Conference organisation, programme committees, professional networks and international academic experience.
Programme committees and academic service
- EASE 2026, Glasgow, 9–12 June 2026 — Short Papers and Emerging Results Track. Conference venue.
- LAS ISD 2025, Belgrade, 3–5 September 2025 — Programme Committee Member.
- XP 2024, Bolzano, Italy, June 2024 — Agile Education and Training Track Chair.
- ICSE 2019 SEIP, Montreal — International Conference on Software Engineering, Software Engineering in Practice.
- ICSOFT-EA, 2007–2019 — International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications.
- ITiCSE 2017 — Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education.
- MODELSWARD, 2014–2015 — International Conference on Model Driven Engineering and Software Development.
- WRT’12 — 5th Workshop on Refactoring Tools.
- CSMR’07 — 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Re-engineering.
Conference organisation
- XP 2025 — 26th International Conference on Agile Software Development, 2–5 June 2025, Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland; General Co-Chair.
- Android Experience Day 2008 — Co-organised with JUGS the first Swiss Android Experience Day at FHNW in Windisch, attended by more than 80 participants.
- DSS Spring 2003 — 2nd Distributed Software Systems Conference, “Web Services – von der Technologie zur Anwendung.”
- SWEN Conference 2003 — Co-organiser of the founding conference for SWEN, the Swiss software engineering competence network.
- DSS Fall 2002 — “Microsoft .NET – Konzepte, Programmierung, Erfahrungen.” Founded and first organised the Distributed Software Systems conference series at the former Fachhochschule Solothurn Nordwestschweiz (FHSO). The former Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Technology (i3t) established this semi-annual conference series in autumn 2002 to cover the development and application of distributed software systems.
Professional memberships
- Swiss Agile Research Network (SARN) — Founder and member of the management board.
- GI — Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Computing Society) — Member of the Software Technik specialist group.
- CHOOSE — Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments — Special-interest group of the Swiss Informatics Society.
- SWEN — Software Engineering Network of Switzerland — Founder and member of the management board.
International academic experience
These visits are also described on the About page.
2023–2024 · Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Second research sabbatical with Craig Anslow, continuing research into agile software development and collaboration, including large-screen walls for agile teamwork.
2015 · Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Research sabbatical at the hotsoft lab with Robert Biddle and his team, investigating agile collaboration and the use of large-screen walls.
November 2002 · Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland
A two-week lecturing visit with several talks about UML and a one-day seminar, Introduction into UML, for industry and academia.