Peter Baxter

pbaxter@distributive.com
www.distributive.com

Pete Baxter is President of Distributive Management, where he directs delivery of measurement related products and services. He manages the development of measurement solutions for military, government and commercial customers. He has had the privilege of working with the most quantitative and mature software and systems organizations such as Intel, Motorola, Raytheon, Lockheed, General Dynamics, and others. He is a frequent author, trainer and presenter on the subject of measurement and metrics. Mr. Baxter is actively involved in the development of systems and software measurement standards and guidebooks in leading professional organizations, including IEEE, ISO, Practical Software Measurement and INCOSE.

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Denise Cattan

Denise Cattan graduated in Nuclear Physics in 1966. Very early Denise was involved in the physical handling of information, followed by technology. She became interested in all aspects of maintenance and reliability.
Having gained a thorough understanding of systems, Denise then contributed to the business development of these systems, developing proposals at the technical level.
This work led her contribute to the Corporate Level Thales Group for the improvement of methods and processes used in engineering system. In this respect it has helped as an author in the preparation of CMM ®. She has participated extensively in distribution, and continues to monitor development conducted under the responsibility of SEI.
 

Cattan Denise is member of AFIS, in charge of the Working Group on Models of maturity and indicators. " INCOSE" She has been a member since 1997 and regularly attends international symposia which meet annually a thousand people to discuss topical issues for the engineering system.
Denise Cattan joined Spirula in 2005.

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Ton Dekkers

ton.dekkers@shell.com
www.isbsg.org

Ton is working as practitioner and manager -within the area of project support, software measurement and quality assurance/or over 15 years. Within these areas, he specialises in estimating, performance measurement (Sizing, Goal-Question-Metric, and Benchmarking), Risk Analysis and Scope Management. He currently is Head of Centre of Excellence for Estimating & Metrics in Shell Information Technology International.

In 1992 he developed the "FPA in enhancement" methodology that has evolved as an alternative method to estimate enhancement projects.
 In 1996 he was involved in the development of Test Point Analysis, an extension to FPA in order to estimate strategy based testing. Lately he is emphatically involved with the development and promotion of COSMIC.
Ton is President of International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG),Vice President of the Netherlands Software Measurement Association (NESMA), member of the International Advisory Committee of COSMIC and Director-A t-Large ISBSG in the Project Management Institute (PMI) Metrics Specific Interest Group (MetSIG).

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Dan Galorath

galorath@galorath.com
www.galorath.com

Daniel D. Galorath is President and Founder of Galorath Incorporated, and is a recognized expert in software estimation and sizing. During his 33 years in the computer industry, Mr. Galorath has been solving a variety of management, costing, systems, and software problems. He has performed all aspects of software development and management. His company, Galorath Incorporated, has developed tools, methods, and training for software cost, schedule, risk analysis, and management decision support. These solutions include the industry standard SEER-SEM software evaluation model. Dan Galorath holds a BA and MBA, both from Cal State.

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Tom Gilb

Tom Gilb joined IBM in 1958 and has been a business consultant since 1960, with his own company (www.Gilb.com).
He currently trains and consults with top management for organizational develoment, and engineering management for product development, as well as in the finance industry in the City of London, and internationally.

 He ‘coined’ the term ‘Software Metrics’ for his book title, over 30 years ago!
CMM/I Level 4 (Metrics!) is directly based on his Software Metrics teaching and writings.
He wrote 124 Columns in Computer Weekly in the 70's - Gilb's Mythodology (did you change any practices as a result?).
His latest book "Competitive Engineering' (2005) is filled with practical metrics practices, based on his 'Metrics Language' (Planguage or planning language).

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Patrick Hamon

patrick.hamon@spirula.fr
www.spirula.fr

Patrick Hamon graduated from an engineering school in Paris, and from the University of Paris  in 1987. After different positions in technical areas,  Patrick became Technical Director of a software development company. He has also managed different software companies in France,  like Continuus Software and Telelogic. In 2003 Patrick created Spirula,  a company specialised in Process and Measurement for IT. Spirula is a co-author of CMMI and has a strong expertise in Estimation,  Software Measurement,  Measurement & Analysis Statistical Process Control. Spirula is a partner of the the SEI,  and collaborates on these subjects with IFPUG,  IEEE and ISO.

