SNESCM

Scandinavian Network of Excellence
in
Software Configuration Management

About the presenters:

Lars Beck (A Quality Assurance view on Configuration Management):
Lars Beck has been working with SW development for 25+ years, holding a variety of positions such as: project manager, systems engineer, SW lead, SW developer, tester, test manager and for the last 7 years he has been assigned to the quality department as Quality Manager.

Mauro de Pascale (How to change/evolve a SW architecture to better support CI/CD scenarios):
Mauro de Pascale has an education as Electronic Engineer at Genoa University from 2001, however he started working in the Telecommunication Industry as Developer, Architect and thereafter as Team Leader earlier since 1996. SCM was discovered in 2001 and progressively growths to main task up to now as Continuous Integration global responsible to the UA organization in Siemens Genoa.

Conny Enghoff (Moving from past into future):
Conny Enghoff is Lead Developer at SimCorp A/S, Denmark. She has been with the tools group at SimCorp since 2002 and plays a central role in the product integration and release of SimCorp Dimension. She finds it important to provide good tool support for the developers and testers in Product Division.
She has special interest in software configuration management and development automation for large heterogeneous environments. Conny received a BSc in Software Engineering from Technical University of Denmark in 1985.

Sten Rosendahl (Experiences with integrating an SCM system with a binary repository manager)
Sten Rosendahl is the software configuration manager in the devops group at FIS Front Arena AB, Stockholm, Sweden. Sten has 35 years of experience in SCM tools and processes, supporting development, build, release and change management of C/C++, Java, Python and web technologies in distributed development organizations. As a published science-fiction author in his spare time, Sten has also in interest in imagining the future from both a technical and social perspective.

Lars Bendix (Micro-tutorial: Streamed lines, branching patterns),
(Open Space: Towards a Configuration Management Manifesto):
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.

Sofus Albertsen (Open Space: Naming convensions and versioning schemes, one standard to rule them all?):
Sofus Albertsen is a CoDe Trainer and Consultant in Praqma Copenhagen. Before joining Praqma he was assistant professor on an Applied Science Bachelor programme.

Christian Pendleton (Open Space: Naming convensions and versioning schemes, one standard to rule them all?):
Christian Pendleton have been working with configuration management since 1994. He have always had a focus on supporting developers with "best ways of working" and how CM integrates with the development process. His main experiences comes from large organisations with complex products, distributed projects and complex toolchains. He is an appreciated teacher in configuration management, distributed version control and in agile methodologies.
Today, Christian is CEO for Praqma AB in Sweden, focusing on making continuous delivery and DevOps work as the infrastructure for agile development.

Artour Klevin (Open Space: Centralizing vs. Distributing SCM (Not GIT vs. Subversion))
Artour Klevin - After completing MS in Computer Engineering at LTH in 2012, started to work at ABB and as CM from 2013. In 2016 he started to work as consultant at Softhouse. Currently consulting at Tetra Pak, as Configuration Management expert and working as a part of dedicated System Team to create a effective workflow. His current tool chain is TFS, Artifactory and Octopus.

Jon Nessmar (Open Space: Centralizing vs. Distributing SCM (Not GIT vs. Subversion)):
Jon Nessmar has been working with Software Development since 1996 in various roles and last 12 years as CM. Today Jon is working as a consultant at Softhouse where he help and coach teams in their DevOps and Continuous Delivery transformation.