Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shifting software engineering from tool-supported processes towards AI-first collaboration, where authority is dynamically distributed across human and artificial actors. However, existing method engineering approaches assume static, human-centric control and provide limited support explicitly capturing evolving autonomy. This paper presents a vision for autonomy-aware method engineering by proposing a metamodel that treats autonomy not as a fixed property of an actor, but as a derived, situation-dependent authority assignment determined by task, context, and collaboration pattern. The metamodel formalizes autonomy through four authority dimensions: task execution, task decomposition, task initiation, and collaboration reconfiguration. Through an analytical instantiation with a multi-agent requirements analysis tool, we illustrate how the metamodel supports dynamic authority assignment. This work provides a conceptual foundation for governance-aware, adaptable, and AI-first software engineering methods.
The ITEA AGILE project shows that the application of agile software development methods and processes can offer an up to 70% reduction in lead time and costs in a wide range of different industry sectors.
Literature and practice has established that the lack of management commitment has been one of the top reasons for a failed SPI (software process improvement) initiative. The paper reports results from an ongoing study aimed at clarifying the role and the meaning of management commitment in SPI initiatives. Results from five focused interviews with SPI professionals are reported together with results from 12 SPI initiatives where the level of management commitment (in terms of concrete signs) was measured in order to test whether it would correlate with the level of success of an SPI initiative. In contrast with the evidence from the literature, the results show that none of the signs of management commitment correlated significantly with the success of the SPI initiatives. It is suggested that the concept of champion may have explained the SPI project success better than management commitment. The paper concludes that many of the SPI initiatives do not require management commitment beyond obtaining the resources needed.
P. Abrahamsson· Proceedings of the 26th Euro...· 27 citations· ⚡2
It is shown that current thinking relies on models of commitment that are flawed in both academic and practical sense and four misconceptions are identified in current thinking.
P. Abrahamsson· Scandinavian Journal of Info...· 61 citations· ⚡5
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.
N. Iivari, P. Abrahamsson· Hawaii International Confere...· 0 citations
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 and changing circumstances.
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.
P. Abrahamsson, K. Kautz· European Conference on Softw...· 27 citations· ⚡3
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.
J. Kääriäinen, Juha Koskela, J. Takalo et al.· 5 citations
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