Dr. Kjetil Moløkken-Østvold is a Senior Partner at Conceptos IT Development in Norway (www.conceptos.no). Areas of expertice include project management, cost estimation, process improvement and agile development.
Moløkken-Østvold received his Masters degree in Informatics from the University of Oslo in June 2002. In December 2004 he received the PhD-degree in Informatics from the University of Oslo and Simula Research Laboratory. He has experience as Assistant Director and Postdoctoral researcher at Simula Research Laboratory, and as founder and manager of Project Economics.
He has been the author and co-author of over 2o scientific papers published internationally. Topics include cost estimation, agile software development, project management, public software projects, collaboration and communication, group processes and research ethics. An updated list of publications can be found at www.simula.no/people/kjetilmo.
In addition to these publications, Moløkken-Østvold also has extensive experience as a speaker. He has presented popularized talks for various parties including Steria, Telelogic, Computas, Abelia, Sintef, ICT-Norway and Government department officials, as well as on venues such as JavaZone, Agile 2007 and Smidig 2007.