From Nico's Website

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H(a|e)llo. My name is Nico Zazworka and I am a computer scientist. I am currently working for the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering [1]. I received my Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science [2] at the University of Maryland [3]. My advisor was Professor Victor R. Basili [4] and I am member of the Experimental Software Engineering Group.

My main areas of work are:

• Preparing CMMI Level 2/3 organizations for high maturity CMMI (Level 4/5) appraisals
• Measuring process conformance and process performance using minimal intrusive methods (e.g. by using data from issue tracking and configuration management systems)
• Building technical solutions to identify Technical Debt in software projects (e.g. trough identification of code smells, ASA issues, Grime, and modularity violations)
• Investigating the usefulness of software visualization tools to help understand software quality and process issues

For further reading please see:

• My list of Publications
• CodeVizardWebsite

My email: [my firstname]@zazworka.com

[edit] Latest News

• 11/10/2011: Together with my colleague, Prof. Carolyn Seaman, I presented methods for identifying and managing Technical Debt in software reliant systems to an registered audience of over 600 practitioners as part of an IEEE webinar. The talk was given as part of the successful IEEE/Lockheed Martin webinar series: the online talk can be viewed here: [[5]]
• 06/01/2011: We will be presenting the paper "FLOW Mapping: Planning and Managing Communication in Distributed Teams" at the sixth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE2011), Helsinki, Finland, August 15-18, 2011
• 02/01/2011: I am now working for the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (CESE) Maryland in College Park, MD, USA : [[6]]
• 11/05/2010: I successfully defended my dissertation on: Process Conformance Testing: A Methodology to Identify and Understand Process Violations in Enactment of Software Processes
• 09/17/2010: Our paper on Are developers following the process: An XP Study won a best paper award at ESEM 2010.
• 08/24/2010: Future research directions in CS will include technical debt management: Our paper on Managing Technical Debt in Software-Reliant Systems will be presented at the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) and NITR&D/SPD Working Conference on the Future of Software Engineering Research. See Publications for more information.
• 05/27/2010: Two of our papers and one poster got accepted to the ESEM 2010 technical program. See Publications for more information.

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