Philippe Krief is a Senior Software Architect at the IBM Rational Paris Laboratory in Toulouse, France. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Paris. Philippe has over 25 years of industry experience at IBM and elsewhere. He has held a variety of technical and management positions developing products in automotive, embedded software, banking, and the insurance industries with a special focus on application development tools. Philippe is a committer for the Eclipse/eRCP project. In June 2006 he joined the Jazz Jumpstart team to assist world wide customers in the adoption and deployment of the Rational Team Concert product which is based on.the Jazz platform.