Jarno Vähäniitty
Lic. Sc. (Tech.)
M. Sc. (Tech.)
Researcher
Software Process Research Group,
Aalto University (formerly
known as Helsinki University of Technology)
Software Business and
Engineering Institute, Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, School
of Science
Research
Currently, I'm finishing my doctoral dissertation (download our book by the same title: "Towards Agile Product and Portfolio Management") . I am also responsible for coordinating the development of Agilefant - the #1 open source (MIT license) backlog management tool today.
In the past I have worked as the project manager of the Approach and Tool support for development portfolio MANagement (ATMAN, 2007-2010), Software product Health And Process Excellence (SHAPE, 2004-2007) and Software Engineering Management System (SEMS, 2001-2004) research projects, all of which have been funded by Tekes and the industry. See the projects' homepages and our publications for more information.
If you wish to know what I am research-wise up to, check out my latest research & publication plan.
Teaching
Currently, my teaching activities
are limited to occasional lecturing on agile product and portfolio management
on various courses at Aalto as well as to industry audiences, via e.g. ACLA.
In the Spring of 2005 I (together with Laura Lehtola from the CORE research project) organised a three-credit software engineering seminar on managing software product development. You can download the resulting set of seminar studies here.
Office Hours
To set up a meeting, please email me.
Hobbies and
Interests
If you would like to know more, take a look at my personal homepage.
Publications
Listed starting from the most recent ones; please see the pages of the ATMAN, SHAPE and SEMS projects for more of our team's publications.
- Vähäniitty,
Jarno. Draft
of the proposal for doctoral dissertation. Software Process Research
Group, SoberIT, Aalto University. (work in
progress, updated on a weekly basis)
- Heikkilä,
Rautiainen, & Vähäniitty (eds.) Towards
Agile Product and Portfolio Management. Espoo: Aalto University,
2010
- Vähäniitty,
Rautiainen & Lassenius: Small Software
Organizations Need Explicit Portfolio Management. IBM journal of Research
and Development , Vol. 54, No. 2
(Issue on Creating Business Value through Software Development), April
2010
- Vähäniitty,
Lassenius, Rautiainen & Pekkanen: Long-term Planning of Development
Efforts by Roadmapping - a Model and Experiences from a Small Software
Company (PDF,
presentation
slides). In the proceedings of Euromicro
2009 Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)
- Lehtola,
Kauppinen, Vähäniitty & Komssi: Linking
business and requirements engineering: is solution plannning a missing
activity in software product companies? Requirements engineering
journal, Special issue RE'07 best papers, Volume 14, Number 2 / June,
Springer-Verlag 2009
- Vähäniitty
& Rautiainen: Towards
a Conceptual Framework and Tool Support for Linking Long-term Product and
Business Planning with Agile Software Development. International
Workshop on Software Development Governance (SDG2008).
- Lehtola,
L. & Kauppinen M. & Vähäniitty, J. "Strengthening the
link from business decisions to requirements engineering: Long-term
product planning in software product companies". Proceedings
of the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
(RE'07), New Delhi, India, Oct 2007
- Vähäniitty,
J. "Do Small
Software Companies Need Portfolio Management?”. Proceedings of the
13th International Product Development Management Conference, Milan,
Italy, Jun 2006 (presentation
slides).
- Vähäniitty,
J. "Do Small Software
Companies Need Portfolio Management, Too?”. Licenciate Thesis,
Helsinki University of Technology, 2/2006.
- Kaarlas,
J. & Vähäniitty, J. "Tool
support for software product and release planning - requirements and
current solutions". Working paper, 8/2005
- Vähäniitty,
J. "A
Tentative Framework for Connecting Long-Term Business and Product Planning
with Iterative & Incremental Software Product Development".
In proceedings of the 7th International
Workshop on Economic-Driven Software Engineering Research
(EDSER-7) at ICSE 2005, St. Louis, USA, 2005 (presentation
slides)
- Vähäniitty,
J & Rautiainen, K. "Towards
an Approach for Development Portfolio Management in Small Product-Oriented
Software Companies". In proceedings of Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38), Jan 2005. (presentation
slides)
- Vähäniitty,
J. "Product
Portfolio Management in Small Software Product Businesses - a Tentative
Research Agenda". In proceedings of the 6th
International Workshop on Economic-Driven Software Engineering Research
(EDSER-6) at ICSE 2004, pp. 48-52, Edinburgh, 2004. (presentation
slides)
- Vähäniitty,
J.: "Commercial Product Management" and "Pipeline
Management"; Rautiainen, K. & Vähäniitty, J.: "An
Introduction to the SEMS Approach". Chapters in "Pacing Software
Product Development: A Framework and Practical Implementation
Guidelines". eds. Rautiainen, K., and C. Lassenius. Helsinki
University of Technology Software Business and Engineering Institute
Technical Reports 3, pp. 23-49. Helsinki, 2004 (electronic
edition of the book published 9/2006)
- Vähäniitty,
J. "Key Decisions in
Strategic New Product Development for Small Software Product Businesses".
EUROMICRO 2003, Software Process and Product Improvement Track / Software
Engineering in Small and Very Small Enterprises, Antalya, Turkey, 2003. (presentation
slides).
- Vähäniitty,
J. "Business-Driven
New Product Development Process Improvement in Small Software Product
Businesses - Theory and a Research Approach". EUROMICRO 2003,
Software Process and Product Improvement Track / Work-in-Progress session,
Antalya, Turkey, 2003. (presentation
slides)
- Vähäniitty,
J. "Product Strategy
Decisions in Small Software Product Businesses - a Framework and
Experiences". Master's Thesis, Helsinki University of
Technology, Institute of Software Business and Engineering, 2003.
- Vähäniitty,
J., Lassenius, C., & Rautiainen, K. "An Approach to Product
Roadmapping in Small Software Product Businesses", Quality
Connection - 7th European Conference on Software Quality - Conference
Notes, pp. 12-13, (2002)
- Rautiainen,
K., Lassenius, C., Vähäniitty, J., Vanhanen, J., & Pyhäjärvi, M.
"A Tentative Framework for
Managing Software Product Development in Small Companies",
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35), 2002.
Involvement in the
research community
Program committee member of the 2nd International Workshop of Software Product Management (9.9.2008)
Program committee member of the Software Process and Product Improvement
track of the 33nd EUROMICRO
Conference on
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (27.-31.8.2007)
Program committee member of the Software Process and Product Improvement
track of the 32nd
EUROMICRO Conference on
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (29.8.-1.9.2006)
Program committee member of the Software Process and Product Improvement
track of the 31st
EUROMICRO Conference on
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (30.8.-3.9.2005)
Program committee member of the Software Process and Product Improvement
track of the 30th
EUROMICRO Conference on
Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (1.-3.9.2004)
Contact information
E-mail: jarno.vahaniitty@soberit.hut.fi
Phone: +358 50 386 2777
Fax: + 358 9 451 4958
Visiting
address:
Tekniikantie 14, Espoo
Innopoli 2, 4th floor
Agilefant Research Bazaar
Mailing address:
Software Business and Engineering Institute
P.O. Box 9210
02015 Espoo
FINLAND