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Dr Anthony (Tony) Rollo BA PhD MBCS is a Managing Consultant for Software Measurement Services Ltd. He has worked and taught in the field of software engineering since 1973.
He is an expert in estimation & cost modelling with extensive experience of the three main ISO-standard Functional Size Measurement methods. A contributor to the COSMIC Metrics Practices Committee, Tony is a Certified Function Point Specialist in both IFPUG and Mk II Function Point Analysis. He has a strong background in structured programming, analysis and design, both from the practical and academic viewpoints.
Tony is a specialist in Performance Benchmarking. He is the Lead Author of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group’s Standard Benchmarking Process, and a member of the SEI’s Performance Benchmarking Consortium.
He is experienced in the practical implementation of Process Improvement and Software Measurement. Tony has performed process assessments based on the SEI’s Capability Maturity Model and provided support to organisations re-engineering their software development processes. He has conducted supplier capability assessments against the CMMI® and elements of P-CMM. Tony has presented introductions to the CMMI in both Russia and the USA, and.
Tony is an amusing presenter who has contributed to a variety of conferences. He was a Keynote speaker at the 2005 UKSMA conference on the topic – The end of Software Engineering in the West, and has also been a frequent presenter at the European SEPG conference; the Software Measurement Forum in Rome, and the Australian conference on software measurement. He spoke at the Chinese conference on software Process Improvement in Beijing in 2006 and was invited to address the Chinese Software Process Improvement Conference (SPIN) in Beijing, China in 2008.
Keywords
Estimating; cost-modelling; FPA; COSMIC; Benchmarking; ISBSGs; Software Process Improvement; CMMI; P-CMMI; Role of Software Engineering; Software Professionalism.