• ESPA - Towards Evidence-Based Software Quality: Practices and Assessment (2008-)
  -quality goals, quality practices, quality information
• SHAPE - Software Product Health and Process Excellence (finished)
  -programming practices especially pair programming
• SEMS - Software Engineering Management System (finished)
   -agile software development (XP, ...), pair programming
• Lucos - Improving the Controllability of Product Development (finished)
   -developing LucosTools, a software for metrics visualization on the web
   -software configuration management

Teaching

• T-76.4115/5115 Software development project I-II (was T-76.115 Software project) (teacher-in-charge 2001-)
• T-76.633 Special course in Software Engineering: J2EE Project (teacher-in-charge spring 2004)
• T-76.650 Software Engineering Seminar: Agile Software Development (teacher-in-charge 2002)
• T-76.614 Software Configuration Management (teacher-in-charge 1998-2000)

I belong to the the eCross organizing committee, which is a large cross country race for both recreational and competitive runners in Espoo, Leppävaara. Welcome!

Vanhanen, J., M. V. Mäntylä, J. Itkonen, "Lightweight Elicitation and Analysis of Software Product Quality Goals – A Multiple Industrial Case Study" , In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop of Software Product Management, September 2009.

Vanhanen, J., C. Lassenius, and M. V. Mäntylä, "Issues and Tactics when Adopting Pair Programming: A Longitudinal Case Study", In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), August 2007. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J. and C. Lassenius, “Perceived Effects of Pair Programming in an Industrial Context“, In Proceedings of the 33rd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (EUROMICRO-SEAA’07), August 2007, pp. 211-218. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J. and Korpi, H.: Experiences of Using Pair Programming in an Agile Project. In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40), Hawaii, USA, January 2007. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J. and Lassenius, C.: Effects of Pair Programming at the Development Team Level: An Experiment. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE 2005), Noosa, Australia, November 2005, pp. 336-345. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J.: Effects of Pair Programming at the Development Team Level: An Experiment. Licentiate Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, 2005. Available as: PDF.

Mäntylä, M. V., Vanhanen, J, and Lassenius, C., Bad Smells - Humans as Code Critics. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 399-408.

Vanhanen, J.: Technical Product Management; Chapter 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. 107-114. Helsinki, 2004.

Vanhanen, J., J. Jartti and T. Kähkönen Practical Experiences of Agility in the Telecom Industry, In Proceedings of XP2003, Genova, Italy, June 2003, pp. 279-287. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J., J. Itkonen and P. Sulonen Improving the Interface Between Business and Product Development Using Agile Practices and the Cycles of Control Framework, In Proceedings of Agile Software Development Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 2003, pp. 71-80. Available as: PDF.

Rautiainen, K., C. Lassenius, J. Vähäniitty, M. Pyhäjärvi and J. Vanhanen A Tentative Framework for Managing Software Product Development in Small Companies, In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35), Hawaii, USA, January 2002. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J, Lassenius, C., Rautiainen, K.. Combining Data from Existing Company Data Sources: Architecture and Experiences. Chapter in "Knowledge Management Systems: Theory and Practice". ed. Stuart Barnes. Thomson Learning, London, 2002.

Vanhanen, J, Risku, K., Kilponen, P. Combining Data from Existing Company Data Sources: Architecture and Experiences. In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-33), Hawaii, January 2000. Available as: PDF.

Kilponen, P, Vanhanen, J. ViCA - A WWW based Tool for Visualizing Project Status. In Proceedings of In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-33), Hawaii, January 2000. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J., Lassenius, C., Rautiainen, Kristian. The Visualisation Client Applet - A Tool for Increasing the Visibilty of Product Development.In Proceedings of 6th International Product Development Management Conference, Cambridge, England, July 1999. Available as: PDF.

Vanhanen, J.: Improving configuration management processes of a software product. Master's Thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, 1997.