Dr. Rafael Prikladnicki is Assistant Professor of Computer Science School at PUCRS. He has been active in the global software engineering (GSE) community for the last nine years and in the agile software development community for the last five years. For the last two years he has been interested in how GSE and agile methodologies impact organizational decisions on software development, including business and technical decisions. He has been acting as coach and instructor in agile software development (focusing on Scrum, XP and Lean). Rafael is vice-coordinator of the Agile Users Group (GUMA) in Porto Alegre. He was part of the organizing committee of the 2009 Latin-American Conference on Agile Development Methodologies, and he is involved with the ICGSE series organizing committee since the first edition in 2006. He is also the general chair of the Brazilian Conference on Agile Software Development, to be organized in 2010.

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