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Jan E. Höglund
 
Experience | Philosophy | Methodologies | Research | Education and Affiliations | Contact Info

Experience
 
Jan has over 20 years experience of developing software. He has had various positions as software developer, project manager, line manager, consultant, and researcher. Jan currently works at ABB Corporate Research in Sweden.

Philosophy
 
Jan believes in the importance of empowering individuals and teams. Software development cannot be successful without disciplined, motivated people. He is interested in both the technical and human side of software development.

."... getting the people factors right is much more important in the end than technology or method considerations." Barry Boehm and Richard Turner, Balancing Agility and Discipline, p. 81.

"The main reason we tend to focus on the technical rather than the human side of the work is not because it's more crucial, but because it's easier to do." Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, Peopleware, p. 5.

 
Methodologies
 
Jan is a SEISM-authorized PSPSM (PersonalSoftwareProcessSM) Instructor. He has taught five one-week sessions of "Personal Software Process for Engineers", which is for developer members of software project teams. Jan has also taught three "TSP Executive Strategy Seminars": two at Swedish ABB software development organizations, and one in the US.
 
Jan is also a SEI-authorized TSPSM (Team Software ProcessSM) Coach. He launched, relaunched, and actively coached one ABB development project, which had two teams using TSP, in the US. Jan is currently coaching a TSP team in Sweden. Additionally, Jan is gradually introducing Agile and PSP/TSP principles with other projects he coaches in Sweden.
 
"..., Agile approaches are characterized by a culture of collaboration that emphasizes knowledge sharing, team responsibility for product delivery, and collaborative decision making." Jim Highsmith, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, p. 341

Research
 
Jan has collaborated with his ABB TSP Coaching teammate, Karen Smiley, on several papers, including "Aligning TSPSM with the ABB Business Decision ("Gate") Model", "TSP-EF Proposal: A Team Software ProcessSM Evaluation Framework", and "Using a 'TSPSM Evaluation Framework' to Measure TSPSM/PSPSM Compliance", the second in a planned series of TSP-EF papers.
 
Education and Affiliations

Jan is a member of the European SEPG 2005 Conference Project Management Symposium and Agile Sweden.

Contact Info
 
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