Dr. Markus Pizka

Geschäftsführer
& IT-Strategieberater

Dr. Markus Pizka

Promovierter Compilerbau-Experte, Gründer der itestra, über 20 Jahre IT-Strategie und Modernisierung.

Stockholm

Ausbildung

Dr. rer. nat. Informatik, magna cum laude

TU München

International Summer School

Institute for Advanced Study

Diplom Informatik

TU München

Auszeichnungen

Über 70 internationale Publikationen

10 Years Most Influential Paper Award

ICSME 2017

Most Influential Paper Award

ICPC 2015

Dr. Markus Pizka unterstützt als Strategieberater Vorstände führender Unternehmen bei der Entwicklung moderner IT‑Strategien. Parallel lehrt er an Hochschulen und engagiert sich in der digitalen Innovation.

Zuvor war er zehn Jahre wissenschaftlich tätig und veröffentlichte über 70 internationale Arbeiten zu Softwarewartung, verteilten Systemen, Compilern, High‑Performance‑Computing, Betriebssystemen und Open‑Source‑Software. Seine Schwerpunkte liegen in der strategischen Modernisierung komplexer Softwarelandschaften und der Verbindung von Informatik, Ökonomie und Branchenexpertise in Versicherungen, Banken, Handel, Telekommunikation und Pharma.

Als Gründer, Gesellschafter und Geschäftsführer verantwortet er die strategische Ausrichtung und Entwicklung des Unternehmens. Privat reist er gerne und bleibt als ehemaliger Leistungssportler sportlich aktiv.

itestra: Mit Innovation und Kontinuität zum Erfolg

Markus Pizka

Informatik Spektrum, 2021

Concise and Consistent Naming

Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka

Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension, St. Louis, MO, May 2005

ICPC Most Influential Paper Award (2015)

An Activity-Based Quality Model for Maintainability

Florian Deissenböck, Stefan Wagner, Markus Pizka, Jean-François Girad, Stefan Teuchert

Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2007), IEEE CS Press

ICSME 10 Years Most Influential Paper Award (2017)

A Language-Based Approach to Construct Structured and Efficient Object-Based Distributed Systems

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Markus Pizka, Claudia Eckert

Proceedings of 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Volume 1, pp. 130-139, Maui, January 1997, IEEE CS Press

Best Paper of Minitrack

Wie verträgt sich Digitalisierung mit vorhandener (Alt-)Software

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Markus Pizka

Objektforum München, 2017

Understanding Legacy Architecture Patterns

Ricardo Perez-Castillo, Benedikt Mas, Markus Pizka

10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE), 2015

Why Software Quality Improvement Fails (and How to Succeed Nevertheless)

Jonathan Streit, Markus Pizka

Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Honolulu, May 2011

Establishing Economic Effectiveness through Software Health-Management

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Markus Pizka, Thomas Panas

1st International Workshop on Software Health Management (SHM 2009), Pasadena, CA, July 2009

Tool Support for Continuous Quality Controlling

Florian Deissenböck, Elmar Jürgens, Benjamin Hummel, Stefan Wagner, Benedikt Mas y Parareda, Markus Pizka

IEEE Software, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 60-67, September/October 2008

Practically Relevant Quality Criteria for Requirements Documents

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Jonathan Streit, Markus Pizka, Tobias Simon

Proceedings of SERP 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2008

Probabilistic Analysis of Process Economics

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Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka

Software Process: Improvement and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Volume 13 Issue 1, January/February 2008

Software Engineering Services

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Markus Pizka, Ingo Schnabel

2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Applied Computing, Las Vegas, June 2007

Automating Language Evolution

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Elmar Jürgens, Markus Pizka

First IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, Shanghai, June 2007

How to effectively define and measure maintainability

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Markus Pizka, Florian Deissenböck

SMEF 2007 - 4th Software Measurement European Forum, Rome, May 2007

The Economic Impact of Software Process Variations

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Markus Pizka, Florian Deissenböck

International Conference on Software Processes 2007, LNCS 4470, Minneapolis, Springer, May 2007

Tool-Supported Multi-Level Language Evolution

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Elmar Jürgens, Markus Pizka

Software and Services Variability Management Workshop, Helsinki, April 2007

SOA2 Report - State of the Art Service-Orientierter Architekturen

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Markus Pizka, Markus Eisele

Technical Report, msg systems AG, April 2007

Variability Models Must Not be Invariant!

