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The First Software Product Line Conference Keynote Speaker

Colin Tully
European Software Process Improvement Foundation

Colin Tully is Technical Director of the ESPI Foundation. He graduated in Economics from Cambridge University in 1960, and in 1961 he was one of a two-man team who wrote the world's first multi-programming operating system (for the LEO III series of computers). For nearly thirty years, including periods at the London School of Economics and the University of York, he gained a wide variety of training, education, research, consultancy and management experience in both information systems and software engineering, latterly specialising in databases and software engineering environments. In 1989 he established Colin Tully Associates as an independent consultancy in software process improvement, working extensively in the European ESPRIT and ESSI programmes (Commission reviewer and evaluator, and partner and subcontractor in many projects). He is a European Engineer, UK Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the British Computer Society, editor and co-author of Improving Software Practice (Wiley, 1998), co-author of Réutilisation Logicielle (Eyrolles, 1999), and an editor-in-chief of the journal Software Process: Improvement and Practice.