PhD-status for Magne Syrstad

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PhD-status for Magne Syrstad

• PhD-seminar for software engineering group.
  November 23rd 2004

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Outline

• Two case studies
• Good start to planning, but a lot remains
• AKVAsmart
• DNV
• Overall plans for next 6 months
• 3 questions

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AKVAsmart

• Establishment of a product family to support fish
  farming industry
• Replacing old project
• First project finished, the main one underway
• But a plan project starting outside of the common
  platform
• Possible focus
• Adoption
• Architecture and variability mechanisms

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DNV Software

• They have a common platform called BRIX
• Domain independent, little functionality
• From the Nauticus line of products
• Being established as platform for all products
  within DNV software
• Two possible cases
• AIMS Asset integration management system
• Making domain specific, shared components
• RMS Risk management system
• Making an extended platform as well as domain
  components.

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DNV Software

• Focus is still in the air
• Scoping of reusable components?
• Adoption strategies
• Overall benefits? Time to market, economy...
• Will have to agree on something with DNV Software

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Plan for the next 6 months

• Get case studies going and obtain results
• Organize local arrangements for changeability
  experiment with Simula.
• Organize exercises in software architecture
  course
• Take research methods course to complete classes
• Present something at internal PhD-conference in
  May/June to finish IT-emner

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Questions

• How wide is it wise to make a study ? The wider
  the more publishing opportunities, but the
  narrower the better result?
• One thing is getting a study started, but how to
  make it going, keeping the company interested?
• Does anyone know other companies with large
  company wide frameworks/families that are neither
  in the Familier project, nor Kantega?