Featured Presenters

Keynote:  Emily Bache

Chuck Bates

Chuck Bates is a physicist turned software developer with a wide range of experiences. He currently is a Principal Software Engineer at SamCart, but has previously worked at small start ups, large DoD contractors, and everywhere in between. His experiences have included solo work, pairing, and mobbing with the implementation of those practices changing significantly across different organizations. These variations in common practices led Chuck to first consider more frequent smaller retrospectives focused on the practices themselves in 2018 while leading a team of engineers at Pluralsight.

Since then he has successfully implemented frequent mob focused retros at several companies and enjoys seeing the benefit of frequent focused experimentation leading to rapidly evolving software teams. When Chuck isn’t coding you can find him fiddling with his 3D printer, engaging in amateur astronomy, or spending time with his wife and six children. You can find out more about Chuck on his Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-bates/

David Batten

Hi, I’m David, a Software Architect at Packsize International. I’m just a social computer geek that decided to work with what I love. I’ve always enjoyed collaborative work environments with quick and regular feedback. Turns out, agile is something that just always felt right, so I’ve been practicing it for about 20 years.

I’ve been Software Teaming as a primary way of developing software solutions since 2014 and use it whenever possible. I have used it to write and maintain code in various languages on software teams and to write and maintain Infrastructure as Code for large cloud installations, leveraging Software Teaming strengths to create mostly bug-free, continuously delivered solutions.

Jay Bazuzi

Jay Bazuzi is a software developer that loves working in legacy code while dreaming about what could be possible. He believes that software is written by people for people.

Find out more at https://github.com/JayBazuzi/Talks/blob/main/JayBazuzi.md

Mike Clement

Mike Clement is a husband, father of four, and currently a Distinguished Software Engineer at Hunter Industries. Mike believes we work best when we are working together which led him to Mob Programming in 2014. At the time he was practicing promiscuous pair programming, but after a visit to Woody Zuill, Chris Lucian, and the others at Hunter Industries at the time, he introduced Mob Programming at Pluralsight. Next he founded Greater Sum, an apprenticeship program that took software developers with little to no professional experience and accelerated their learning using Mob Programming. Mike later worked in engineering management positions, helping teams to adopt and improve their practice of Mob Programming.

Some other leading practices Mike is passionate about are Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, User Story Mapping, Domain Driven Design and Open Space Technology. Passionate about raising the bar of technical excellence in the software development community, Mike is a founder and organizer of Software Crafters Atlanta, the Software Crafters Unconference, and the Lean+Agile Atlanta Unconference. Find out more about Mike on his blog (http://blog.softwareontheside.com/) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mclement/.

Lisa Crispin

Lisa Crispin has had the good fortune to work on several teams that embraced software teaming. Her most recent team, fully remote, came up with effective hacks to succeed with their daily teaming. Her organizations have also used teaming, often with practitioners from different teams, for sessions devoted to exploratory and acceptance testing activities. Lisa is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Holistic Testing: Weave Quality Into Your Product; and their three volume Agile Testing book series. She and Janet co-founded the Agile Testing Fellowship, which offers live training courses both remotely and in-person, based on their Holistic Testing model – and encouraging teaming practices. Lisa helps teams assess and improve their quality and testing practices, to succeed with continuous delivery.

Please visit www.lisacrispin.com, www.agiletestingfellow.com, and www.agiletester.ca for more. Contact Lisa on Twitter as @lisacrispin, and LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crispin-88420a/

Lisi Hocke

Lisi found tech as her place to be in 2009 and has grown as a specialized generalist ever since. She’s passionate about the whole-team approach to holistic testing and quality and enjoys experimenting and learning continuously. Building great products that deliver value together with great people motivates her and lets her thrive. Having received a lot from communities, she’s paying it forward by sharing her stories and learning in public. She posts on Mastodon as @lisihocke@mastodon.social and blogs at www.lisihocke.com. In her free time, she plays indoor volleyball or delves into computer games and stories of all kinds.

