Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, magna cum laude
Technical University of Munich
International Summer School
Institute for Advanced Study
Diploma Computer Science
Technical University of Munich
Achievements & Awards
Over 70 international publications
10 Years Most Influential Paper Award
ICSME 2017
Most Influential Paper Award
ICPC 2015
Dr. Markus Pizka advises executive boards of leading companies on developing modern IT strategies. He also teaches at universities and drives digital innovation initiatives.
Previously, he conducted scientific research for ten years and published over 70 peer-reviewed papers on software maintenance, distributed systems, compilers, high-performance computing, operating systems, and open-source software. His focus is on strategic modernization of complex software landscapes and bridging computer science, economics, and industry expertise in insurance, banking, retail, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals.
As founder, shareholder, and managing director, he shapes the company’s strategic direction and development. He travels regularly and remains active in sports, drawing on his background as a competitive athlete.
Articles
Agentic AI in Software Project Management
Agentic AI is entering enterprise software delivery faster than the governance frameworks to manage it. Here's what project leads need to know before the next sprint.
The Hidden Speed Limit: Legacy Systems and AI Competitiveness
AI amplifies organizational velocity – rewarding those with modern foundations and exposing those without. Here's why Software Transformation is the prerequisite for AI competitiveness.
Your Legacy System Is Your Competitive Advantage
Most enterprises facing a core system overhaul see only two options: rebuild it themselves or buy a standard product. There is a smarter third path – and it starts with recognizing that your legacy system already contains decades of irreplaceable business logic.
Publications
All Publications on dblp.orgFlorian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka
Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension, St. Louis, MO, May 2005
Florian Deissenböck, Stefan Wagner, Markus Pizka, Jean-François Girad, Stefan Teuchert
Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2007), IEEE CS Press
A Language-Based Approach to Construct Structured and Efficient Object-Based Distributed Systems
Markus Pizka, Claudia Eckert
Proceedings of 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Volume 1, pp. 130-139, Maui, January 1997, IEEE CS Press
Wie verträgt sich Digitalisierung mit vorhandener (Alt-)Software
Markus Pizka
Objektforum München, 2017
Ricardo Perez-Castillo, Benedikt Mas, Markus Pizka
10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE), 2015
Jonathan Streit, Markus Pizka
Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Honolulu, May 2011
Establishing Economic Effectiveness through Software Health-Management
Markus Pizka, Thomas Panas
1st International Workshop on Software Health Management (SHM 2009), Pasadena, CA, July 2009
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
Jonathan Streit, Markus Pizka, Tobias Simon
Proceedings of SERP 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2008
Probabilistic Analysis of Process Economics
Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka
Software Process: Improvement and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Volume 13 Issue 1, January/February 2008
Software Engineering Services
Markus Pizka, Ingo Schnabel
2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Applied Computing, Las Vegas, June 2007
Automating Language Evolution
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
Markus Pizka, Florian Deissenböck
SMEF 2007 - 4th Software Measurement European Forum, Rome, May 2007
The Economic Impact of Software Process Variations
Markus Pizka, Florian Deissenböck
International Conference on Software Processes 2007, LNCS 4470, Minneapolis, Springer, May 2007
Tool-Supported Multi-Level Language Evolution
Elmar Jürgens, Markus Pizka
Software and Services Variability Management Workshop, Helsinki, April 2007
SOA2 Report - State of the Art Service-Orientierter Architekturen
Markus Pizka, Markus Eisele
Technical Report, msg systems AG, April 2007
Variability Models Must Not be Invariant!
