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About the Authors
Brian Berenbach is the technical manager of the requirements
engineering competency center at Siemens Corporate Research in
Princeton, NJ. Prior to joining Siemens, he consulted for many of the
Fortune 100 companies on large projects. For several years he was
an architect at ABB Corporation and oversaw the installation of
large software-based systems in power companies. Mr. Berenbach
has graduate degrees from Emory University and the U.S. Air
Force, and he is an ACM Distinguished Engineer.

Daniel J. Paulish is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ, responsible for
the Siemens Software Initiative in the Americas. He is a co-author
of Software Metrics: A Practitioner’s Guide to Improved Product
Development, the author of Architecture-Centric Software Project
Management: A Practical Guide, and a co-author of Global Software
Development Handbook. He is formerly an industrial resident
affiliate at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), and he has
done research on software measurement at Siemens Corporate
Technology in Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.
Juergen Kazmeier holds a major degree in Mathematics and a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.
He has worked at Siemens on software development processes,
methods, and tools, and he has been a researcher and consultant on
modeling languages and visualization methods. As a member of
the Corporate Development Audit Unit, he analyzed and supported
large product development and IT projects. Within the Intelligent
Transportation Systems Division, he headed a global development
group, as Vice President of R&D. Dr. Kazmeier has been responsible
for the Software and Engineering Research Department at Siemens
Corporate Research, where he started the Siemens Requirements
Engineering Global Technology Field. Currently, he is Vice President
of the Software Engineering Services Division of Siemens IT
Solutions and Services, headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
Arnold Rudorfer holds an M.S. in Telematics degree from the
University of Technology, Graz. Prior to joining Siemens, he worked
as a developer, process consultant, and manager for user interface
design and usability engineering at the European Software Institute
(Spain), the Institute of Production Engineering Research (Sweden),
and Meta4 (Spain), a French software multinational. At Siemens, he
was responsible for building up Corporate Technology’s first
regional business unit in the United States, the User Interface Design
Center. Since 2004, he is heading the Requirements Engineering
(RE) Global Technology Field with Centers of Competence in
Princeton (NJ, USA), Munich and Erlangen (Europe), as well as
Beijing (China).