Ricardo Balduino

Per Kroll

Learn about the Eclipse open source project for best practices called Eclipse Process Framework (EPF).

EPF enables individual developers and organizations to collaborate around software development practices within an open source environment. Rather than reinventing the wheel, organizations can build on each others work and ideas in a fully transparent environment. EPF provides practices for agile and iterative software development with a strong focus on collaboration. EPF is currently co- developed by over 20 organizations, and rapidly growing.

In this BoF session, we will discuss what EPF is, how your team can adopt it and how you can get involved in the project.

Ricardo Balduino is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM Rational Software and an Eclipse Process Framework project committer, architecting and developing the content of OpenUP/Basic since its early stages. His 12 years experience in the software industry includes delivering training and consulting services to help organizations adopt software development best practices. He has also developed software for financial services and industrial process automation. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Sao Paulo State University, Brazil.

Per Kroll is the project leader on the Eclipse Process Framework Project, an open source project centered on software practices, and development manager for RUP and the IBM Rational Method Composer. Per has twenty years of software development experience in supply chain management, telecom, communications, and software product development. He is author of the books The Rational Unified Process Made Easy – A Practitioner’s Guide, Kroll and Kruchten, and Agility and Discipline Made Easy – Practices from OpenUP and RUP, Kroll and MacIsaac. Per is a frequent speaker at conferences and author of numerous articles on software engineering.