Leverage open source techniques for successful projects
Abstract
Thu 12:15 - 13:00 Uhr | 2007
SubTitel: What project managers and developers can learn from the open source development model
Open source projects have resulted very successful products such as Apache,
eclipse, NetBeans, operating systems – What managers and developers can
learn from this successful projects, processes and techniques and which
tools they require, behind of their firewalls, for their corporate
development environment.
This speech shows our experiences at international Enterprises which are
successfully adopting open source techniques for distributed teams.
It shows within a concrete example how a collaborative platform with wiki’s
task, bug, requirements management, document sharing, build system helps
corporate development to successfully apply open source practises.
A life presentation will be given showing an integrated environment together
with eclipse, Mylar and NetBeans, Subversion together with codeBeamer.
Aron Gombas
Aron Gombas, Architect
Born in Hungary in 1976, Aron received his IT degree from the University of Veszprem, and later a B.S. in Marketing and Promotion from the Budapest College of Foreign Trade. Being a real CG geek he started his professional carreer at Graphisoft, developing 3D architectural CAD software in C++, but later decided to do something without linear algebra and pointer arithmetic.
He moved to Tokyo to work for a privately owned US consultancy specialized in enterprise development, focusing primarily to the printing industry, construction companies and financial institutions. He participated in architecting the company standard J2EE stack and lead the off-shore international development team.
After returning to Europe he has been working as architect at Intland Software and lead the architectural refactoring of their flagship product, CodeBeamer, the collaborative development platform.
In his previous life he was an active contributor to various open source projects (like Kosmos or JSPWiki).
Janos Koppany
Janos Koppany is Co-founder and CEO at Intland Software. Intland was founded in 1998 with the mission to innovate a new generation of collaborative software development tools to address the escalation in team distribution and ever-increasing project complexity. Intland’s collaborative software development solution, CodeBeamer, is being used across widespread industries by major organizations such as Allianz, BenQ Corp, Continental AG, DaimlerChrysler, Dassault Falcon, EDS, EADS, JPMorgan, USDA, Siemens, Schering AG and many others.
In the previous position he was director marketing and sales at Cygnus GmbH.
Prior Cygnus he was Co-founder and CEO at Multix Software which company was acquired by Cygnus (RedHat today) in 1993.