Rational expert: Per Kroll

- Helped to create the IBM Rational Unified Process.

- Spearheads adoption of agile practices both inside and outside IBM, writing books and articles, offering adoption assistance, and co-chairing conferences to carry out this mission.

- Initiator and driver of the Eclipse Process Framework Project.

- Key thought leader behind OpenUP.

As development manager for the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) and IBM Rational Method Composer, Per Kroll is responsible for strategy in the process area. He is also project leader on the Eclipse Process Framework Project, an open source project which centers on software practices.

Per has a twenty-year background in software development for supply chain management, telecom, communications. He co-authored The Rational Unified Process Made Easy – A Practitioner’s Guide with Philippe Kruchten, and Agility and Discipline Made Easy – Practices from OpenUP and RUP with Bruce MacIsaac. A frequent speaker at conferences, Per has authored numerous articles on software engineering.

Per’s key areas of expertise include agile development.

• Agility and Discipline Made Easy – Practices from OpenUP and RUP (with Bruce MacIsaac) (link resides outside of ibm.com)

• The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to Rational Unified Process (with Philippe Kruchten) (link resides outside of ibm.com)

"Key principles for business-driven development"

"Making agile mainstream: Crossing the chasm"

Best practices for lean development governance:

    Part 1: Principles and organization
    Part 2: Processes and measures
    Part 3: Roles and policies

DeveloperWorks chats: Scott Ambler and Per Kroll answer questions on how to succeed with Agility at Scale

Podcast Interview: Per Kroll on Agility & Discipline, Distributed Dev, RUP Subsets (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Per’s materials on OpenUp (link resides outside of ibm.com)

• LinkedIn (link reside outside of ibm.com)