Fabian Fagerholm

The set-up of a software engineering research infrastructure of the 2010s

The Software Factory of today is not intellectually following the earlier undertakings with the same name stemming back in 1980s in Japan or in the US, but represents the software development of the 2010s.

Building blocks for self-organizing software development teams a framework model and empirical pilot study

On the Impact of Kanban on Software Project Work: An Empirical Case Study Investigation

Performance Alignment Work: How software developers experience the continuous adaptation of team performance in Lean and Agile environments

This paper aims to understand how software developers experience the continuous adaptation of performance in a modern, highly volatile environment using Lean and Agile software development methodology and generates a grounded theory, Performance Alignment Work, showing howSoftware developers experience performance.

Online appendix: the happiness of software developers

On the Unhappiness of Software Developers

The results indicate that software developers are a slightly happy population, but the need for limiting the unhappiness of developers remains, and 219 factors representing causes of unhappiness while developing software are identified.

Consequences of Unhappiness while Developing Software

Using qualitative data analysis of the responses given by 181 questionnaire participants, a classification scheme is identified of 49 consequences of unhappiness while doing software development that have detrimental consequences on developers' mental well-being, the software development process, and the produced artifacts.

What happens when software developers are (un)happy

Consequences of happiness and unhappiness that are beneficial and detrimental for developers' mental well-being, the software development process, and the produced artifacts are found.

Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, Bad for Process, and Bad for Software Product

The first results from a study exploring the consequences of the unhappy developers are presented, and it is predicted that the classification scheme identified will spawn new happiness studies linking causes and effects and can act as a guideline for developers and managers to foster happiness at work.