Krasner, Herb

Biography:

Herb Krasner is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Director of the Software Engineering Industry Affiliates Program. He is also a successful software excellence consultant. His personal mission, spanning several decades, has been to enable the development of superior software, and to stamp out poor quality software, wherever found. He is best known for his leading edge work on modeling the costs of software quality, reporting the ROI data for software process improvement, coaching organizational improvement programs and reporting the results from his empirical studies of professional programmers. He has published over 55 papers, articles and book sections, has spoken at many professional conferences and meetings, and is active in professional organizations and societies.

Research Interests:
His current research interest areas include:

• Empirical studies of software engineering
• The human factors of software engineering (e.g. teamwork models)
• Agile development methods
• Software design paradigms
• Software engineering process improvement
• Software engineering best practices