Bernard Londeix

Bernard Londeix is an SMS Principal Consultant with extensive consulting experience supporting clients in the improvement of quality, development methodologies and Cost/Time Software Estimation practice. He is also an effective trainer, delivering courses on Function Point Analysis (COSMIC, IFPUG and MkII FPA), estimating (COCOMO II) and software metrics in the UK and France. He has also counted and audited a substantial number of applications using appropriate standards and holds SEI CMMI Staged Representation v1.2 certification.

His 30 years experience in the IT industry includes Project and Programme Management; I-CASE development environment; Requirements capture and Analysis extensible to full Life Cycle; Microsoft Visual Basic full development life cycle.

Bernard Londeix has delivered Information Technology consulting services to the finance, banking, insurance, and telecommunications industries as well as to Government institutions, bringing to his assignments a value-added focus for the economics and predictability of the software processes and their deliverables.

He was in the forefront of using Functional Size Measurement to control and improve the predictability of software development control and continues to be in the vanguard of developments this field. He holds considerable expertise and experience in COSMIC, the functional size measurement developed to measure modern software projects. He has also developed the MeterIT tool-chain which comprises a series of project measurement and estimation tools.

During the early 1980s, Bernard managed the metrics technology transfer programme from the Advanced Technologies Centre of ITT Programming (USA, Co) to STC Telecommunications (London), working alongside Ray Wolverton and Capers Jones.

A French national, resident in the UK, Bernard is also an SMS Client Account Manager working with clients – particularly French-speakers – to develop solutions to the challenges presented by using software-intensive systems.