{"id":47,"date":"2010-03-30T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T08:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/making-of-software.com\/mos\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:00:29","slug":"gerald-heller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/about-mos\/gerald-heller\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerald Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/docs\/Gerald_600x600.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2229 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/docs\/Gerald_600x600-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"gerald_600x600\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/docs\/Gerald_600x600-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/docs\/Gerald_600x600-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/docs\/Gerald_600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>I am co-editor of\u00a0 <em>The Making of Software<\/em>, principal consultant of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swpm.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Software.Process.Management<\/a>, and partner at <a href=\"http:\/\/pd7.group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pd7.group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My expertise draws on more than 30 years experience of globally distributed, large scale software development. My professional activities and responsibilities have covered almost all aspects of the software lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I work as trainer and consultant focusing on the areas of software product management. Using a holistic approach, I combine processes and practices with optimal tool support.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"276\">Earlier in my career, I worked for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software, where I was responsible for the worldwide requirements management practice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"362\">In the past, I spoke at conferences, although I now focus on publishing in journals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"674\">My academic background includes a diploma in computer science (Dipl.-Inf. Univ.) from Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, and I am a member of the German Computer Society (GI) as well as a founding and current board member of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA\u00ae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am co-editor of\u00a0 The Making of Software, principal consultant of Software.Process.Management, and partner at pd7.group. My expertise draws on more than 30 years experience of globally distributed, large scale software development. My professional activities and responsibilities have covered almost all aspects of the software lifecycle. Today, I work as trainer and consultant focusing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2880,"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/2880"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingofsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}