Publications

Software Business

• Kontio, Jyrki (Toim.), Kasvufoorumi 08 loppuraportti, Ohjelmistoyrittäjät ry, 2008
• Ahokas, Mika; Kontio, Jyrki; Mäkelä, Markus M.; Pöyry, Päivi; Lassila, Aki, Effects of Software Engineering Practices on the Scalability of Firms' Software Development Output. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium of Empirical Software Engineering Conference, Noosa Heads, Australia, 17.-18.11.2005. IEEE Computer Society. [R]
• Hietala, J., Kontio, J., Jokinen, J.-P., Pyysiäinen, J., Challenges of Software Product Companies: Results of a National Survey in Finland. In Proceedings of the Metrics 2004 Conference, 2004. [R]
• Niinikoski, Marja-Liisa, Valovirta, Ville and Kontio, Jyrki; Global Software -ohjelman arviointi, KTM Julkaisuja, 2006, ISBN 951-739-970-7
• Jani-Pekka Jokinen, Juhana Hietala, Markus Mäkelä, Petru Huurinainen, Markku Maula, Jyrki Kontio, and Erkko Autio. Finnish Software Product Business: Results from the National Software Industry Survey 2004. Tekes.  2005. A monograph published electronically, available at http://www.sbl.tkk.fi/oskari/
• Kuitunen, H., Jokinen J-P, Lassila A., Mäkelä M., Huurinainen P., Maula, M., Ahokas, M., and Kontio, J. Finnish Software Product Business: Results from the National Software Industry Survey 2005. Centre of Expertise for Software Product Business, Technopolis Ventures Oy.  2005.
• Kontio, J., Cusumano, M.A., Erdogmus, H., Raffo, D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Economics-driven Software Engineering Workshop (EDSER-6).  2004. IEE.
• Kontio, J., Butler, S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Economics-driven Software Engineering Workshop (EDSER-5).  2003. IEEE Computer Society.
• Jyrki Kontio, Jani-Pekka Jokinen, Markus M. Mäkelä, and Virve Leino. Current Practices and Research Opportunities in Software Business Models. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER). Sullivan K. (ed.), 2005. St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
• Hietala, J., Kontio, J., Productization: a Challenge to the Finnish Software Product Companies, Economic Trends, (5), 2003.
• Kontio, J., "Applying Modern Decision Making Theories to Assess Risks and Stakeholder Value in Software Development," Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research 2002.
• Kontio, J., "Challenges in Scaling Up Agile Software Development Process for Real Business," Proceedings of the 1st ICSE Workshop on Iterative, Adaptive, and Agile Processes 2002.
• J. Kontio and G. Calavaro, Towards Integrating Software Technology and Competitive Strategies, Proceedings of the PICMET ‘97 conference, Portland, OR, 1997.

Risk Management and Project Management

• Kontio, Jyrki, "Software Engineering Risk Management: A Method, Improvement Framework, and Empirical Evaluation." Doctoral dissertation, Helsinki University of Technology, publisher: Center of Excellence, ISBN: 952-5136-22-1, 2001.
• Kontio, J., Jokinen, J.-P., Rosendahl, E., Visualizing and Formalizing Risk Information: An Experiment. In Proceedings of the Metrics 2004 Conference, 2004. [R]
• Freimut, B., Hartkopf, S., Kaiser, P., Kontio, J., and Kobitzsch, W. An Industrial Case Study of Implementing Software Risk Management.  2001. Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference. [R]
• J. Kontio, G. Getto, and D. Landes, Experiences in improving risk management processes using the concepts of the Riskit method. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-6), 1998. [R]
• J. Kontio, O. Pitkänen, and R. Sulonen: Towards Better Software Projects and Contracts: Commitment Specifications in Software Development Projects. Proceedings of the ICSE 98 Conference. IEEE Computer Society. 1998. Kyoto. [R]
• J. Kontio and V. R. Basili, Empirical Evaluation of a Risk Management Method, 1997. Proceedings of the SEI Conference on Risk Management. Software Engineering Institute. Pittsburgh, PA. [R]
• Kontio, J., "Risk Management: What went wrong and what is the new agenda?," in Kontio, J. and Conradi, R. (Eds.) Software Quality - ECSQ 2002, Quality Connection - 7th European Conference on Software Quality -- Conference Notes Helsinki: Center for Excellence Finland, 2002.
• J. Kontio, The Riskit Method for Software Risk Management, version 1.00, CS-TR-3782, 1997. Computer Science Technical Reports. University of Maryland. College Park, MD.
• J. Kontio and V. R. Basili, Risk Knowledge Capture in the Riskit Method, 1996. Proceedings of the 21st Software Engineering Workshop. NASA. Greenbelt, Maryland.
• J. Kontio, H. Englund and V. R. Basili, Experiences from an Exploratory Case Study with a Software Risk Management Method, 1996. Computer Science Technical Reports. University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland.
• J. Kontio, Software Engineering Risk Management: A Technology Review Report Nokia Research Center Report, Process Improvement Project deliverable PI_4.1, 1994. Helsinki, Finland.
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 Process Management

