Autor: Ross Jeffery

Adam Trendowicz is a senior consultant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he leads the Measurement and Prediction team. He has led software cost estimation and software measurement improvement activities in software companies of different sizes and from various fields, and has been involved in functional software size estimation and productivity benchmarking in organizations from both industry and the public sector. Trendowicz’s other software engineering interests include project management, software product quality modeling and evaluation, and technology validation by means of empirical methods. Ross Jeffery is an Emeritus Professor of Software Engineering at the UNSW’s School of Computer Science and Engineering and a research consultant in the Systems Software Research Group at National ICT Australia (NICTA). His research interests are in software process and product modeling and improvement, software knowledge management, software metrics, software technical and management reviews, and software resource modeling and estimation. His research has involved over fifty government and industry organizations over a period of more than 20 years and has been funded by the industry, government and universities. Jeffery was elected a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society for his contributions to software engineering research.