Howard G. Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki and was a co-author of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. A pioneer in both design patterns and extreme programming, he started coding the WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on c2.com on March 25, 1995, as an add-on to the Portland Pattern Repository. He co-authored a book about wikis, entitled The Wiki Way, and invented the Framework for Integrated Tests.
SAP SE is a German multinational software corporation based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. The company is especially known for its ERP software. SAP is the largest non-American software company by revenue as well as the world's third-largest publicly-traded software company.
Watts S. Humphrey was an American pioneer in software engineering who was called the "father of software quality."
In software development, agile practices involve discovering requirements and developing solutions through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s). It advocates adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continual improvement, and it encourages flexible responses to change.
Craig Larman (1958) is a Canadian-born computer scientist, author, and organizational development consultant. With Bas Vodde, he is best known for formulating LeSS, and for several books on product and software development.
ThoughtWorks is a privately owned, global technology company with 43 offices in 14 countries. It provides software design and delivery, and tools and consulting services. The company is closely associated with the movement for agile software development, and has contributed to a content of open source products. ThoughtWorks' business includes Digital Product Development Services, Digital Experience and Distributed Agile software development.
QuickBooks is an accounting software package developed and marketed by Intuit. QuickBooks products are geared mainly toward small and medium-sized businesses and offer on-premises accounting applications as well as cloud-based versions that accept business payments, manage and pay bills, and payroll functions.
Scrum is an agile framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products, with an initial emphasis on software development, although it has been used in other fields including research, sales, marketing and advanced technologies. It is designed for teams of ten or fewer members, who break their work into goals that can be completed within time-boxed iterations, called sprints, no longer than one month and most commonly two weeks. The Scrum Team track progress in 15-minute time-boxed daily meetings, called daily scrums. At the end of the sprint, the team holds sprint review, to demonstrate the work done, and sprint retrospective to improve continuously.
Kevin C. Desouza is an Indian American academic. He is an ASU Foundation professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2012-2016 he served as Associate Dean for Research at the College of Public Service & Community Solutions.
Follow the Sun (FTS), a sub-field of globally distributed software engineering (GDSE), is a type of global knowledge workflow designed in order to reduce the time to market, in which the knowledge product is owned and advanced by a production site in one time zone and handed off at the end of their work day to the next production site that is several time zones west to continue that work. Ideally, the work days in these time zones overlap such that when one site ends their day, the next one starts.
Mastek is a global technology company offering enterprise level digital transformation services and software for large public and private enterprises in the UK, US and India.
Assembla is a web-based version control and source code management software as a service provider for enterprise. It was founded in 2005. It was acquired by San Antonio Venture Equity firm Scaleworks in 2016. It offers Git, Perforce Helix Core and Apache Subversion repository management, integrations with other enterprise softwares such as Trello, Slack and JIRA as well as the Cornerstone Subversion client for macOS. Assembla also offer integrations with customer's managed private clouds.
Exigen Services recently merged and renamed to Emergn. Insurance Software production under Exigen Insurance Solutions has separated and was renamed to EIS
Gojko Adžić is a software delivery consultant and author of several books on Serverless computing, Impact Mapping, Specification by example, Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development and Agile Testing. Adžić is a prolific speaker at software development and testing conferences.
Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese multinational electronics company founded in April 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, home appliances, bags, shoes, consumer electronics, and many other products. Xiaomi is also the fourth company globally after Apple, Samsung and Huawei to have self-developed mobile system-on-chip (SoC) capabilities.
A technical support scam refers to any class of telephone fraud activities in which a scammer claims to offer a legitimate technical support service, often via cold calls to unsuspecting users. Such calls are mostly targeted at Microsoft Windows users, with the caller often claiming to represent a Microsoft technical support department.
Communication in Distributed Software Development is an area of study that considers communication processes and their effects when applied to software development in a globally distributed development process. The importance of communication and coordination in software development is widely studied and organizational communication studies these implications at an organizational level. This also applies to a setting where teams and team members work in separate physical locations. The imposed distance introduces new challenges in communication, which is no longer a face to face process, and may also be subjected to other constraints such as teams in opposing time zones with a small overlap in working hours.
Bridge Global is a Dutch-owned global software services provider for businesses worldwide. The company, headquartered at Amsterdam in Netherlands, was founded by Hugo Messer on 1 May 2005. Bridge Global has development centers in Ukraine and India along with sales offices in Sweden and the United States.
Leonid Boguslavsky is an entrepreneur, scientist, and the founder of RTP Global. He was one of the first investors in Yandex, Ozon, Delivery Hero, Epam, DataDog as well as SnapDeal. In 2012 he was the Internet investor of the year (Forbes). Most successful investor of the year. He is in Forbes billionaires list.
Distributed agile software development is a research area that considers the effects of applying the principles of agile software development to a globally distributed development setting, with the goal of overcoming challenges in projects which are geographically distributed.