Elmar Jürgens, Markus Pizka
First International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VAMOS), Limerick, January 2007
Kosten-basierte Klassifikation von Qualitätsanforderungen
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
Benedikt Mas y Parareda, Markus Pizka
APSEC 2007, SPACE Workshop, Nagoya, Japan, 2007
Similarity in Programs
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
Benedikt Mas y Parareda, Markus Pizka
Technical Report, itestra GmbH, October 2006
The Language Evolver Lever
Markus Pizka, Elmar Jürgens
Sixth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2006), Vienna, April 2006
Ingo Schnabel, Markus Pizka
30th Annual IEEE/NASA Goddard Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-30 2006), Columbia, MD, April 2006
Demystifying Maintainability
Manfred Broy, Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Software Quality, Shanghai, 2006, ACM Press
Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka
Software Quality Journal, 2006, 14, 261-282
A Holistic Approach to Software Quality at Work
Manfred Broy, Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka
3rd World Conference for Software Quality (3WCSQ), Munich, September 2005
Tool Support for Continuous Quality Assessment
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
Markus Pizka, Christian Rehn
Proceedings of PDPTA, Las Vegas, July 2005, CSREA Press
Workshop Hot Spots der Software-Entwicklung - Service-Orientierte Architekturen
Tilman Seifert, Markus Pizka, Gerd Beneken, Marco Kuhrmann
TU München, VSEK/035/D, July 2005
Validating Documentation With Domain Ontologies
Florian Deissenböck, Markus Pizka
Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension, St. Louis, MO, May 2005
Code Normal Forms
Markus Pizka
29th Annual IEEE/NASA Goddard Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29 2005), April 2005
Der Beitrag freier Software zur Software-Evolution
Markus Pizka, Andreas Bauer
Open Source Jahrbuch 2005, Lehmanns Media, Berlin, March 2005
Erfolgreiches Management von Software-Projekten
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
Markus Pizka, Andreas Bauer
Proceedings of IWPSE, Kyoto, Japan, September 2004, IEEE Computer Society
Straightening Spaghetti-Code with Refactoring?
Markus Pizka
Proceedings of SERP, pp. 846-852, Las Vegas, June 2004, CSREA Press
Adaptation of Large-Scale Open Source Software
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
Elena Kolodizki, Martin Ober, Markus Pizka
VISEK 039/D, TU München, msg systems AG, October 2003
Supporting Software-Evolution at the Process Level
Tilman Seifert, Markus Pizka
Net.ObjectDays 2003, Erfurt, September 2003
The Contribution of Free Software to Software Evolution
Andreas Bauer, Markus Pizka
Proceedings of IWPSE, Helsinki, September 2003, IEEE Computer Society
Advances in Learning Software Organizations
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
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
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
Markus Pizka
Proceedings of PDPTA, Volume IV, pp. 1579-1585, Las Vegas, June 2003, CSREA Press
Workshop Agile Methodologies Experience
Markus Pizka, Bernhard Rumpe, Tilman Seifert
VISEK 014/E, TU München, November 2002
STA - A Conceptual Model for System Evolution
Markus Pizka
International Conference on Software Maintenance, pp. 462-469, Montreal, October 2002, IEEE CS Press
Dynamic Component and Code Co-Evolution
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
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
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
P. P. Spies, C. Eckert, M. Pizka, C. Czech, J. Geiger, C. Rehn
SFB 342, in conjunction with EuroPar 2000, Munich, August 2000
BOPS - Balancing Objects and Pages in a Shared Space
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
C. Eckert, M. Pizka
The Journal of Supercomputing, 13(1): 33-55, January 1999
Distributed Caching and Replication, Introduction to the Minitrack
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
Markus Pizka
Technical Report TUM-I9817, TU München, 1998
Shadow Stacks - A Hardware-Supported DSM for Objects of any Granularity
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
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
S. Groh, M. Pizka
Proceedings of PDPTA, Las Vegas, July 1997, CSREA Press
Design and Implementation of the Gnu Insel-Compiler Gic
Markus Pizka
Technical Report TUM-I9713, TU München, 1997
Managing Director
& IT Strategy Consultant
Dr. Markus Pizka
PhD compiler technology expert, founder of itestra, over 20 years in IT strategy and modernization.