SNESCM

Scandinavian Network of Excellence
in
Software Configuration Management

Presenters' bio:

Ola Eklundh (SCM as the center of Project Management):
Ola Eklundh is a Senior Software Configuration Manager at Telelogic AB. He has spent his last ten years in several roles in the development organisation of the Tau Lab in Malmo, where the last five years has been dedicated to Configurations Management and Build Management. The overall driver for Ola has always been to improve the development process in the organisation to make it more streamlined.

Lars Bendix (Mining Software Repositories):
Lars Bendix is a visiting 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.

Peter Walls (How SCRUM upset my life; an interview with a disgruntled CM):
Peter Walls is a senior software consultant at Cybercom Sweden South AB, where he has specialized in the area of Software Configuration Management. Peter has mainly worked with the IBM Rational toolset and is also a certified instructor for IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest.

Andreas Bergström: (SCM in Scrum projects):
Andreas Bergstrom is a student at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has studied software engineering for almost six years in Sweden, USA, France and Spain. His main interest is software development and during his final master's thesis he is investigating how SCM can - and should - be used in Scrum projects.

Tero Kojo (Introducing a Continuous Integration Framework in a Large Organization):
Tero Kojo is a Configuration Management specialist at Nokia Devices. His main work is managing deployment of new tools to the organisation and overseeing the CM traning needs of the organisation.
He has previuously worked in several companies of different sizes and positions ranging from development to quality management.
He has also previously held a Software Configuration Management course at the Helsinki University of Technology for several years.

Jonas Blunck (Practical Continuous Integration):
Jonas Blunck is a software manager at TAC, Malmo where he spends his time working with software projects, teams and practices. Lately he has been focusing on implementing test driven development and continuous integration within TAC. Prior to being a software manager, Jonas spent 10 years as a software developer on the Windows platform and is also the author of a couple of popular spelunking tools such as ieHTTPHeaders, ComTrace and more.

Christian Pendleton (SCM and out-sourcing):
Christian Pendleton has been working with configuration management since 1994. He has always had a focus on processes and how CM integrates with the development process. Christian has worked primarily in large organisations with the complexity of numerous project members and distributed development.
Today, Christian is a senior consultant at Softhouse Consulting Oresund with a focus on CM in agile development processes.

Michael Redlich Lindahl (Document management with the SCM approach):
Michael Lindahl is a teamleader for the Configuration Management and Test Environment teams at ATP. In 1996 he received a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering and has spent the last 11 years with focus on software test. Today his daily work includes strategy and planning of Test and CM activities and people management.