Pekka Abrahamsson

The Interaction Between Organizational Subcultures and User-Centered Design - A Case Study of an Implementation Effort

The results indicate that there exist differences in the views of the nature of UCD, and in the motives for implementing it, in the experiences gained and interpretations made of the use of it in relation to each subculture.

The interaction between organizational subcultures and user-centered design-a case study of an implementation effort

The role of commitment in software process improvement

This thesis suggests that the commitment phenomenon is better explained through what can be called strategic, operational and personal commitment nets, which can be used for analyzing the unfolding and alteration of commitment towards a specific entity, in this case a software process improvement endeavor, through time...

Personal Software Process: Classroom Experiences from Finland

Results from the University of Oulu in Finland, where PSP is a mandatory course for students majoring in software engineering, do not indicate a significant improvement in size or effort estimation skills, but the defects found in the unit test phase were decreased.

Supporting requirements engineering in extreme programming: managing user stories

The objective of this paper is to examine the challenges involved in the requirements management in an XP project, and to study possibilities to integrate the support for user story management into single tool framework.

Extreme programming: first results from a controlled case study

Evolutionary product line modelling

This work proposes an evolutionary software product line modelling approach based on controllable inheritance of product line members specifications that uses hierarchies of implemented product specifications accompanied by correctness control of product model transformations.

Digging into the fundamentals of extreme programming building the theoretical base for agile methods

Preface Agile Software Technologies Software Process Engineering Software Confi Guration Management Support for Extreme Programming Software Process Engineering

This report summarises the main research and development activities carried out on Embedded Software at VTT Electronics in 2002 and aims to enable the industry to utilize the change-driven (i.e., Agile) product …

Experimental software engineering (STESE)

Software engineering theory and practice is still to a large extent based more on faith than on science. Only by contributing to the scientific and empirically grounded body of knowledge within a specific area of application, theory and practice can develop. Experimentation is an important scientific approach to collec...

Development Essentially an Agile Method ?

The study shows that while from a legal perspective the OSS development paradigm could be seen more as a licensing structure exploiting the terms of the General Public License or similar, the O SS does in many ways follow the same lines of thought and practices as the main stream of existing agile methods.

Is Open Source Software Development Essentially an Agile Method

The study shows that while from a legal perspective the OSS development paradigm could be seen more as a licensing structure exploiting the terms of the General Public License or similar, the O SS does in many ways follow the same lines of thought and practices as the main stream of existing agile methods.