Anh Nguyen-Duc

Can Large Language Models Serve as Data Analysts? A Multi-Agent Assisted Approach for Qualitative Data Analysis

The proposed LLM-based multi-agent system automates qualitative data analysis process, creating opportunities for researchers and practitioners, and future improvements focus on enhancing multilingual performance and integrating continuous expert feedback.

Autonomous Agents in Software Development: A Vision Paper

The vision is to leverage the capabilities of multiple GPT agents to contribute to SE tasks and to propose an initial road map for future work, arguing that multiple G PT agents can perform creative and demanding tasks far beyond coding and debugging.

Hunter-gatherer cycle: a conceptual model of the evolution of software startups

The results show that the proposed conceptual model can capture innovation generation activities and the non-linear evolution of engineering activities in software startups, which is not presentable in current software life cycle models.

Towards an Early Stage Software Startups Evolution Model

Start-Ups Must Be Ready to Pivot

Security challenges in IoT development: a software engineering perspective

The preliminary finding results in a list of 17 security challenges with regards to technical, organizational and methodological perspectives, which provides initial explanation about the less emphasis on methodological and organizational security concerns in cases.

A preliminary study of agility in business and production: cases of early-stage hardware startups

It is found that agile development is known to hardware entrepreneurs, however it is limitedly adopted, and four categories of tactics are found that enable hardware startups agile in their early stage business and product development.

The Essence Theory of Software Engineering - Large-Scale Classroom Experiences from 450+ Software Engineering BSc Students

This paper studies Essence in an educational setting to evaluate its usefulness for software engineering students while also investigating barriers to its adoption in this context.

Do software firms collaborate or compete? A model of coopetition in community-initiated OSS projects

A conceptual model to explain for coop competition among software firms in OSS projects is proposed and shows two aspects of coopetition can be managed at the same time based on firm gatekeepers.

100+ metrics for software startups - A multi-vocal literature review

A multi-vocal literature review focusing on practitioner literature is conducted in order to compile a list of metrics used by software startups, intended to serve as a basis for further research in the area.

A Tool-Based Approach for Essentializing Software Engineering Practices

Software Engineers work using highly diverse methods and practices, and general theories in software engineering are lacking. A recent attempt at creating a common ground in the area of software engineering methodologies has been the Essence Theory of Software Engineering. Essence is a method-agnostic progress management framework and a meta-method for Software Engineering (SE). However, tooling for Essence is still lacking. Without dedicated tools and other instruments, a meta-method such as Essence is cumbersome to utilize by practitioners and students. Indeed, Essence currently suffers from a lack of widespread practitioner adoption. In this paper, we thus present an Open Source tool for essentializing methods and practices: Essencery. We conduct a qualitative evaluation of the tool through a quasi-formal experiment and a set of semi-structured interviews. Based on this data, we improve Essencery iteratively before it is utilized in a large-scale project-based course as a proof of concept.

Software Business: 10th International Conference, ICSOB 2019, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 18–20, 2019, Proceedings

An overview of the trends driving the transition to focusing on effectiveness is provided, the challenges that companies experience as well as the requirements for a successful transformation are discussed.