Researchers, educators and experts in Function Point Analysis.
Alain Abran - Dr. Alain Abran is a Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) - Université du Québec.
He is currently Co-executive editor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge project. He is also actively involved in international software engineering standards and is Co-chair of the Common Software Metrics International Consortium (COSMIC).
Dr. Abran has more than 20 years of industry experience in information systems development and software engineering. The maintenance measurement program he developed and implemented at Montreal Trust, Canada, received one of the 1993 Best of the Best awards from the Quality Assurance Institute.
Alain.Abran@etsmtl.ca
Buglione, Luigi - Dr. Luigi Buglione is Associate Professor at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) – Université du Québec, Canada and is currently working as Process Improvement Specialist at Engineering.IT (formerly Atos Origin Italy and SchlumbergerSema) in Rome, Italy. Previously, he worked as a Software Process Engineer at the European Software Institute (ESI) in Bilbao, Spain.
Dr. Buglione is a regular speaker at international Conferences on Software Measurement, Process Improvement and Quality. He is also the Vice-President of the Italian Software Metrics Association (GUFPI-ISMA), where created the Software Measurement Committee (SMC), member of the ISBSG Technical Advisory Group, of the ISO/IEC WG10 Study Group and other technical national bodies on such issues.
He developed and was part of ESPRIT and of Basque Government projects on metric programs, EFQM models, the Balanced IT Scorecard and QFD for software. He is also a reviewer of the SWEBOK project, co-authoring the proposal for a new Knowledge Area on Software Measurement for the upcoming 2010 edition.
He received a Ph.D in Management Information Systems from LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy) and a degree cum laude in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.
He achieved the following certifications: IFPUG CSMS (Certified Software Measurement Specialist), COSMIC, ITIL v3 Foundation.
Charles Symons - Charles Symons is an independent consultant, leading COSMIC (the Common Software Measurement International Consortium) jointly with Professor Alain Abran of the Ėcole de Technologie Supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada.
cr.symons@btinternet.com
Dekkers, Carol - Carol Dekkers, CMC, CFPS, P.Eng. (Canada), is a recognized Industry Expert in Software Measurement and Function Point Analysis (Function Points), with a focus on accurate estimating and productivity and quality improvement. Carol is Past-President of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG), an ISO project editor for the U.S. and involved in leadership of the Metrics SIG of the Project Management Institute. Carol has written over 50 published articles on measurement, process improvement and function points available at her website at www.qualityplustech.com. Carol also moderates the Quality Plus Measurement Forum at Yahoo!Groups (www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Quality_Plus_Measurement_Forum) and is the president of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc.
Garmus, David - David Garmus is an acknowledged authority in the sizing, measurement and estimation of software application development and maintenance. He serves as a Past President of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) and as a member of the IFPUG Counting Practices Committee. He is also a member of QAI, PMI (and their Information Systems Specific Interest Group) SEI and the IEEE Computer Society (and their Standards Association).
Herron, David - David Herron is coprincipal and co-founder of The David Consulting
Group. He is an acknowledged authority in using metrics to help
organizations monitor the impact of Information Technology (IT), the advancement of IT organizations to higher levels on the Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model®,and the governance of outsourcing arrangements. Herron assists clients in establishing software measurement, process improvement, and quality programs
and to enhance their project management techniques. He has co-authored a book on Function Points.
Jones, Capers - Capers Jones is Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR). Capers Jones founded the company. He has almost 40 years of experience in software cost estimating. Jones designed IBM's first automated estimation tool in 1975, and is also one of the designers of three commercial software estimation tools: SPQR/20, Checkpoint, and KnowledgePlan. These software estimation tools pioneered the use of function point metrics for sizing and estimating. They also pioneered sizing of paper documents, and the estimation of quality and defect levels. To build these tools, SPR has collected quantified data from more than 600 companies.
Reifer, Donald J. - Mr. Reifer has over 30 years of progressive experience in both industry and government. Recently, Mr. Reifer managed the DoD Software Initiatives Office under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). As part of this assignment, he also served as the Director of the DoD Software Reuse Initiative and Chief of the Ada Joint Program Office. Mr. Reifer's areas of expertise include
software reuse, Ada, software testing, Cost estimation (COCOMO), and software acquisition.
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