Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner of Microsoft Visual Studio

Sam Guckenheimer is the Product Owner of Microsoft Visual Studio product line and an author of Agile Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio, from Concept to Continuous Feedback.  He has 30 years experience as architect, developer, tester, product manager, project manager and general manager in the software industry worldwide.  In his current capacity as product owner, Sam acts as the chief customer advocate for the Visual Studio line, responsible for the end-to-end external design of the next releases of these products. 

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Sam was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, now the Rational Division of IBM.  He holds five patents on software lifecycle tools.  A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Sam is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University.  Sam lives in the Seattle area with his wife and three of his four children in a sustainable house they built. It can be seen in articles in Metropolitan Home and Pacific Northwest magazine.

Brian Harry, Microsoft Technical Fellow, General Manager Team Foundation Server zum ersten Mal in Deutschland

Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the General Manager for Team Foundation Server - a server-based product designed to dramatically improve the productivity, predictability, and agility of software development teams by ensuring that all team members have easy access to the information they need to make the right decisions at the right time. Brian Harry worked at start up DaVinci Systems doing electronic mail software from 1988 to 1992. In 1992 Brian left DaVinci Systems with two others to create One Tree Software. One Tree, was a classic garage-type startup company that developed and sold SourceSafe (the same product that is now Microsoft Visual SourceSafe).

One Tree Software was acquired by Microsoft in 1994. After joining Microsoft, Brian worked in what was then the Tools and Databases division. For a couple of years he worked on SourceSafe and then on Microsoft Repository. In 1996 he and others began working on the problem of improving the approachability of API for the developer masses. Although this started as investigation of ways to extend COM it eventually grew into what we now know as the .NET Framework. Brian served as the Development manager for the Common Language Runtime and then as the Product Unit Manager through the rest of the V1 and most of the V1.1 product cycle.

For personal reasons, Brian chose to move back to North Carolina at the end of 2002. Fortunately there was a great opportunity to open a development center there and continue to build tools to serve developers for Microsoft. Brian has built a team  in NC who work on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

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Prof. Dr. Lambert Grosskopf, Rechtsanwalt / Fachanwalt für Informationstechnologierecht (IT-Recht) / Fachanwalt für Urheber- und Medienrecht

Prof. Dr. Lambert Grosskopf, Fachanwalt für Informationstechnologie (IT-Recht) und Fachanwalt für Urheber- und Medienrecht; Schlichter für IT-Streitigkeiten bei der Schlichtungsstelle der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V. (DGRI); Schiedsrichter am Arbitration Center for .eu Disputes in Prag / am Czech Arbitration Court für Streitbeilegungsverfahren nach der Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) / am Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC).