Alberto Sillitti (PhD, PEng) is an assistant professor with the Faulty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen (Italy). He holds a PhD in electrical and computer engineering received from the University of Genoa (Italy, 2005). He is involved in several EU funded projects related to agile methods and open source software in which he applies non-invasive measurement approaches. He has served as a member of the program committee of several international conferences and as program chair of OSS 2007 in Limerick (Ireland). His research areas include agile methods, open source development, software engineering, non-invasive measurement, and Web services. He is author of more than 80 papers published in international conferences and journals.