to dramatically improve performance. Since 2006 he has helped dozens of companies and software teams improve their processes and productivity. Hanno has worked with such industries as telecom, IT, outdoor media, government, non-profit, education, banking, insurance and energy.
Hanno works with clients to determine the desired outcomes, success metrics and value that each project will bring to their organization, then tailor my approach to best improve the condition of my clients and the performance of their organizations.
I love Agile. I love how it can transform dull ineffective projects (and organizations) into exciting value-deliverers. I love how it can return the passion and fun into people's work. But I also recognize how hard it is to do right
Over the last 7 years I've seen many successes and many, well, less successful cases. I've seen organizations both small and large, in Finland and internationally. I've trained more than 100 certified Scrum classes, and many other trainings. I've coached plenty of teams, Product Owners, ScrumMasters and organizational managers. Right now, I'm an Organisational ScrumMaster at Futurice, working with folks trying to create a successful, genuinely Agile organization. And I love my work. And my family :)
A programmer for fun since 1984 and for pay since 1991, it wasn't before 2005 that Martin decided to do something about all the failing software projects in the world. Although changing the world one Scrum (or Kanban) project at a time is a good start, Martin is determined to rip up the industrial paradigm by the roots and replace it with something that makes sense in the software industry, preferably before next Friday (which would leave the weekend free). Most astonishingly, this plan has been in place unchanged for half a dozen years now, and must therefore be truly excellent.
Janne Sinivirta is a senior consultant for Nitor Creations. A Java architect, a Scala nerd, a fitness enthusiast and a proud father of two. For the past few years, he has spent much of his free time developing games for mobile devices.
Marko Pukari has a long history in Enterprise development with Javaprogramming language. For a couple of years he has been working with mobile game development on his free time combining the knowledge and best practices from the Enterprise world. Currently he's working as a senior consultant for Nitor Creations.
Pierluigi Pugliese started hacking code so long ago that he cannot remember exactly when anymore. He worked many years in the mobile telecommunication business, both as programmer and as a team leader, providing software for several mobile phones of known brands.
Currently he works as a consultant for software organisations and coach for individuals and teams, focusing on software development and software processes, helping them implementing sound and agile solutions.
Pierluigi is based in Munich and operates through his company Connexxo (www.connexxo.com).
As an agile coach at Houston Inc., Antti helps clients such as Nordea as well as Houston's own development teams and leaders to get results working together towards common goals. He has worked with software R&D since 1998 and with Agile since 2006. Antti has a wide range of interests: product development, lean-agile software development, game design, and designing organizations to support knowledge work better. Antti is also an executive committee member of Agile Finland ry.
Johannes is a software developer and agile coach living in Helsinki, Finland. After graduating from Åbo Akademi in 2006, he took a detour to Leipzig, Germany and found himself spearheading the agile transformation of a company with 5,400 employees. Currently he works as an independent consultant, helping teams come up with simple solutions to complex problems.
Markus Hjort is a developer turned into a coach/trainer and then back into a developer. At some point he has tipped his toes to field of project management and agile testing too. He has extensive experience in agile methods and has been an active participant in process improvement wherever he has worked. Markus started Coding Dojo events in Finland back in 2005. He is one of the pioneers of the Finnish agile community and speaks frequently at international conferences. Today he is mainly interested in building right things right way while having fun
Tuuli works as a Concept Designer and a Team Leader in Finnish Digital Agency Ambientia. "I started my career as a web designer in a small Finnish New Media Agency in the late 90's. At the same time I spent my free time studying Digital Arts at Turku University of Applied Sciences in Turku Finland. My first working day back then started with a lesson from an Art Director. the title of this lesson was: "how to make great office coffee". On the second day I also learned how to drink it! My primary design tool back in those days was Flash. Making cool and fancy websites with the ultimate trio –Adobe PhotoShop, Dreamweaver and Flash. It was a great kick off (and loads of fun of course!) for my career. Oh those were the days! Some coffee cups and couple of websites and a few customer cases later I nowadays work as a Concept Designer at Ambientia. My team is just outstanding and it is a privilege to work with these excellent Interaction Designers and Concept Designers. At Turku Agile Day 2013 I will talk about using personas in service design – continuously. How to make sure the end user stays in our focus during the whole development process and beyond that to future releases. How to make the whole team really put yourself in the users' shoes (metaphorically speaking…).
As Reaktor's General Counsel Juha Ilola deals daily with agile software development contracts. He first encountered agile software development back in 2005, when a Finnish online entertainment company Sulake, his employer at that time, transitioned from waterfall to Scrum. Juha has also advised various clients in procuring agile software development services when he working at a major Finnish law firm.
Two years ago Erno asked from him self, while doing big deployment with scary feeling in stomach, "Isn't there better way to do this?". After since he have been passionated about Lean startup, Configuration management, continuous delivery and DevOps. Nowadays Erno run DevOps-Finland meetups at free time and work in Avaus as team leader.
Over 10 years of experience in ICT has provided Henrik with an excellent view on how companies operate on the field of ICT. He has a strong background in software development and his assignments have varied from supporting the software development process to visioning the future and managing software projects. His current assignment is related to process improvement in the ICT field. He is familiar both with agile development and more traditional methods like RUP and waterfall.
Passionate Leader Pasi Kovanen heads software development @ Vincit.
