Productivity: People, Process, and Technology

This year we address a particularly broad set of topics, mostly related to the conference motto "Productivity: People, Process, and Technology". Especially today, it is very important that as software professionals we know how to improve the productivity of our development teams. Key factors to achieve this include people (e.g. ensuring that team members have the necessary individual and team skills), process (e.g. having processes that help discover problems early to avoid rework), and technology (e.g. modeling for working at a higher level of abstraction, architectures that enable large-scale reuse).

We have a strong focus on architecture-related topics such as SOA, Modelling, Domain-driven Design, Product Line Engineering, OSGi, and Cloud Computing and process-related topics such as agile, lean, requirements engineering, and testing. We address specifically also management & metric related topics as well as trend topics such as dynamic languages, security, global development, and multi-core software development. We have a great roster of internationally renowned speakers and a large variety of practically-oriented presentations and experience reports to choose from. The conference program offers a compact overview of the latest topics related to software from both the technical and the business perspectives. In additional to the increase in productivity through people, process and technology, it is also a fact that a better synchronization of the technical and business perspectives is a great source for significant productivity improvements.

I look forward to seeing you at the OOP during the conference.

Yours sincerely
Dr. Frances Paulisch
Technical Chair 

As the technical chair of the conference, Dr. Frances Paulisch, has the overall responsibility for the technical quality of the OOP conference. She received her doctorate in the area of software engineering and has extensive experience in software engineering and related management topics. Furthermore, she was until 2008 editor of the software magazine OBJEKTspektrum.