SNESCM

Scandinavian Network of Excellence
in
Software Configuration Management

Presenters' bio:

Bolette Garmin (A Day in the Life of an SCM Person):
Being educated as a Librarian the cards were not laid for me to become a Configuration Manager, but the more I have been working as a configuration manager, the more I understand that it is actually a very good education for the role.
I have been working as a configuration Manager since 1998, where I started as a Software Configuration Manager in Ericsson Switching in Copenhagen. Unfortunately Ericsson chose to close down the danish development centre, so I switched to Mærsk Data, still as a software configuration Manager. In 2003 I started working with ITIL looking to implement the CMDB in Mærsk Data. I switched to the danish Medical Company H. Lundbeck, where I also implemented a CMDB and worked a lot with all aspects of process implementation. In 2011 I started as configuration manager in Carlsberg Group, where I am still working with implementing the CMDB and try to teach the development project about Software Configuration Management.

Peter Walls (Continuous Delivery):
Peter Walls is a Manager Consultant at Cybercom Sweden AB. Peter is specialized in the areas Software Configuration Management, Agile tools and -methodologies and Build- and Release Automation.

Lars Bendix (CM for Globally distributed Software Development):
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.

Artour Klevin (Make information visible - bring life to your data):
Artour Klevin a newly graduated student from LTH and works as developer at ABB. During his studies he found the Configuration Managment class very interesting. Because CM plays an essential part in the development of good software, he continues to evolve himself in the CM world.

Christian Pendleton (CM on Distributed Projects):
Christian Pendleton has been working with configuration management since 1994. He has always had a focus on process implementation 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. He is also an appreciated teacher in configuration management and in agile methodologies.
Today, Christian is a senior consultant at Softhouse Consulting Oresund with a focus on CM in agile development processes.

Otto Vinter (CM in Heterogeneous Environments - what solutions do you use?):
Otto Vinter is a specialist in software process improvement and 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.

Ulf Asklund (Challenges building a virtual CM organization):
Ulf Asklund is working as Enterprise CM Architect at Sony 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. 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.

Jan Magnusson (SCM = Supply Chain Management?):
Jan Magnusson is a CM strategist at Sony Mobile Communication. He has been working with SCM for 13 years, as tools developer, development team lead, process specialist, tools specialist, SCM solution architect and currently as CM Strategist at Sony. Project sizes has ranged from a hand full of people in one room to 2000 developers at 35 sites.