Jan Bosch

Jan Bosch is VP, Engineering Process at Intuit Inc. Earlier, he was head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Before joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he holds a professorship in software engineering. He received a MSc degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden. His research activities include software architecture design, software product families, software variability management and component-oriented programming. He is the author of a book "Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approach" published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley & ACM Press), (co-)editor of several books and volumes in, among others, the Springer LNCS series and (co-)author of a significant number of research articles. He is editor for Science of Computer Programming, has been guest editor for journal issues, chaired several conferences as general and program chair, served on many program committees and organized numerous workshops.

As a consultant, as a professor and as an employee, Jan has worked with and for many companies on strategic reuse in general and software product lines specifically, including Philips, Thales Naval Netherlands, Robert Bosch GmbH, Siemens, Nokia, Ericsson, Tellabs, Avaya, Tieto Enator and Det Norska Veritas. Around software product lines, he has published on, advised and implemented specific techniques and methods around, among others, software architecture, software variability management, the link to business strategy, organizational models, assessment frameworks, adoption frameworks and quality attributes. More information about his background can be found at his website: www.janbosch.com.

When not working, Jan divides his time between his family, a spouse and three young boys, reading science fiction and sports, preferably long distance running, swimming, biking and horseback riding.

Dieter Rombach

Dr. H. Dieter Rombach is a Full Professor in the Fachbereich Informatik (i.e., Department of Computer Science) at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany. He holds a chair in software engineering, is executive and founding director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE),. which aims at shortening the time needed for transferring research technologies into industrial practice. This Institute employs about 180 scientists, operates a sister institute at the University of Maryland, USA (about 25 scientists), and finances about 75% of its operating budget via industry projects. His research interests are in software methodologies, modeling and measurement of the software process and resulting products, software reuse, and distributed systems. In addition, he is a member of the board of the overall Fraunhofer organization. In that role he chairs the ICT group (13 institutes, 3000 scientists) of Fraunhofer. Results of his research are documented in more than 150 publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He is co-author of the book entitled “A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering: Empirical Observations, Laws and Theories” published by Addison Wesley, 2003.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Rombach held faculty positions with the Computer Science Department and UMIACS (University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies) at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland [1984-1991] and was a member of the SEL (Software Engineering Laboratory, a joint venture between NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Computer Sciences Corporation, and the University of Maryland) [1986-1991]. In 2003 he received the Distinguished Postdoctoral Award from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

He received his B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, in 1975, his M.S. degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Karlsruhe in 1978, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Federal Republic of Germany, in 1984. In 1990 he received the prestigious Presidential Young Investigator Award (US$ 500,000.00) from the National Science Foundation, USA, in recognition of his research accomplishments in software engineering. In 2000 he was awarded the Service Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, for his accomplishments in software engineering research and his contributions to the economic development of the state through the establishment of a Fraunhofer institute. Since 2003 her serves as a member of the Software Process Achievement (SPA) Awards Committee of Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute.

Dr. Rombach heads several research projects funded by German Government, European Union and Industry. He currently is the lead principal of a federally funded project (ViSEK) aimed at building up a German repository of knowledge about innovative software engineering technologies. He consults for numerous companies on issues including quality improvement, software measurement, software reuse, process modeling and software technology in general, and he is an advisor to Federal and State Government on ICT issues. He frequently gives industrial executive seminars on software quality improvement, software measurement, software reuse, and process modeling. He was Co-Guest-Editor of two Special Issues in IEEE Software, on Software Quality Assurance in September 1987 and Measurement-Based Process Improvement in July 1994, respectively, and organized the International Workshop on Experimental Software Engineering Issues in Dagstuhl, Germany, September 1992. He served as General Chair of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering in Berlin, 1996, and has been chosen as program co-chair for ICSE 2006 in Beijing, China. He is an associate editor for both the Kluwer Journal "Empirical Software Engineering" and ACM TOSEM” and serves on the editorial boards of numerous other journals and magazines (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methods, and IEE International Journal on Software Process). He serves on several international advisory boards for international research centers, e.g., Lero in Ireland, Simula Research Lab in Norway, CESE in USA, or NICTA in Australia. He has received a honorary PhD degree from the University of Oulu in Finland in 2009, is a member of GI and ACM, and a Fellow of IEEE.

Dirk-Jan Swagerman

Dirk-Jan Swagerman works as a director of software engineering at FEI Company. His focus is currently on people management, software processes, outsourcing and helping to rationalize business decisions by providing objective metrics. Dirk-Jan drove the introduction of a global software process for FEI based on a pragmatic but robust cocktail of RUP, Agile SCRUM and test-driven development. He hugely enjoys the multi-site, multi-disciplinary and multi-market environment at FEI. In nearly 20 years experience he has filled software engineering, architecture, team leading and project leading roles in several different software environments.

Markus Völter

Markus Völter works as an independent consultant and coach for software technology and engineering for itemis Stuttgart. He focuses on software architecture, model-driven software development and domain specific languages as well as on product line engineering. Markus is (co-) author of many magazine articles, patterns and books on middleware and model-driven software development. He is a regular speaker at conferences world wide. Markus can be reached at voelter at acm dot org or via www.voelter.de.