Pekka Abrahamsson

Self-organized Learning in Software Factory: Experiences and Lessons Learned

A set of themes that can potentially explain self-organization from the learning viewpoint are identified, which include self-decided learning goals and personalized learning outcomes, peer teaching through active collaboration, diversity is the key and the personal attitude towards the learning matters.

Prototyping of Tangible Programming

This paper presents a meta-journey of a SIMULTANEOUS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT and DESIGN JOURNEY – REFLECTIONS on PROTOTYPING, aSIMULTANEous, multi-idisciplinary, mixed-use development and design journal, a year after its publication.

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.

What Can Software Startuppers Learn from the Artistic Design Flow? Experiences, Reflections and Future Avenues

This paper aims contributing to this gap by studying the artistic design flow and the tools utilized by architects, industrial designers and artists, and proposes concrete ways to improve the current state-of-practice.

Perceived Effects of Pair Programming in an Industrial Context

Agile Software Development of Mobile Information Systems

The need for agile methods in the focal domain is presented, their shortcomings are identified on the basis of three large-scale case studies from industry and all of the cases deal with the development of mobile information system.

A Comparative Case Study on the Impact of Test-Driven Development on Program Design and Test Coverage

The results show that the effect of TDD on program design was not as evident as expected, but the test coverage was significantly superior to iterative test-last development.

Perspectives on Global Software Development: special issue on PROFES 2007

The Profes conference series was established in 1999 to provide a venue for industry and academia to present and discuss the shift from model-based improvement to a product-oriented perspective in the field of software engineering and software process improvement, which includes a context-oriented understanding of the process-product relationships.

A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team

Results indicate that refactoring not only increases aspects of software quality, but also improves productivity and is applicable to small teams working in similar, highly volatile domains.

‘Lots done, more to do’: the current state of agile systems development research

Agile research has lagged behind practice, as is often the case with new and emerging phenomena in Information Systems Development (ISD).

Failure Prediction using the Cox Proportional Hazard Model

Log messages are proposed to be used to predict failures running devices that read log files of running application and warns about the likely failure of the system; the prediction is based on the Cox Proportional Hazards (PH) model that has been applied successfully in various fields of research.

Making the leap to a software platform strategy: Issues and challenges

A comprehensive taxonomy of the challenges faced when a medium-scale organization decided to adopt software platforms is provided, namely: business challenges, organizational challenges, technical challenges, and people challenges.