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The Call for Speakers for October’s Practical Product Lines 2009 conference in Amsterdam is Friday 26th June 2009.

Proposals are invited covering topics on any practical aspect of System and Software Product Lines.

Sessions could cover topics such as:

• Migrating legacy systems to Product Lines
• Model-Driven Software Development for Software Product Lines
• Product Line evolution
• Domain Analysis and Domain Engineering
• Agile methods for Software Product Lines
• Product Line Scoping, Requirements Engineering for Product Lines, Testing Software Product Lines, Variability Management etc.
• Tool and technology development and adoption
• Any other topic related to the practical realisation of Software Product Lines

Case studies and interactive sessions based on any aspect of these and related approaches are particularly encouraged although more theoretical sessions are also welcome.

Take part in Practical Product Lines 2009 and find out how you can boost your productivity while improving the quality and time-to-market of your products.

In addition to paying no conference fees, being a speaker gives you a unique opportunity to discuss your experiences with other Software Product Line practitioners.

Visit the Practical Product Lines 2009 web site for more information and to submit a proposal.

The first keynote speakers for October’s Practical Product Lines 2009 conference in Amsterdam have been announced as Jan Bosch (Intuit) and Markus Völter (independent / itemis).

Jan is a well-known product line speaker, practitioner and researcher with a long history working on software product lines and strategic software reuse with organisations such as Intuit, Nokia Research, Philips and others. Jan is the author of the book “Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and Evolving a Product Line Approach” – probably my favourite book on Software Product Lines – and has published on, advised and implemented specific techniques and methods around, among others, software architecture, software variability management, the link to business strategy, organizational models, assessment frameworks, adoption frameworks and quality attributes.

Markus will be well-known to regular readers due to his participation in our Code Generation conference. He is an independent consultant and coach for software technology and engineering for itemis Stuttgart. He focuses on software architecture, model-driven software development and domain specific languages as well as on product line engineering. Markus is (co-) author of many magazine articles, patterns and books on middleware and model-driven software development and is founder of the popular Software Engineering Radio podcast.

Practical Product Lines 2009 is a new event for the System and Software Product Lines communities. The event has a strong practical focus with an emphasis on sharing successful practices in these areas. A Call for Speakers runs until 26th June and accepted speakers have their conference fees waived.

Please visit http://www.practicalproductlines.org/ppl2009/ for more information.

It’s hard to believe that this year’s Code Generation conference is happening next week. We’ve been working on the event for over a year now and it’s taken lots of people to bring the event together but we’re almost there.

Peter Bell and Andrew Watson have been busy recruiting an excellent set of panellists for the respective  panel sessions:  The State of the Art in Domain Specific Modeling & Migrating to Model-Driven Development. If you have any questions you want to be asked then you can either save them for the panels or let us know in advance and we’ll pass them on.

Andrew’s panel will run on the first day and we’ll hear from Kathleen Dollard (AppVenture),  Richard Hensman (SciSys UK), Steven Kelly (MetaCase) & Chris Raistrick (Kennedy Carter).

Peter’s panel will close the conference and panellists will be Steve Cook (Microsoft),  Juha-Pekka Tolvanen (MetaCase),  Jos Warmer (Ordina) & Markus Völter (Independent / itemis).

We’re aiming to audio-record both panels for later upload to the Model-Driven Software Network.

We’re also starting to get a few BoF and Lightning talk proposals. Hopefully the BoF organisers will collect some material and write it up for later publication. My plan is to run the best lightning talks again, if the speakers are willing, at an online meet-up of the Model-Driven Software Network.

More on the conference soon…

Booking for this year’s Code Generation conference in Cambridge, UK will close shortly.

Participants at previous year’s events have said it was the best conference they’ve been to in a long time with 100% of participants at last year’s event saying it was good value for money.

This year we have a very strong programme of 30+ sessions focussed on practical experiences with Code Generation and Model-Driven Software Development. This includes 3 extended hands-on sessions and lots of case studies, experiences reports and tutorials.

Discounted participation is available for our partners, participants from previous years and for academics.

Don’t miss out – book now at http://www.codegeneration.net/cg2009/booking.php - don’t say you weren’t warned if you leave it to long and the conference has sold out.