Andrea Janes is an associate professor at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. He was previously a senior lecturer and researcher at the FHV Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences in Dornbirn, Austria, and a researcher at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. He holds a Master's degree in Business Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology and a PhD in Computer Science (with honors) from the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He obtained a habilitation in Computer Science and Information processing systems He is particularly interested in Lean and Agile approaches to software engineering, value-based software engineering, empirical software engineering, software testing, and technology transfer.