Jan Pries-Heje, IT University of Copenhagen

Jan Pries-Heje holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is now Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is also (part-time) Professor in Software Engineering and Management at the IT-university of Gothenburg. Jan Pries-Heje is certified ISO 9000 auditor and BOOTSTRAP assessor, and has been project manager for a number of IT and Software Process Improvement projects. He worked as a Consultant 1997-2000. In this period he also did an extensive study of project estimation in Denmark for the Danish Software Engineering Forum. His research interests include information systems development, software engineering, and software process improvement. He focuses on organizational and managerial issues. Jan has published more than 100 papers and chapters in these areas in journals and conferences.