Pentti Virtanen, Ph.D.

System Engineering Specialist

Two decades as a team "leader" in software projects

- Agile and traditional practices

- Early adopter of lean and agile practices

      - Self-organizing teams, a decade in team rooms

      - Iterative development with monthly deliveries

      - Backlogs, daily meetings (in 1981!)

      - Test driven development, continuous integration

- Software engineering process developer in many organizations                

- Large and small organizations

Ph.D., Computer Science

- Thesis finalized in 2003:

      "Measuring and Improving Component-Based Software Development"

Trainer and coach in Tieturi since 2003

- 100+ agile course events

- 600+ course events altogether

     - Software engineering, architectures, SOA, UML, tools