Magnus Christerson, Intentional Software Corporation

Magnus Christerson is Vice President, Product Management, at Intentional Software Corporation. Most of his career has been devoted to modern software engineering practices like object-oriented development and model driven practices in industrial contexts.

Prior to joining Intentional Software, Christerson held multiple positions at Rational Software (acquired by IBM in 2003) including Director of Product Management. At Rational, Christerson was instrumental in building a leadership position for Rational Rose, the leading UML product for visually designing and generating software programs. He has also consulted on software development for many organizations including Citigroup, Qwest, Ericsson and American Express.

Christerson is co-author with Ivar Jacobson of /Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use Case Driven Approach,/ Addison-Wesley 1992. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology from Lund Institute of Technology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Presentation: "Intentional Software - Domain Expert DSLs"

Track: Domain Specific Languages in Practice

Time: Thursday 17:15 - 18:15

Location: Abbey Room

Abstract:

Business experts programming? Intentional offers a radical new software approach that separates business domain knowledge from software engineering knowledge. This simplifies the software creation process as domain experts contribute directly the business knowledge using their own business domain language.

Business experts innovate quicker and become more responsive to changes in the business domain. Programmers are still responsible for the software created, but instead of encoding every business requirement, they concentrate on the job they do best: creating a clean, reusable and reliable code generator. The business knowledge is weaved into the software code through code generation.

This session will discuss a case study at Capgemini where the Intentional approach is used in the Financial Services domain.