Pekka Abrahamsson

Lean Software Development

Does cloud computing deliver the promised benefits for IT industry?

This paper examines the perceived benefits of cloud computing from the cloud users' perspectives using content analysis techniques and proposes that the empirical insights gained are valuable to both researchers and practitioners.

Strengths and barriers behind the successful agile deployment—insights from the three software intensive companies in Finland

By identifying the barriers and strengths of agile deployment, the paper deepens understanding of this highly relevant but relatively under-researched phenomenon and contributes to the literature on agile deployment and software process improvement.

Definitions of Agile Software Development and Agility

The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles are typically referred to as the definitions of "agile" and "agility", but many other definitions exist in the literature that provide interesting source for research.

A Web Positioning System for SEMAT Essence theory of Software Engineering

SEMAT Accelerator is a web-positioning tool for a software project, which implements the Essence kernel and its elements, and enables teaching, adopting, and researching Essence in controlled experiments and case studies.

Improving Software Developer's Competence: Is the Personal Software Process Working?

Statistical data shows that the use of PSP did not improve size and time estima- tion skills but that the productivity did not decrease and the resulting product quality was improved.

Attaining High-performing Software Teams with Agile and Lean Practices: An Empirical Case Study

The main results indicate that self-organization as supported by certain Agile and Lean practices helps teams in achieving higher performance.

Exploring How Feature Usage Relates to Customer Perceived Value: A Case Study in a Startup Company

This paper investigates how usage of features relate to their perceived value and shed light into the factors affecting this relationship and shows that feature usage metric has a significant potential to estimate value of features.

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Cloud Computing

A conceptual framework of cloud computing benefits is proposed, based on various benefit taxonomies presented in the Information System literature, and accounts for the different business areas and organizational levels where each of the benefits manifests.

Feature Usage Diagram for Feature Reduction

A modelling notation, so called Feature Usage Diagram, and an approach to identify and visualize the required information for decision makers when reducing features, which has potential to support developers when making decisions for feature reduction.

Agile Project - An Oxymoron? Proposing an Unproject Leadership Model for Complex Space

This paper proposes a novel approach called the unproject leadership model, which translates and maps the specific complexity concepts to the software development domain, consolidating them with the contributions already achieved by the lean and agile literature.

Measuring the Success of Software Process Improvement: The Dimensions

Early results indicate that change agents valued the process user satisfaction the most and the process improvement fit the least, confirming the need of having various stakeholders and dimensions acknowledged in a framework that is used to measure the overall success of an SPI initiative.