Year 2020

• Scientific Collaboration, Citation and Topic Analysis of International Conference on Agile Software Development Papers

  Publication

  • M. Ahmad
  • P. Raulamo-jurvanen

  - Year 2020

  The International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP) was established almost sixteen years ago. Based on data from Scopus database, a total of 789 papers have been published in between years of 2002 and 2018. We employed bibliometrics analysis and topic modeling with R/RStudio to analyze these published papers from various dimensions, including the most active authors, collaboration of authorship, most cited papers, used...

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Year 2019

• Antecedents to Achieve Kanban Optimum Benefits in Software Companies

  Publication

  • M. Ahmad
  • A. Rohunen
  • P. Raulamo-jurvanen

  - Year 2019

  In 2004, Kanban successfully entered into the Agile and Lean realm. Since then software companies have been increasingly using it in software development teams. The goal of this study is to perform an empirical investigation on antecedents considered as important for achieving optimum benefits of Kanban use and to discuss the practical implications of the findings. We conducted an online survey with software professionals from...

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• Preliminary Citation and Topic Analysis of International Conference on Agile Software Development Papers (2002-2018)

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  • M. Ahmad

  - Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems - Year 2019

  This study utilizes citation analysis and automated topic analysis of papers published in International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP) from 2002 to 2018. We collected data from Scopus database, finding 789 XP papers. We performed topic and trend analysis with R/RStudio utilizing the text mining approach, and used MS Excel for the quantitative analysis of the data. The results show that the first five years of XP...

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• Software development methodologies and practices in start-ups

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  • M. Ahmad

  - IET Software - Year 2019

  Software start-ups are aiming to develop cutting-edge software products under highly uncertain conditions, overcoming fast-growing markets under multiple influences. This study aims to identify and analyse the existing scientific literature regarding software development methodologies and practices in software start-ups published between January 2006 and December 2017 using the systematic mapping study. The results identified 37...

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• Software Factory project for enhancement of student experiential learning

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  • M. Ahmad
  • K. Liukkunen

  - Year 2019

  Providing opportunities for students to work on real-world software development projects for real customers is critical to prepare students for the IT industry. Such projects help students to understand what they will face in the industry and experience real customer interaction and challenges in collaborative work. To provide this opportunity in an academic environment and enhance the learning and multicultural teamwork experience,...