Jan Bosch,
VP Engineering Process at Intuit


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About the Webinar: RYMA's December 2nd Webinar was presented by Jan Bosch of Intuit. Software product lines present the first successful approach to intra-organizational reuse. Companies that successfully deployed software product line technology were able to achieve order of magnitude growth over a decade or achieve major business milestones and the talk will present several of these.

Our experience with dozens of companies shows that successful product lines, however, over time suffer from increasing dependencies the software assets that make up the product line and, consequently, the teams associated with these assets. This results in high coordination cost, slow release cycles and high system-level error density.

We present the notion of compositional software product lines as an approach to address the root cause of these problems without sacrificing the key benefits of software product lines.

About the Presenter: Jan Bosch works in a corporate role to guide and facilitate the adoption of software product lines, or large scale software reuse, and to develop software engineering processes at Intuit including architectural, development, validation and evolution/maintenance processes.

He has more than 15 years experience in large scale software development research and practice through direct line management, "matrixed" roles, external consultant roles and as a professor of software engineering. Areas of expertise include the technical, business and organizational dimensions of software architecture, software product lines, service architectures, mobile services and applications, etc.