Lennart Friden

For more than a decade I’ve been introducing teams and organizations to the concept of Mob Programming (also known as Software Teaming or Ensemble). In doing so, I’ve grown a particular fondness for its power to transform a scattered collection of individuals into a tight-knit team, working, learning, and sharing. I’ve come to realize that I greatly enjoy developing developers rather than simply developing software. Make no mistake; building something that others use is a fantastic feeling, but also building your colleagues’ confidence, skills, and sound principles in the process makes it so much more rewarding.

Blog: https://codecoupled.org
GitHub: https://github.com/DevL
Mastadon: https://hachyderm.io/@devl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennartfriden

Llewellyn Falco

Agile Technical Coach. [Approval Tests](http://github.com/approvals) Inventor. [Teaching Kids Programming](http://www.teachingkidsprogramming.org) Cofounder. [Mob Programming Guidebook](https://leanpub.com/mobprogrammingguidebook) CoAuthor. Discoverer of [Strong Style Pairing](http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.fi/2014/06/llewellyns-strong-style-pairing.html) and Legacy code geek.

Chris Lucian

Advocating for mob programming to leadership and throughout the organization.

Chris Lucian, the director of software development at Hunter Industries and a founder of mob programming. I am passionate about the advancement of software craftsmanship and machine learning. I seek the continuous improvement of myself, my family, my company, and my community. I believe that we can explore the unexplored potential in all things when looking at our processes with automation and creativity in mind. Growing up I learned a lot about both the importance of Psychological Safety and what it can look like when it does not exist. I was fortunate enough to go to a project based middle school where I learned the importance of public speaking, research, technology and delivering my work quickly and frequently. I worked full time when going to university for both my masters and bachelors and in doing so I learned the importance of time management and deliberate deep work. In my career I have found that all of these skills are important to be effective. When I have a moment of free time, I spend it gaming or reading sci-fi and fantasy.

I wrote my masters thesis on Computer Vision, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Machine Learning.

Janina Nemec

Janina is currently working as a Software Developer and Ambassador for Agile Technical Learning at REWE Digital in Cologne. She is passionate about learning and the quality of the products she works on. She and her team develop new features and automated tests together as an ensemble.

Chris Pipito

Chris Pipito is an independent consultant, musician, organizer and coach. He has been coaching people, teams, and organizations across industries including Automotive, Financial, Insurance, Retail, Health Care and Telecom since 2012. Chris recently has been coaching for learning with teams in Dojo’s, helping teams improve their current capabilities or learning new ones while delivering their products. He is also the organizer for the DDD Philly group, part of the DDD United States community, helping people learn more about Domain-Driven Design and how to apply that learning to their work.
Dojo: https://www.dojoandco.com/
Domain-Driven Design: https://www.meetup.com/ddd-philly/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-p-213aa635/

Quinton Quartel

Quinton’s passion is to make the world a better place through the win-win of helping businesses be more effective, adaptable, innovative, and profitable – while co-creating healthy workplaces as growth environments for humans to flourish. Quinton’s background is in software, and his career has followed different roles always related to software and agility. Those roles exposed him to many flavours of agile. Finally frustrated with the predominance of “dark agile”, Quinton began experimenting with better ways of working and has had some major breakthroughs. He is now a consultant, facilitator, trainer, and keynote speaker at worldwide public and private events, sharing his findings and helping progressive organizations reach the next level.

Rickard Westman

I’m the journalist turned product guy turned manager.
I enjoy helping teams and individuals collaborate and communicate better.
Agilist. Previous head of six Mob Programming teams responsible for building and maintaining SVT’s online news offering.

Woody Zuill

Woody Zuill is an Agile and Lean Software Development guide who has been programming computers for 40+ years. He is an originator and pioneer of the Software Teaming (Mob Programming) approach to teamwork in software development, and provides workshops, coaching, and training on team software development. He is also a founder of the “Beyond Estimates” discussion, and a frequent speaker at conferences and developer meet-ups all over the world.