Hi all,

Most welcome to a research seminar February 20th. I am very happy to present our guest – Dr. Christian Berger, assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His talk will report about findings from a joint project between Malmö University, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg that is run in the context of the Software Center. The project is driven by Ulrik Eklund from Malmö University and Christian Berger from University of Gothenburg.

We start at 13.15 in Aktersalongen and finish around 14.30.

Title:
“Expectations and Challenges from Scaling Agile in Mechatronics-Driven Companies”

Abstract:
Agile software development is increasingly adopted by companies evolving and maintaining software products to support better planning and tracking the realization of user stories and features. While convincing success stories help to further spread the adoption of Agile, mechatronics-driven companies need guidance to implement Agile for non-software teams. We report about a comparative case study conducted between three companies from the Nordic region, where we systematically investigated expectations and challenges from scaling Agile in organizations dealing with mechatronics development by conducting on-site workshops and surveys. Our findings show that all companies have already successfully implemented Agile in their software teams but challenges still remain especially when companies plan to scale Agile beyond the team level.

Bio:
Dr. Christian Berger is assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University, Germany in 2010 for his work on challenges for the software engineering for self-driving vehicles together with academic and industrial partners like University of California, Berkeley in California and Volkswagen Group. His expertise is on simulation engineering and model-based software engineering. He coordinated the interdisciplinary project for the development of the autonomously driving vehicle “Caroline”, which participated in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Final in the United States. Currently, he is coordinating a research initiative on self-driving vehicles at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is also coordinating the theme on “Continuous Delivery” in the Software Center.

Most welcome.

Regards,
Helena

PS This event is in the DV calendar (dv.ts@mah.se) and if you can’t see the event you have not included the DV-calendar correctly, please see instruction at link. DS