Bosch and Völter announced as PPL2009 keynotes
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.