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Elmar Jürgens, Markus Pizka

First International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VAMOS), Limerick, January 2007

Kosten-basierte Klassifikation von Qualitätsanforderungen

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Stefan Wagner, Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka

Workshop Erhebung, Spezifikation und Analyse Nichtfunktionaler Anforderungen, SE Konferenz 2007

Measuring Productivity Using the Infamous Lines of Code Metric

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Benedikt Mas y Parareda, Markus Pizka

APSEC 2007, SPACE Workshop, Nagoya, Japan, 2007

Similarity in Programs

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Markus Pizka, Jürgen Wolff von Gudenberg, Andrew Walenstein, Mohammad El-Ramly, James R. Cordy, William S. Evans, Kiarash Mahdavi, Ganesan Ramalingam

Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software, 2007

Reengineering Web-basierter und anderer junger Systeme

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Benedikt Mas y Parareda, Markus Pizka

Technical Report, itestra GmbH, October 2006

The Language Evolver Lever

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Markus Pizka, Elmar Jürgens

Sixth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2006), Vienna, April 2006

Goal-Driven Software Development

Ingo Schnabel, Markus Pizka

30th Annual IEEE/NASA Goddard Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-30 2006), Columbia, MD, April 2006

Projekt PQL Qualitätsmodell

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Markus Pizka, Florian Deissenböck

TU München, February 2006

Demystifying Maintainability

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Manfred Broy, Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Software Quality, Shanghai, 2006, ACM Press

Concise and consistent naming

Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka

Software Quality Journal, 2006, 14, 261-282

A Holistic Approach to Software Quality at Work

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Manfred Broy, Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka

3rd World Conference for Software Quality (3WCSQ), Munich, September 2005

Tool Support for Continuous Quality Assessment

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Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert

IEEE International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP 2005), Budapest, September 2005

Constituting the Need for Flexibility in Distributed Operating Systems

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Markus Pizka, Christian Rehn

Proceedings of PDPTA, Las Vegas, July 2005, CSREA Press

Workshop Hot Spots der Software-Entwicklung - Service-Orientierte Architekturen

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Tilman Seifert, Markus Pizka, Gerd Beneken, Marco Kuhrmann

TU München, VSEK/035/D, July 2005

Validating Documentation With Domain Ontologies

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Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka

Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension, St. Louis, MO, May 2005

Code Normal Forms

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Markus Pizka

29th Annual IEEE/NASA Goddard Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29 2005), April 2005

Der Beitrag freier Software zur Software-Evolution

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Markus Pizka, Andreas Bauer

Open Source Jahrbuch 2005, Lehmanns Media, Berlin, March 2005

Erfolgreiches Management von Software-Projekten

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Karl-Rudolf Moll, Manfred Broy, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert, Klaus Bergner, Andreas Rausch

Informatik Spektrum, 267(5): 419-432, October 2004

A Brief Top-Down and Bottom-Up Philosophy on Software Evolution

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Markus Pizka, Andreas Bauer

Proceedings of IWPSE, Kyoto, Japan, September 2004, IEEE Computer Society

Straightening Spaghetti-Code with Refactoring?

