Research Publications

Books

Richardson, Ita, Ó hAodha, Mícheál (Eds.), Crouching Tiger: "Crouching Tiger": Quality and Competition in the Irish and Indian Software Industries by Brendan Keane, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, forthcoming.

Richardson, Ita, Runeson, Per, Messnarz, Richard (Eds.),13th European Conference, EuroSPI 2006, Joensuu, Finland, October 11-13, 2006, Proceedings, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4257, 2006, ISBN: 3-540-47695-4

Richardson, Ita; Abrahamsson, Pekka; Messnarz, Richard (Eds.), 12th European Conference, EuroSPI 2005, Budapest, Hungary, November 9-11, 2005, Proceedings, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3792, 2005, ISBN: 3-540-30286-7

Book Chapters

Richardson, Ita, Sarah Moore, Alan Malone, Valentine Casey and Dolores Zage, Globalising Software Development in the Local Classroom Through Virtual Teams in Information Systems and Technology Education: From the University to the Workplace, edited by Rod Turner and Glenn Lowry, IGI Global, pp 82-104, ISBN 978-1-59904-114-8, 2007.

Hynes, Briga and Ita Richardson, Creating an Entrepreneurial Mindset: The case for Information and Communication Technology students in in Information Systems and Technology Education: From the University to the Workplace, edited by Rod Turner and Glenn Lowry, IGI Global, pp 105-127, ISBN 978-1-59904-114-8, 2007.

Richardson, Ita and Briga Hynes, Women in engineering and technological entrepreneurship: exploring initiatives to overcome the obstacles in Female Entrepreneurship, Implications for education, training and policy edited by Nancy M. Carter, Colette Henry, Barra Ó Cinnéíde and Kate Johnston, Routledge, 2007 pp168-188. ISBN: 0-415-36317-9 (hbk)

Hynes, Briga and Ita Richardson, Bridging the Entrepreneurial and Technology Gap for Women in Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, edited by Eileen M.Trauth, Idea Group Inc. June 2006 pp 1-7, ISBN: 1-59140-81506.

Richardson, Ita, Funding Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology in Ireland in Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, edited by Eileen M.Trauth, Idea Group Inc. June 2006 pp 355-360, ISBN: 1-59140-81506.

International Refereed Journals

Ita Richardson and Hynes, Briga, Creating an Entrepreneurial Mindset for Information and Communications Technology Students, Education and Training Journal, Issue 3, 2008, forthcoming.

Hynes, Briga and Ita Richardson, Entrepreneurship Education – A means of Engaging and Exchanging with the Small Business Sector, Education and Training Journal, Volume 49, No 8/9, pp 732-744, 2007.

McCaffery, Fergal, Ita Richardson and Gerry Coleman “Adept – A Software Process Appraisal Method for Small to Medium-sized Irish Software Development Organisations”. In Press, Software Process: Improvement and Practice.

Sanders, Marty and Ita Richardson, “Research into long-term improvements in small to medium-sized organisations using SPICE as a framework for standards”, Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Volume 12, Number 4, July-August 2007, pp. 351-360.

Richardson, Ita and Christiane Gresse von Wangemheim, “Why are Small Software Organizations Different?”, Guest Editors’ Introduction, IEEE Software, January/February, 2007, pp 18-22.

Ledwith, Ann, Richardson, Ita and Ann Sheahan, “Small Firm – Large Firm Experiences in Managing NPD Projects”, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, pp 425-440, Vol 13, No 3, 2006.

Casey, Valentine and Richardson Ita, "A Practical Application of the IDEAL Model", Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Vol 9, Issue 3, July/September, 2004, pp123-132.

Richardson, Ita, “SPI Models: What characteristics are required for Small Software Development Companies?”, Software Quality Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, September 2002, pp 101-114.

Meehan, Bridget and Richardson, Ita, “Identification of Software Process Knowledge Management”, Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Volume, 7, Issue 2, June 2002, pp 47-56.

Richardson, Ita, “Software Processes in Very Small Companies”, Software Quality Professional, Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2002.

Richardson, Ita, Ryan, Kevin and Murphy, Eamonn, “Development of a Generic Quality Function Deployment Matrix”, Quality Management Journal, Volume 9, Issue 2, March 2002.

Richardson, Ita, “Software Process Matrix: A Small Company SPI Model”, Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Volume 6, No. 3, September, 2001).

Richardson, Ita and Ryan, Kevin, “Software Process Improvements in a Very Small Company”, Software Quality Professional, Vol 3, No. 2, March 2001, pp 23-35.

Meehan, Bridget and Richardson, Ita, “Towards Managing Knowledge for Software Process Improvement”, Novi Sad Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2000, pp 51-61.

Conference Proceedings

O’Leary, Padraig, Muhammad Ali Babar, Steffen Thiel and Ita Richardson, (2007) Towards Agile Product Derivation in Software Product Line Engineering, RISE Conference, November 2007.

