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  • Architecting Product Lines for Cloud Infrastructure!

    It was a privilege to convince Dr. Dirk Muthig to visit ITU, Copenhagen and share his recent work at the Lufthansa Systems’ business unit “Airline Solutions. Dirk has been a thought leader and practical implementer in the area of software product lines for many years. It was the second time, he agreed to visit us…

  • Ulrik Eklund will speak on the “Role of Architect”

    I’m very pleased to say that long time architect turned academic Dr. Ulrik Eklund will be speaking on the “Role of Architect” as a guest lecture in my course on software architecture on the evening of October 21, 2013 at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ulrik worked for Volvo Car Corporation for long time…

  • Hosting a Guest Lecture on SOA

    For my software architecture course at ITU Copenhagen, I usually try to provide the students with as many opportunities of listening and following software architecture in practice as possible. This year’s offering of the course also involves a number of guest lectures to be given by people with significant amount of industrial experience of software…

  • Tales of Migrating to Clouds

    Yesterday, it was a great experience to be at MESOCA 2013 (the 7th IEEE International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I was there to give an invited talk and join the organising committee of the next year’s symposium. My talk (Slides here) was aimed at sharing our findings coming…

  • The Key Objectives and Attractions of NordiCloud 2013

    Given the increasing relevance and popularity of cloud computing and lack of region specific community platforms for sharing ideas and knowledge, we founded a community platform for Nordic and Baltic countries to support collaboration in order to gain understanding of and solutions to socio-technical challenges of different aspects of cloud computing. That community platform was…

  • Process Support for Migrating to Clouds

    I have been invited to give a talk at MESOCA 2013 (the 7th IEEE International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems, which will be collocated with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013). I am very much looking forward to the symposium as I expect to meet and listen…

  • Extended Team Model in GSD and Structures

    We have been researching the theoretical concepts and practical implementation of Extended Team Model in Global Software Development (GSD) arrangements. This research has been motivated by the increasing popularity of developing software involving cross-organizational teams that are characterised by all sorts of distances (e.g., geographical, cultural, temporal, and knowledge). While there is plenty of literature…

  • Initial Evaluation of ABC4GSD

    As I have shared on these pages that we are trying to build an infrastructure based on the principles of Activity Based Computing (ABC), a paradigm that is being increasingly explored for designing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and software application inspired by Activity Theory (AT). This work  has resulted in an infrastructure, called ABC4GSD, for…

  • Contextual Customisation of Agile Methods for GSD

    Popularity of Agile methods and wide spread adoption of different forms of Global Software Development (GSD) have been encouraging several efforts aimed at exploring the potential advantages and disadvantages of applying Agile methods in GSD arrangements. Several research and industrial efforts and their outcomes aimed at combining Agile and GSD have been published in scientific…

  • Perspectives and Reflections on NordiCloud 2012

    Its really great that the second gathering of the NordiCloud symposium will be held in Oslo Norway at the beginning of September (2-3 September, 2013). This platform for knowledge generating and sharing was founded last year with the  key aim of promoting and supporting Cloud computing and Internet Technologies research and practice in Nordic and…