Dr. Roger S. Pressman is a software engineering guru. For over 30 years, he has worked as a software engineer, a manager, a professor, an author, and a consultant, focusing on software engineering issues.

Dr. Pressman has designed and developed products that are used worldwide for software engineering training and process improvement—Essential Software Engineering , the industry's most comprehensive video curriculum in software engineering, and Process Advisor, the industry's first self-directed software process improvement product.

Process Advisor is a simple, yet powerful, self-directed system, for software process improvement. The Process Advisor user base is growing throughout the US and internationally. Process Advisor user base includes software organizations in the area of information systems, technology organizations, engineering and scientific software builders, real-time and embedded software developers, and consulting firms. Process Advisor users include organizations such as AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Cisco Systems, Motorola, NASDAQ, Nokia Data Communications, Ernst & Young, Prudential Asset Management, Software Engineering Institute, Wordperfect Corporation, Unisys, and Software Productivity Consortium. More…

Dr. Pressman has also developed the Adaptable Process Model (APM). The APM is intended as a basis from which an organization can develop a customized software process based on specific project needs.

Dr. Pressman is the author of six books and many technical and management articles. His book, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, is the world's most widely used software engineering textbook. Worldwide, SEPA has sold more than 3-4 million copies and is the world's best selling book in software engineering. The book has been translated into eight languages (recent translations include: Chinese (2 dialects), Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian). SEPA has been used at over 500 Universities worldwide. SEPA is widely used in industry and is required reading for many industry and government short courses.

The sixth edition of the book (SEPA, 6/e) accommodates the dramatic growth in the field and emphasizes new and important software engineering methods. It includes information on architectural design, interface design, component-based software engineering, and web engineering. To complement SEPA 6/e, a comprehensive website called SepaWeb is being developed. The website will provide a broad array of software engineering resources that will benefit instructors, learners, and industry professionals.

Dr. Pressman has been on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Software and The Cutter IT Journal. He is a well-known speaker, keynoting a number of major industry conferences. He has presented tutorials at many industry meetings. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and Tau Beta Pi.

To know more about Dr. Pressman, visit his website www.rspa.com.