• J. Kontio, A Process Engineering Framework. In:  Advances in Computers, ed. M.V. Zelkowitz.  Academic Press, 1998. [R]
• J. Kontio: Promises: A Framework for Utilizing Process Models in Process Asset Management, licentiate thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 1995.
• Kontio,J. A Brief Introduction to Experience Factory and Quality Improvement Paradigm.  1998. Helsinki, Suomen Laatuyhdistys. Proceedings of the Finnish Quality Conference. 28-4-9980.
• J. Kontio, Software Process Modeling: A Technology Review and Notation Analysis, Nokia Research Center Report, ProHAKE Project deliverable PI_1.6, 1994.

Software Engineering

• Mäkelä, Markus M., Nilay V. Oza, and Jyrki Kontio. 2006. “Dynamic Capabilities in the Software Process.” International Journal of Information Technology and Management, Vol 8, Issue 1, 2008. [R]
• Kauppinen, M., Vartiainen, M., Kontio, J., Kujala, S., Sulonen, R., Implementing Requirements Engineering Processes throughout Organizations: Success Factors and Challenges, Information and Software Technology, 2004. Vol. 46, nro 14, pp. 937-953. [R]
• Kontio, Jyrki and Conradi Reidar (Eds.), “Quality Connection - 7th European Conference on Software Quality 2002 – Proceedings”, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
• Kontio, Jyrki and Conradi Reidar (Eds.), Software Quality - ECSQ 2002, Quality Connection - 7th European Conference on Software Quality -- Conference Notes Helsinki: Center for Excellence Finland, 2002.

Knowledge-based Systems

• J. Kontio: “Matias: Development and Maintenance of a Large but Well-defined Application”, in Expert Systems With Applications, vol 3, 1991, Pergamon Press. [R]
• J. Kontio: Experiences from Development and Delivery of two large Expert Systems for Agricultural Loan Analysis, AI in Agriculture, food processing and agrochemical industries, Caen, France, September 1988 [R]
• J.   Kontio and A. Rouge, The VITAL Life Cycle Model, ESPRIT project VITAL (P5365) deliverable DD111, 1991.
• J. Kontio and P. Lounamaa: Graphical Framework for Knowledge Acquisition and Representation, revised version, Third European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-based Systems, Paris, 3-7.7.1989
• J. Kontio: Compilation as an Alternative to Interpreting Inference Engine, The Finnish AI Conference, 1988.
• J. Kontio; Nyyssönen, Kari and Rauhala, Olli: Practical Approaches to Testing of Rule-based Systems, The Finnish AI   Conference, 1988
   

