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Publications
Here it is possible to download some articles that have been published in
journals, proceedings, and books.
Extending FeatuRSEB with Concepts
from Systems Engineering
Recent work in systems engineering led us to introduce some of the concepts and
diagrams found in SysML into the feature-oriented domain analysis method
FeatuRSEB. Business Register Interoperability
Throughout Europe: The BRITE Project
The aim of BRITE, a project in which I have been Deputy Coordinator, is to
exploit Semantic Web technologies in order to enable interoperation in a
transnational scenario of processes between institutions concerning the
registration of businesses in the European Union. Efficient
Markets, Efficient Projects, and Predicting the Future
A paper from the fifth international conference on agile methods in June 2004
that explores an intriguing analogy between the way information is disseminated
and acted upon in the capital markets and the dynamics of agile software
development projects. Guest
Editor Introduction to Special Issue of IEEE Software on Software ROI
Together with my colleagues Wolfgang Strigel and Hakan Erdogmus, I was a Guest
Editor of a special issue of IEEE Software (May/June 2004) entitled
"Return on Investment in the Software Industry." This is our
introductory article. The
Agile Theater
Published in December 2003, it describes the ongoing Agile Theater Project,
using improvisational theater techniques for addressing human factors aspects of
individual and team dynamics in software development. Value Based Management
and Agile Methods
Written for the fourth international conference on agile methods in the spring
of 2003, this article provides a step by step description of value based IT
management and how it fits into the agile context. There is also a detailed
explanation of the Economic Profit metric as a financial analogue to the
operational metric known as software-in-process found in XP and in Lean Management. Managing
Requirements for Business Value
This was a column in IEEE Software in the spring of 2002, discussing a
fundamental consequence of value-based thinking: the purpose of requirements
management is to increase value. Extreme
Programming and the Economics of Flexibility
Written with my colleague Hakan Erdogmus, this article appeared as a chapter in
a book arising from the second international conference on Extreme Programming
in 2001. It delves into the theory of options in great detail and presents a
number of examples inspired by the principles and practices of agile methods. Managing
IT for Value
Written in 1999 as an invited paper for the Polish national software engineering
conference, this article introduced the concept of managing for strategic
options. It is written at the managerial level, presenting the results of a
number of case studies without descending into the details of the analyses. It
also contains the first reference to the work I did with Beck on linking options
to the techniques of Extreme Programming. Strategic
Analysis of Application Framework Investments
In this article, which appeared as a chapter in a book on enterprise application
frameworks, the emphasis tips firmly over to the strategic principles of value
based management applied to IT investment. In the second half of the article,
more examples of valuations based on real options are provided. Value Based Software Reuse Investment
This article picked up where the previous one left off, rounding out
the discussion of traditional valuation and introducing advanced valuation
techniques from option pricing theory, using examples from software reuse
infrastructure investment. A brief synopsis of the principles of value based
management applied to IT investment is provided at the end. A Comparison of Approaches to Reuse Investment Analysis
This paper was conceived as a first building block in what was to be a series of
articles for software engineers on valuation. A comparison was made of several
commonly used techniques, each of which had been cited in the literature on software
reuse economics. Value based management is mentioned only briefly.
When the Pursuit of Quality Destroys Value
This article, appearing as a column in IEEE Software in 1996, introduced
the value-based way of thinking as it applies to programs of quality and the
concept of customer satisfaction. It provoked a lively discussion at the time,
both for and against. Adding
Feature Modeling to the RSEB
This article describes work done with my colleagues Martin Griss of H-P labs and
Massimo d'Alessandro on extending the Reuse-Driven Software Engineering Business
(RSEB) with facilities for feature-oriented domain analysis.
FODAcom: An Experience with Domain
Analysis in the Italian Telecom Industry
Feature-Oriented Domain Analysis has been the inspiration for a number of
variants, customized for specific sectors, as in this case for the
telecommunications industry.
Z39.50
and the World Wide Web
This article written by my colleague Sebastian Hammer and myself on the
relationship between the Z39.50 protocol and Web has turned out to have a
remarkable resilience in the Library Sciences community. Here is a link to it at
its home at the D-LIB online digital library magazine.
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