The prosperity of many businesses and institutions is strongly related to a high quality, cost-effective and fast development of application software. Oliver Skroch argues that the reuse of components and services counts among the few fundamental and most promising approaches when pursuing these objectives. He presents research results related to strategic, tactic, and operational ranges of consideration in component- and service-oriented software development.

Dr. Oliver Skroch earned his doctoral degree from the Chair of Business Informatics and Systems Engineering, Universität Augsburg, Germany. He is an independent software engineer, consultant, manager, and expert witness with more than 15 years of relevant professional expertise and management experience worldwide.