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Bernard Londeix

Bernard Londeix graduated in 1968 from the INP-ENSERG, Grenoble, and followed his interest in the then emergent French computing industry by joining the recently-created CII, Louveciennes. This was the beginning of his participation in the production of software, moving from firmware to large business and real time software. This in turn reached a further determining stage when he was working within the ITT Group in 1979 in London. Bernard’s book "Cost Estimation for Software Development" was published by Addison -Wesley in 1987 and at this time, he also carried out his first software benchmarking exercise as a basis for next steps. In order to make software measurement, project estimation and benchmarking activities more readily available, Bernard created Telmaco Ltd (www.telmaco.com) in 1989 offering the MeterIT tool suite and related services. As member of the Community of Practice of SMS (www.measuresw.com), and working at making software metrics more accessible to project management, Bernard is contributing to set the standard, teach it, and practise it at all organisational levels. In this he has worked with a number of client organisations including governmental institutions, and software development organisations independent or part of a diversity of industries.  Bernard participates in the COmmon Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC) Group (www.cosmicon.com) and takes an active role in promoting the COSMIC method of measuring software production. This method has the unique advantage of being applicable to business, real-time and infrastructure software, that is, to most of the software industry.

Bernard is a member of APM, UKSMA, COSMIC, and IET.

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Roberto Meli

Roberto Meli graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science in 1984. Since 1996 he has been General Manager of DPO Srl. For the past 15 years he has worked as an expert in project management and software measurement and has written articles and papers for technical magazines and international conferences. In 1996 and 2001, Roberto Meli passed and renewed the IFPUG exams to be a Certified Function Points Specialist (CFPS). He is a consultant and lecturer in training courses on project management and software measurement for many major Italian companies and public organisations. He is an active member of the Project Management Institute.

Roberto invented and developed the Early & Quick Function Point Analysis method, managing the implementation of the Sfera product. Currently, he is coordinator of the GUFPI - ISMA (Gruppo Utenti Function Points Italia - Italian Software Measurement Association) CPC (Counting Practices Committee); chairperson of the board of Directors of GUFPI-ISMA, Italian delegate to the MAIN (Metrics Association's International Network) and has been "Chairperson of the COSMIC Measurement Practices Committee"

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Grant Rule

Grant (PG) Rule, a founder of Software Measurement Services Ltd, has 35 years experience in all aspects of the life-cycle of software-intensive systems, project and process appraisal, performance measurement, estimating, benchmarking and continuous improvement. He is a recognised authority on quantitative methods and estimating. He and Ken Dymond introduced the CMM® into the UK, and brought to Europe the first public ‘Introduction to the CMMI®’ workshop. Grant has worked with both customer and supplier organisations, across the private and public sectors, within the UK and internationally, to implement successful ‘output-based contract management’ methods using a ‘unit-price’ for costing. He has contributed to the definition of structured methods (JSP/JSD, SSADM, etc), the concepts of ‘executable specification’, ISO standards, and the IFPUG & MkII methods of Function Point Analysis, and has participated in the COmmon Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC) developing 3rd generation sizing methods since 1997. Grant served on the Advisory Board to IEEE Software for ten years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. His current mission is to encourage lean, more agile and better-quantified approaches to remove waste from product development and software management practices.

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Charles Symons

Charles Symons has almost 50 years experience in the use of computers for business and scientific purposes, in both public and private sectors, in all the major disciplines of the Information Systems function.  He has led IT strategic planning projects in a very wide variety of industries around the world.

He has published original work in computer use accounting, data analysis, computer security, and the measurement of application development productivity.

He is now semi-retired, but in the working part of his life he is joint project leader of COSMIC, the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (www.cosmicon.com).  COSMIC is an informal grouping of software metrics experts that has developed a method of software functional size measurement, applicable to business, real-time and infrastructure software. 

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