Project Management

COTS and Software Reuse

• J. Kontio, G. Caldiera, and V. R. Basili, Defining Factors, Goals and Criteria for Reusable Component Evaluation, 1996. Proceedings of the CASCON'96 Conference. [R]
• J. Kontio: A Case Study in Applying a Systematic Method for COTS Selection. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1996. IEEE Computer Society. Cited as seminal work in the area of COTS selection. [R]
• S. Condon, S. Kraft, V. R. Basili, C. Seaman, J. Kontio, and Y. Kim, Evolving the Reuse Process, 1996. Proceedings of the 21st Software Engineering Workshop. NASA. Greenbelt, MD.
• J. Kontio, S-F Chen, K. Limperos, R. Tesoriero, G. Caldiera and M. Deutsch: A COTS Selection Method and Experiences of Its Use, 20th Software Engineering Workshop, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, 1995
• J. Kontio: OTSO: A Systematic Process for Reusable Software Component Selection, CS-TR-3478, 1995. University of Maryland Technical Reports. University of Maryland. College Park, MD.
• J. Kontio and S.-F. Chen, Hypertext Document Viewing Tool Trade Study: Summary of Evaluation Results 441-TP-002-001, 1995. ECS project Technical Paper. Hughes Corporation, ECS project.

Research Methods

• Kontio, J., Bragge, J., Lehtola, L., The Focus Group Method as an Empirical Tool in Software Engineering, in: Advanced Topics in Empirical Software Engineering,  Springer, 2007. [R]
• Kontio, J., Lehtola, L., Bragge, J., Using the Focus Group Method in Software Engineering: Obtaining Practitioner and User Experiences. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), 2004.  Paper received a best paper award at the conference. [R]

Teaching Methods

• Jyrki Kontio, Juhani Warsta, Markus M. Mäkelä, Mika Ahokas, Pasi Tyrväinen,and Päivi Pöyry. Software Business Education for Software Engineers: Towards an Integrated Curriculum. Proceedings of CSEE&T 2006, the19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training. Editors: Daniel Port and Laurie Williams. IEEE Computer Society. 2006. [R]

Keynotes and Panels at Conferences

• Keynote “Software Testing and Business” at Software Testing Forum, IIR, Helsinki, Sept 9, 2005 and Jan 18, 2006
• Keynote “Why Agile now? The Agility Needed for Business Success” at 3rd Agile Software Development Seminar (ASDS 2005), Oulu, Finland, Sept 29, 2005.
• Keynote at the Austrian Computer Society (OCG AK) seminar “Software-Prozesse in Europa: Basis für Integration von Business und Engineering”, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Dec 5, 2005.
• Keynote at EuroMicro 2004 conference, titled "Strategies and Guidelines for Creating Business Value through Software", Rennes, France, Sept 1, 2004,
• Invited presentation “Learning Organization & Experience Factory” in the Symposium on Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering - The Legacy of Victor R. Basili, ICSE 2005 conference, May 16, 2005, St. Louis, U.S.A.
• Chairman of the panel “Industrial Impact through Education -- Lessons Learned from Barry Boehm's Contributions to Software Engineering” at the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Hawaii, U.S.A., April 19,2006. Other panelists were Professor Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii, Professor Dieter H. Rombach, IESE Fraunhofer Institute, Dr. Rick Selby, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Professor Victor R. Basili, University of Maryland and Professor Barry Boehm, USC.
• Member at 10th anniversary panel of the Software Metrics 2004 conference, Chicago, Sept 14-16, 2004, U.S.A.
• Member of the Agile Software Development panel at the European SEPG conference, June 18, 2003, London.
• Member of the Agile Methods in a Mature Process Environment panel at the PROFES conference, Dec 11, 2002, Rovaniemi, Finland.

Tutorials Given at International Conferences

• J. Kontio, Risk Management in Software Development: A Technology Overview and the Riskit Method, A tutorial given at ICSE-99, Los Angeles, USA, 1999.
• Tutorial and workshop “A Co-Operative Learning Experience: using case studies, role-play and teamwork to enhance learning” at 7th European Conference on Software Quality, June 2002, Helsinki, Finland.
• Tutorial and workshop “Managing Commitments and Risks: Challenges in Distributed Agile Development” with Magnus Höglund and Jan Rydén, International Conference on Software Engineering, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
• In addition, I have given several presentations at international conferences and seminars over the past decade, in some of them as an invited speaker.  Events where I have been an invited speaker include: "BANKAI", London 1988, "AI in agriculture", Caen, 1988, "Expert Europe" Munich 1989, "Expert Systems in Banking and Insurance", Zurich, 1989, "Technologies for Credit and Leasing", Milan 1990 and 1992.