About Us
Allan Kelly |
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Allan has over 16 years experience in the IT
industry, first as a developer and later as a
manager, including two years in Silicon Valley. Most
of this time has been spent with independent software
vendors whose very survival depends on their ability
to ship software.
He is a regular conference speaker and contributor
to publications on the subject of Agile development
and improving software development. His book,
“Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”
was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2008.
Allan is both a trained product manager and
project manager – holding PRINCE2 Practitioner
status. He holds a BSc in Computing and a Financial
MBA from Nottingham University Business School.
A long standing member of the ACCU, Hillside Europe patterns
group and Conference Chair of the 2008 European patterns conference,
EuroPLoP. For more information see www.allankelly.net.
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Giovanni Asproni |
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Giovanni has 15 years of experience in the IT
industry in which he worked in various
roles--programmer, architect, team leader, trainer,
and mentor--and in several domains including CASE
tools, telecom, bio-informatics, and, more recently,
banking.
He is a regular conference speaker, and a member
of the committee of the London XPDay conference and the conference
chair of the ACCU conference.
Giovanni is an expert in agile development, and a
Certified Scrum Master. He holds a "Laurea" (MSc
equivalent) degree in Computer Science from the
University of Pisa, Italy.
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Between them Allan and Giovanni have worked with blue-chip names such as Reuters, Sema Group, Barclays Capital and HSBC.
London Software Partners is a joint venture between Asprotunity Ltd (26 York Street London W1U 6PZ) and Software Strategy Ltd (7 Maldon Road, London W3 6SU).