Newsletter August 2014
Contents Directors Messge How Lean and Agile are You? Inaugural J.E. Cairnes PhD Colloquium Fidelity Investments and Lero
Director’s Message Welcome to the summer issue of the Lero newsletter. In this issue you’ll learn of the several exciting workshops and events that Lero has been involved in over the last couple of months, as well as the highly successful Scratch competition. There are also short articles detailing visits and company interactions that took place and a list of recent Lero publications. Well done to everyone on these great achievements. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you an enjoyable summer and I look forward to seeing you in Athlone in September. Best wishes,
Professor Mike Hinchey
Annual Lero-NII-OU Workshop
Director
New Journal 2014 EuroSPI IFIP TC2
Impact Industry Award
Scratch 2014 Two’s Company Control in Software Project Portfolios Lero Awards in 2014 Best Paper at SEAMS 2014 Software Processes for a Changing World Dr Ita Richardson Visits China Welcome to Lero Publications so far in 2014
Fidelity Investments and Lero By invitation Dr. Orla O’Dwyer presented the results from a recent study on project portfolio management to an internal audience of over 70 staff from Fidelity Investments across Ireland, in April. Those attending the event consisted of project managers, program managers, portfolio managers, resource managers and representatives from the PMO (project management office). This was the first in a series of monthly internal events aimed at training and educating project, program and portfolio managers
Trevor Clohessy, PhD student with the EVOSS research group, won the Industry Impact Award as part of NUI Galway President’s Research Awards for Research at the University’s Research Showcase, for his work entitled ‘Strategising Cloud Service Provision: Deciphering the Business Model’. Trevor is part of Whitaker and Lero’s EVOSS group led by Dr. Kieran Conboy, and his supervisors are Dr. Tom Acton and Dr. Lorraine Morgan. http://evoss.lero.ie/
How Lean and Agile are You? Orla O’Dwyer, Kieran Conboy (Lero) and Deirdre Giblin (Ericsson) presented at an Irish Software Innovation Network (ISIN) event in Dublin on April 4th.The event focused on leading edge research and practice in agile project and portfolio management. Deirdre Giblin (Agile Line Manager, Ericsson) shared the experiences of Ericsson in relation to the project management of large scale agile projects. The event was attended by 50 people from companies such as Fineos, Unum and Aspire Technology
Inaugural J.E. Cairnes PhD Colloquium NUI Galway Lero doctoral researchers Eoin Cullina, Roger Sweetman and Trevor Clohessy presented the latest findings from their PhD research at the inaugural J.E. Cairnes PhD Colloquium on Friday 11th April
Urban Mobility Simulation Dr Anthony Ventresque has been awarded an SFI Industry Fellowship of €110,000 to work in collaboration with IBM Research Lab in Dublin on performance improvement of Urban Mobility Simulation. This project is related to the fast and accurate simulation of what-if scenarios in the application area of Smarter Transportation. Transport Mobility Simulation is a very computationally expensive process; however, applications of this technology require super fast solutions which are largely unavailable. This project will help to realise the goals of city traffic operators and urban planners who are interested in answering questions such as ‘what will be the impact on congestion levels in the next 30 minutes if we close this lane?’ or ‘would adding an additional lane to the M50 address Dublin’s transportation needs in the next few years?’
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