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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 10th International Conference, PROFES 2009, Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009. Proceedings

Exploring the Sources of Waste in Kanban Software Development Projects

The application of agile software methods and more recently the integration of Lean practices contribute to the trend of continuous improvement in the software industry. One such area warranting proper empirical evidence is a project’s operational efficiency when using the Kanban method. This short paper takes a new angle and explores waste in the Kanban-driven software development project context. A preliminary research model is presented for helping the consequent replication of the study. The results from the empirical analysis suggest Kanban can be an effective method in visualizing and organizing the current work, but does not prevent waste from creeping in, although the overall project outcome may be successful.

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

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

Lean Enterprise Software and Systems - First International Conference, LESS 2010, Helsinki, Finland, October 17-20, 2010. Proceedings

Anticipating Success of a Business-Critical Software Project: A Comparative Case Study of Waterfall and Agile Approaches

Operationalizing the Concept of Success in Software Engineering Projects

Analyzing tool usage to understand to what extent experts change their activities when mentoring

Software product roadmapping in a volatile business environment

Product roadmapping enhances the product development process by enabling early information and long-term decision making about the products in order to deliver the right products to the right markets at the right time. However, relatively little scientific knowledge is available on the application and usefulness of product roadmapping in software product development context. This study develops a framework for software product roadmapping, which is then used to study the critical aspects of the product roadmapping process. The collection of empirical evidence includes both quantitative and qualitative data which sheds further insight into the complexities involved in product roadmapping. Results revealed that organizations view the product roadmap mainly as a tool for strategic decision making as it aims at showing the future directions of the company's products. However, only a few companies appear to have an explicit approach for handling the mechanisms for creating and maintaining such a roadmap. Finally, it is suggested that the strategic importance of product roadmapping is likely to increase in the future and, as a conclusion, a new type of agility is required in order to survive in the turbulent and competitive software business environment.

VOIVATKO HAJAUTETUT PROJEKTIT MISSÄÄN OLOSUHTEISSA ONNISTUA

Agile methods rapidly replacing traditional methods at Nokia: A survey of opinions on agile transformation

Predicting Development Effort from User Stories

In this paper, we propose a method for predicting development effort based on user stories. Such approach is well suited for Agile software projects where requirements are developed along with the project and only sketched in a rough manner. We apply the proposed method to two industrial Agile software projects of very different size and structure. We show that such effort estimation works reasonably well if user stories are written in a structured way.