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Markus Pizka

Proceedings of SERP, pp. 846-852, Las Vegas, June 2004, CSREA Press

Adaptation of Large-Scale Open Source Software

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Markus Pizka

Proceedings of 8th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Tampere, March 2004, IEEE Computer Society

Das Einmaleins der Softwareentwicklung

Karl-Rudolf Moll, Manfred Broy, Markus Pizka, Tilman Seifert, Klaus Bergner, Andreas Rausch

Computerwoche (40), October 2003

Refactoring in Langzeitprojekten

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Elena Kolodizki, Martin Ober, Markus Pizka

VISEK 039/D, TU München, msg systems AG, October 2003

Supporting Software-Evolution at the Process Level

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Tilman Seifert, Markus Pizka

Net.ObjectDays 2003, Erfurt, September 2003

The Contribution of Free Software to Software Evolution

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Andreas Bauer, Markus Pizka

Proceedings of IWPSE, Helsinki, September 2003, IEEE Computer Society

Advances in Learning Software Organizations

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Raimund L. Feldmann, Markus Pizka

4th International Workshop LSO 2002, LNCS, pp. 34-43, Chicago, August 2003, Springer-Verlag

Success and Failure of 1000 First Semester CS Students

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Markus Pizka, Manfred Broy

Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2003), pp. 771-776, Rhodes, Greece, June 2003

Process Improvement in Large-Scale Industrial Environments Based on SCM

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Tilman Seifert, Markus Pizka, Karlheinz Raith

Proceedings of SERP, Volume I, pp. 246-249, Las Vegas, June 2003, CSREA Press

Improving Distributed OS Performance by Flexible Incremental Linking

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Markus Pizka

Proceedings of PDPTA, Volume IV, pp. 1579-1585, Las Vegas, June 2003, CSREA Press

Workshop Agile Methodologies Experience

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Markus Pizka, Bernhard Rumpe, Tilman Seifert

VISEK 014/E, TU München, November 2002

STA - A Conceptual Model for System Evolution

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Markus Pizka

International Conference on Software Maintenance, pp. 462-469, Montreal, October 2002, IEEE CS Press

Dynamic Component and Code Co-Evolution

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Markus Pizka

5th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2002), pp. 71-75, Orlando, FL, May 2002, ACM SIGSOFT

Heaps and Stacks in Distributed Shared Memory

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Markus Pizka, Christian Rehn

16th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Ft. Lauderdale, April 2002, IEEE Computer Society

Murks - A POSIX Threads Based DSM System

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Markus Pizka, Christian Rehn

Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), pp. 642-648, Anaheim, CA, August 2001, ACTA Press

Flexible Distributed and Adaptive Resource Management

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P. P. Spies, C. Eckert, M. Pizka, C. Czech, J. Geiger, C. Rehn

SFB 342, in conjunction with EuroPar 2000, Munich, August 2000

Thread Segment Stacks

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Markus Pizka

Proceedings of PDPTA, Las Vegas, June 1999, CSREA Press

BOPS - Balancing Objects and Pages in a Shared Space

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Christian Rehn, Markus Pizka

Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Software Distributed Shared Memory (WSDSM '99), Rhodes, June 1999

Improving Resource Management in Distributed Systems using Language-Level Structuring Concepts

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C. Eckert, M. Pizka

The Journal of Supercomputing, 13(1): 33-55, January 1999

Distributed Caching and Replication, Introduction to the Minitrack

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Oliver Theel, Markus Pizka

Proceedings of 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32), January 1999

Distributed Virtual Address Space Management in the MoDiS-OS

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Markus Pizka

Technical Report TUM-I9817, TU München, 1998

Shadow Stacks - A Hardware-Supported DSM for Objects of any Granularity

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S. Groh, M. Pizka, J. Rudolph

Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Conference on Algorithms & Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP'97), World Scientific, December 1997

Evolving Software Tools for New Distributed Computing Environments

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M. Pizka, C. Eckert, S. Groh

Proceedings of PDPTA, pp. 87-96, Las Vegas, July 1997, CSREA Press

A Different Approach to Resource Management for Distributed Systems

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S. Groh, M. Pizka

Proceedings of PDPTA, Las Vegas, July 1997, CSREA Press

Design and Implementation of the Gnu Insel-Compiler Gic

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Markus Pizka

Technical Report TUM-I9713, TU München, 1997