Jürgen Münch is a Professor of Software Engineering and Innovation at Reutlingen University, Germany. In addition, he is head of the Software Engineering Research group at the Herman Hollerith Center in Böblingen, Germany. From 2011-2015 Jürgen Münch has been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, head of its Software Systems Engineering Research group, and a principal investigator of the experimental R&D laboratory “Software Factory”. His research centers on software startups, lean product management, lean analytics, innovation processes, business model validation, and agile engineering. Dr. Münch has been a principal investigator of numerous research and industrial development projects. Prior to his current position, Dr. Münch was a division head at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he was responsible for research and technology transfer in the area of software process and quality engineering. He was also project leader and executive board member of the temporary research institute Sonderforschungsbereich 501 at the University of Kaiserslautern. Dr. Münch has been awarded the Distinguished Professor Award FiDiPro (endowed with €1.900.000) of Tekes, the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software Theory and Practice, several best paper awards, and a technology innovation award. He has been chair of several renowned software engineering conferences such as the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM).