SNESCM

Scandinavian Network of Excellence
in
Software Configuration Management

Presenters' bio:

Otto Vinter: (Panel: SCM as a service - what do our customers want?):
Otto Vinter is an independent consultant and mentor (www.ottovinter.dk) advising clients based on his long and comprehensive experience in the software engineering field. He is a specialist in software process improvements for testing, requirements engineering, development models, and configuration management. He mentors project managers, and implements organization-wide CMMI compliant processes. He has often wondered why the CM processes are the hardest to implement in an organization.

Claus Jepsen (Panel: SCM as a service - what do our customers want?):
Claus Jepsen is a PMI and PRINCE2 certified project manager with in depth knowledge of a wide variety of businesses and with solid technical and business understanding. Since 2007, Claus Jepsen has worked for KMD, the largest Danish based IT company with over 3,200 employees and a turnover of more than DKK 3,8 billion.
Claus Jepsen has managed development projects for large private companies and in the public sector domestic as well as offshore. Recently, Claus Jepsen was appointed programme manager for a 3-year change management program within KMD targeted at optimizing processes. To reach that objective it is decided to implement CMMI ML3 and PRINCE2 using a LEAN-inspired approach.
Claus has more than 20 years experience from the IT industry

Henrik Andersson (Panel: SCM as a service - what do our customers want?):
Since 1998, Henrik has been working within software testing and major part of this time in managing roles such as test lead, test manager or process responsible. Henrik has been working with telecom, medical devices, life and insurance, SAP and supply chain system.
Henrik is helping large international companies increasing their efficiency and reconstructing their testing to deliver better, faster, cheaper and with improved quality.

Mikael Piotrowski (Panel: SCM as a service - what do our customers want?):
Working with a lot of code together with others have made me quite opinionated about what tools I need in order to work effectively and according to spec (if such exists). I'm mostly tool centric when it comes to SCM and am deeply entrenched with usability issues. I've put some thought into and observing why some programmers fail to recognize the benefits with certain SCM tools or the features they contain.

Ulf Asklund (Panel: SCM as a service - what do our customers want?):
Ulf Asklund is working as a CM strategist at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications developing CM strategies and processes. He is responsible for the corporate CM standard including how to identify, revise, and structure all product parts and documents. Current work involves to define a strategy for how to build the product structure (entire offering) supporting the overall business strategy.
Ulf Asklund is also an associate professor of configuration management with the Department of Computer Science at Lund University, Sweden (on leave). Ulf received his M.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1990 and earned his Ph.D. in computer science in 2002. His research interests include SCM and software engineering in general. He is especially interested in the developer view in software engineering, focusing on tool support and IDEs. His research also includes computer-supported cooperative work and PDM, and how these can be combined and integrated with SCM.
Ulf Asklund is the co-author of the book: Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management, Artech House, 2003.

Jacob Gradén (Managing product variants in a component-based system):
Jacob is a Master of Science in Engineering, with a focus on software development; and a Master of Science in Business and Economics, with a focus on management accounting. Software Configuration Management is a special interest of his, since in many ways it deals with both engineering and business concerns. Also, he likes camping.

Anna Ståhl (Managing product variants in a component-based system):
Anna Ståhl recently graduated with a degree in M.Sc. in Information and Communication Engineering Technologies from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. She did her master thesis at Sony Ericsson by studying how variants can be managed efficiently in large systems. She's now working as system consultant which also contributes to her knowledge about and practical experience with configuration management.

Lars Bendix (Teaching SCM - the essential and the full Monty):
Lars Bendix is an associate professor at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. His main research interest is software configuration management and how it can be used to support software development processes. He is also interested in agile processes and their pedagogical use in software engineering education. He received a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Aarhus University, Denmark in 1986 and a PhD Degree from Aalborg University, Denmark in 1996.

Tomas Lundström (A Tool with No Branching):
Tomas Lundström has been working with Software Engineering since 1986, and developed an interest for Application Lifecycle Management in the 90's while working with Objectory/Rational Software (originators of industry standards like Use Cases, UML, RUP and ClearCase/ClearQuest). Tomas has spent the last decade at mid-sized ISV's, working with configuration, build and release management, initially using the Rational toolset, but later shifting towards more lightweight solutions.

Bengt Johansson (Branch by Abstraction):
Bengt Johansson is a software developer, software configuration manager and release engineer at Schneider-Electric. He has been working with software development since 2001 and today mostly works with developing the build and test tools at Schneider Electric Buildings division in Malmö. Bengt Johansson received a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in 2002.

Mikael Piotrowski (So What Is This Distributed Version Control I Keep Hearing About?):
Mikael Piotrowski is a pragmatic web and application programmer, engineer, generally quite smart and likes to draw pretty pictures. Currently he spends his time working with web development together with a team at Tailor Store Sweden AB. Before that Mikael worked as a software engineer contractor at ENEA and trained other contractors to use tools such as git and Mercurial. Mikael's academic credentials include two degrees. He received the first degree at 2004, a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from Campus Helsingborg; and the second degree at 2008, an M.Sc. in Information and Communications Engineering from Faculty of Engineering in Lund University.

Lennart Kjellén (A Day in the Life of a CM Person):
Lennart Kjellén is Configuration Manager at Scania where his responsibility since 2008 is defining and implementing a corporate SCM framework. His work includes deploying new tools as part of the SCM framework and educating users. Lennart has 20 years' experience in software development from large projects within Swedish industry. During the last 7-8 years with special focus on software configuration management using a variety of SCM products and tools.