Tore Dybå (born 31 July 1961) is a Norwegian scientist and software engineer in the fields of information systems and computer science. He has been a Chief Scientist at SINTEF ICT since 2003.

Career

Dybå received his Master of Science in

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and Computer Science from the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

in 1987. In 2001 he received his Doctoral degree (

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) in Computer and Information Science from the

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. He worked as a software engineer and consultant in Norway and Saudi Arabia from 1987 until 1994 when he moved to SINTEF. Dybå had an adjunct position at the Simula Research Laboratory from 2002 to 2009, and from 2010 until 2015 he was a Professor of Software Engineering at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo.

Research

Dybå's research is related to organizational and socio-technical aspects of

software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invol ...

and how software development can be improved. He has been particularly concerned with combining rigorous research with topics of importance to the software industry, including software process improvement,

agile software development In software development, agile (sometimes written Agile) practices include requirements discovery and solutions improvement through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams with their customer(s)/ end user(s), ad ...

and management, and

empirical methods Empirical research is research using empirical evidence. It is also a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience. Empiricism values some research more than other kinds. Empirical evidence (the record of ...

for software engineering.

Awards

For the period 2001–2012, the '' Journal of Systems and Software'' ranked Dybå as the top scholar worldwide in

. The ranking named Dybå as the most active researchers by total articles in the period as well as the most cited researcher by total number of citations and adjusted citations. In 2014 Dybå, together with Barbara Kitchenham and Magne Jørgensen, received the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

ACM SIGSOFT The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software en ...

award for the most influential paper in the last ten years for the initial paper on evidence-based software engineering. Dybå et al.’s article on evidence-based software engineering for practitioners was chosen by the editorial and advisory boards of '' IEEE Software'' as one of the magazine's 25th anniversary top picks of recommended reading.

Selected works

* T. Dybå, T. Dingsøyr and N.B. Moe.

Agile Project Management Agile management is the application of the principles of Agile software development and Lean Management to various management processes, particularly product development and project management. Following the appearance of the Manifesto for Agile ...

, in G. Ruhe and C. Wohlin (Eds.) Software Project Management in a Changing World, Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 277–300, 2014. * T. Dybå and T. Dingsøyr. Empirical Studies of Agile Software Development: A Systematic Review, Information and Software Technology, 50(9–10): 833–859, 2008. * D. I. K. Sjøberg, T. Dybå and M. Jørgensen. The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research, Future of Software Engineering (FOSE 2007), IEEE-CS Press, pp. 358–378, 2007. * E. Arisholm, H.E. Gallis, T. Dybå and D.I.K. Sjøberg
Evaluating Pair Programming with Respect to System Complexity and Programmer Expertise
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 33(2):65-86, 2007. * T. Dybå
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Success in Software Process Improvement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 31(5): 410–424, 2005. * T. Dybå, B. Kitchenham and M. Jørgensen. Evidence-based Software Engineering for Practitioners, IEEE Software, 22(1): 58–65, 2005. * B. Kitchenham, T. Dybå and M. Jørgensen. Evidence-based Software Engineering, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 273–281, 2004. * T. Dybå. Improvisation in Small Software Organizations, IEEE Software, 17(5): 82–87, 2000.

References

External links

Publications by Tore Dybå
in DBLP
Publications and citations
in Google Scholar {{DEFAULTSORT:Dybå, Tore Living people Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni Norwegian University of Science and Technology alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Software engineers 1961 births