WELCOME TO PRACTICAL PRODUCT LINES 2010

November 17 & 18, Océ R&D, Venlo, NL

With its emphasis on providing actionable guidance on best practices, Practical Product Lines 2010 is the ideal opportunity for software practitioners to understand how to benefit from emerging approaches, technologies and tools in the field of Software Product Lines.

The Call for Speakers has now closed and we are developing the event program. Please contact us for more information and to be kept up to date on event news.

WHO'S PPL2010 FOR?

PPL2010 is for people who want to successfully apply or just learn more about the following topics:

• Product line architecture
• Domain analysis and domain engineering
• Model-driven development for software product lines
• Agile methods for software product lines
• Migrating legacy systems to product lines
• Multisite development with product lines
• Knowledge sharing within product lines
• Product line scoping, requirements engineering for product lines, testing software product lines, variability management
• Product line evolution
• Tool and technology development and adoption
• Other topics related to the practical realization of software product lines

The focus throughout the event is on practical experience of these tools and technologies with a range of sessions from beginner to expert. The conference language will be English.

PPL2010 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

We are very pleased to introduce Philippe Kruchten (University of British Columbia) as a conference keynote speaker. Full details of Phillippe's keynote talk will appear here shortly.

Philippe Kruchten Philippe Kruchten is first and foremost a professional software engineer, with thirty years of industrial experience developing large-scale software-intensive systems in the domains of telecommunications, aerospace, defense, transportation and software tools. From 1996, he was director of process development at Rational Software, where he developed the Rational Unified Process (RUP). He kept his position when Rational was acquired by IBM in 2003. Since 2004, he is professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Kruchten has authored numerous publications, of which ‘The 4+1 view model of architecture’ is one of the most cited articles in the field of software engineering.

WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT OUR PREVIOUS EVENTS

"The combined—for that matter, individual—expertise present was remarkable, and presented a tremendous opportunity for knowledge exchange."

"The presentations were all top quality, making it often difficult to decide between the concurrently running sessions. The wealth of ... knowledge present at the event was impressive, not only from the presenters, but from the other delegates as well."

"I enjoyed the conference very much, it has been the best conference of the last years I’ve been to. A very good selection of speakers, but I also think that the level of expertise of the audience was very high, much higher than I expected. ... it gives the opportunity to dig much deeper."

"... this time this has been the highest-quality conference on this topic that I've been to - and I've been to a few."

"I'll definitely try to attend next year and will recommend this conference to my colleagues and customers."

"...exhausting but thoroughly enjoyable and very informative"

"[A] great opportunity to meet with influential practitioners in the field."