The PhD defence will be partially digital, in Kristen Nygaards sal (5370), Ole-Johan Dahls hus and streamed directly using Zoom. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.
Ex auditorio questions: the chair of the defence will invite the attending audience at Kristen Nygaards sal to ask ex auditorio questions.
Trial lecture
- Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 10:00 Am in Zoom
- join trial lecture: "Software Effort Estimation"
Main research findings
- Our findings can enable organizations to be evidence-based when selecting management practices to achieve a higher return on investments in IT. We found a positive association with the realization of benefits when (i) organizations adopted the practices of re-estimating benefits, quantifying benefits realization, and identifying benefits beyond what is included in the initial business case; (ii) benefits had high quality descriptions, i.e., they: (a) had a clear description of what is to be achieved, (b) were measurable, (c) had people responsible for their realization, and (d) had well-founded benefits estimates; (iii) the business cases included certain types of benefits, as we found that (a) benefits planned to be realized by the project owner’s organizations were realized to a larger extent than benefits to be realized by others, (b) smaller benefits were realized to a larger extent than the larger ones, (c) non-monetized benefits were realized more than monetized ones; (iv) benefits owners had the ability to persuade and sell, had an understanding of user needs, and had a clear and powerful mandate. We also provide evidence of how activities to improve functionality to the end-user positively relate to the adoption of benefits management practices and the realization of benefits.
Adjudication committee:
- Professor Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Professor Bjørnar Tessem, University of Bergen, Norway
- Professor Paulo Ferreira, University of Oslo, Department of informatics Norway
Supervisors
- Professor Dag Sjøberg, Department of Informatics, UiO
- Professor Magne Jørgensen, Department of Informatics, UiO
Chair of defence
Candidate contact information: Professor Stephan Oepen
Contact information to Department: Mozhdeh Sheibani Harat