Dr. Guenther Ruhe holds an Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at University of Calgary.  Dr. Ruhe is proud to lead a research team whose primary aim is to establish and demonstrate scientific excellence in the area of software engineering decision support and to collaborate with industry. His main research interests are in the areas of Software Engineering Decision Support, Product Release Planning, Software Project and Process Management, Software Quality Management, Empirical Software Engineering, Software Measurement, Learning Software Organizations as well as Modeling and Simulation. The recent book “Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications”, CRC Press 2010, presents methods and tools to apply sound planning to product development and product management.

Dr. Ruhe has organized different international conferences and workshops, has given keynotes at various conferences and is a reviewer for a couple of journals in software engineering, computer science and operations research. He has published more than 155 reviewed research papers at journals, workshops and conferences. He is the Associate editor of the Elsevier Journal Information and Software Technology and a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Journal on Software Process Improvement and Practice, Journal of Intelligent Decision Technologies, Journal on Intelligent Hybrid Systems, Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, and International Series on Advanced Intelligence. He is a TRLabs Scientist and a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the German Informatics Society GI.

He has been the “product guy” at six Silicon Valley tech start-ups including as CEO and VP Marketing/Products. Rich founded the first Product Camp, now a worldwide series of unconferences where product managers network, teach, learn and share. His Product Bytes blog covers software, start-ups, product strategies, Silicon Valley, and the inner life of product managers. This turned into his book “The Art of Product Management.”

Rich lectures widely at business schools and executive education programs, served on the SVPMA board, and chaired the first product manager/ product owner track at the Agile Alliance’s annual conference.  Rich has a BS Physics from Yale and an MBA from Stanford.

Contact him at Mironov Consulting, 233 Franklin St, Suite 308, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA. Phone +1-650-315-7394. Email rich (at) mironov.com or www.mironov.com.

Chris Twyman is a Global Product Manager for the Danish software company Netop specializing in secure remote access and support solutions. Chris has been working in the IT industry for nearly 20 years and has held a number of senior positions in system administration, technical support, pre-sales consultancy and product management. He is ISPMA Certified Software Product Manager.

In his current position based in the UK, Chris operates as part of an internationally dispersed team following Agile development methodologies with the goal of delivering solutions to large enterprise customers worldwide,  focusing on retail, healthcare, finance and public sector market segments in particular. As part of his product management responsibilities, Chris is heavily involved in delivering, defining and communicating product strategies, business cases, product roadmaps and requirements engineering. Much of his time is spent travelling between the worldwide offices for cross-functional purposes and meeting with key customers accounts to help drive forward business opportunities in Europe and the United States. 

Contact him at ct@netop.com

Through more than 20 years of industry experience, including 14 years with the software product business of HP, Barbara developed a deep understanding of growth and innovation models and of the business models that characterize the software and internet industry.

Currently, Barbara is especially interested in the “Lean Startup” and “Customer Development” methods that reduce the uncertainty of introducing new types of products by applying a rigorous and systematic approach to learning.

She holds a master degree in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

As an active member of the mentor circle of CyberForum Karlsruhe and of bwcon: Baden-Württemberg Connected she shares her knowledge with German start-ups.

Contact her at barbara hoisl – strategy consulting, Usedomstraße 15, 70439 Stuttgart, Germany. e-Mail: barbara (at) makingofsoftware.com. Detailed profile via LinkedIn

Krzysztof’s research investigates and supports large-scale requirements
engineering, in particular requirements scoping and decision making.

Contact him at Lund Univesity,Department of Computer Science, SE 221 00, Lund, Sweden.

Phone +4640 222 45 17 , e-mail krzysztof.wnuk@cs.lth.se

Achim’s research investigates software product management in general, its cross-functional integration with design, impacts of private-life IT-Experience on perceptions and expectations towards software products, and application of quantitative research methods in IS research.

Contact him at University of Mannheim, Chair of Information Systems IV, Schloss, 68131 Mannheim, Germany. Phone: +49 621 181 3625. e-Mail: botzenhardt @ eris.uni-mannheim.de.

Andrey’s research investigates new approaches, methods, and processes that help companies in creating the right products at the right time for the right market.

Contact him at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Information Technology, Faculty of Technology Management, FI-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland. Phone: +358 5 621 2836. e-Mail: andrey.maglyas @ lut.fi.

Kevin researches techniques to improve process quality.

Contact him at Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 30 253 6300. e-Mail: k.vlaanderen (at) uu.nl.

Marc is a partner of Oppenhoff & Partner. He was an associate and managing associate at Oppenhoff & Rädler / Linklaters LLP from 2002 to 2007. He studied law at the Universities of Passau, Angers, Illinois (LL.M.) and Cologne (Dr. iur.). As part of his legal training he worked for the US law firm Allegaert Berger & Vogel in New York.

Contact him at Oppenhoff & Partner, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23, 50668 Cologne, Germany. Phone: +49 221 2091 612. e-Mail: marc.hilber (at) oppenhoff.eu. Homepage: www.oppenhoff.eu.

Tolpagorni Product Management is represented by Magnus Billgren.

Contact him at Tolpagorni Product Management AB, Sveavägen 98, 113 50 Stockholm, Sweden. Phone: +46 760 161 494. e-Mail: magnus.billgren (at) productmanagement.se. Homepage: http://productmanagement.se/.