Sylvie Trudel

Biography

Sylvie Trudel has worked since 1985 in software development and software process improvement in various fields such as aerospace, insurance, banking, scientific sector, within public and private organizations. After completing her Ph.D. at ETS in 2012, she became a professor of software engineering at UQAM. She has applied the COSMIC method in the industry since 2003 to build estimation models, measure the software process productivity, and benchmark organizational performance. She teaches now the COSMIC method in software project management and software measurement courses, in addition to mentoring students using COSMIC as part of their master degree project. She is co-author of the book Choosing Agility: From Software Development to Governance (in French). She has worked as a senior advisor in software engineering since 1996 and as an agile coach after her Scrum Master certification in May 2006. She has also been a lecturer at the University of Sherbrooke, where she taught the software measurement course to software engineering graduate students, including functional size measurement with COSMIC method.