O’Leary, Padraig, Muhammad Ali Babar, Steffen Thiel and Ita Richardson, Product Derivation Process and Agile Approaches: Exploring the Integration Potential, 2^nd IFIP Central and East European Conference on Software Engineering Techniques CEE-SET 2007, 10-12^th October, 2007, Pozan, Poland, pp 166-171.

McCaffery, Fergal, Ita Richardson and Peter Moller, Automotive-Adept: A lightweight assessment method for the Automotive Irish software industry, European Conference on Software Process Improvement, EuroSPI 2007, 26-28^th September, 2007, Potsdam, Germany.

Richardson, Ita, Sarah Moore, Daniel Paulish, Valentine Casey and Dolores Zage. “Globalising Software Development in the Local Classroom”. IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEET 2007, Dublin City University, Ireland, July 3^rd-5^th, 2007, forthcoming.

McCaffery, Fergal and Ita Richardson, “MedeSPI :A Software Process Improvement Model for the medical device industry based upon ISO/IEC 15504", International SPICE Days 2007, Germany, 19^th-20^th June, 2007, forthcoming.

McCaffery, Fergal, Ita Richardson and Gerry Coleman “Adept – A Software Process Appraisal Method for Small to Medium-sized Irish Software Development Organisations, European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI06, Joensuu, Finland, October 11^th-13^th, 2006, pp 7.13-7.21.

Casey, Valentine and Ita Richardson, Uncovering the Reality within Virtual Software Teams, International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE06, Florianopolis, Brazil, 16-19 October 2006, IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-2663-2.

Burton, John, Fergal McCaffery and Ita Richardson, A Risk Management Capability Model for use in Medical Device Companies. 4^th Workshop on Software Quality, Shanghai, China, 21^st May 2006, pp 3-8.

Casey, Valentine and Ita Richardson, Uncovering the Reality within Virtual Software Teams. Workshop on Global Software Development for the Practitioner, Shanghai, China, 23^rd May 2006, pp 66-72.

Richardson, Ita, Allen Milweski and Patrick Keil, Distributed Development – an Education Perspective on the Global Studio Project, ICSE 2006 – 28^th International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, China, 20^th-28^th May 2006, pp 679-684.

Ó hAodha, Mícheál and Ita Richardson, Software development processes and quality issues within the SME sector. In Perspectives in Software Quality, Proceedings of Software Quality Management Conference, SQM2006, March, Southampton, U.K. pp 169-178.

Linnane, Seán and Ita Richardson, Distributed Software Development – difficulties for the SME. In Perspectives in Software Quality, Proceedings of Software Quality Management Conference, SQM2006, March, Southampton, U.K. pp 113-128.

Blowers, Rosario and Ita Richardson, The Capability Maturity Model (SW and Integrated) Tailored in Small Indigenous Software Industries, International Research Workshop for Process Improvement in Small Settings, Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., October 19-20, 2005

Keane, Brendan and Ita Richardson, Quality: Attitudes and Experience Within the Irish Software Industry, European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI05, pp 49-58, Budapest, Hungary, 9-11 November, 2005.

O'Regan, Tom, Valentine Casey, & Ita Richardson, “Virtual Team Implementation and Management - A Position Paper”, International Workshop on Distributed Software Development, DISD 2005, Paris, France, 29-30 August 2005, pp 187-191.

Casey, Valentine and Ita Richardson, 2005, “Virtual Software Teams: Overcoming the Obstacles”, 3^rd World Congress on Software Quality, 26^th-30^th September, Munich, Germany, 1-63 to 1-70, Volume 1.

C. Connolly, E. Murphy, I. Richardson; “Increasing Retention Rates and Student Participation on Computer Engineering Courses” International Conference on Engineering Education, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, July 2005.

C. Connolly, E. Murphy, I. Richardson; “Increasing the Number of Female Students and Participation in Engineering Courses” International Conference on Engineering Education, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, July 2005

C. Connolly, E. Murphy, I. Richardson; “Should We Be Focusing On Retention Of Computing Students At Third Level, Rather Than Recruitment?” 10^th DOSME Annual Conference, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education Universiti Brunei Darussalam, May 2005.

Sanders, Marty and Ita Richardson, 2005, “What happened after SPI assistance in Ireland?”, Fifth International SPICE Conference, Process Assessment and Improvement, 27^th-29^th April, University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

Casey, Valentine and Ita Richardson "Practical Experience of Virtual Team Software Development", EuroSPI04, Trondheim, Norway, November 2004.

Keane, Brendan and Ita Richardson "Software Quality Models - Decisions by Indian Companies", EuroSPI04, Trondheim, Norway, November 2004.

Richardson, Ita, Gerry Coleman, Norah Power and Kevin Ryan, "Does Software Development come under the Total Quality Management Umbrella", Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 2004.

Leonard, J., Moles, R., O’Regan, B., Richardson, I., 2004. Modelling the Impacts of Planning Policies on the Sustainability of Future Settlement Patterns In Ireland. In proceedings of the 35^th Annual Conference of the International Simulation And Gaming Association (ISAGA) and Conjoint Conference of Swiss Austrian German Simulation And Gaming Association (SAGSAGA) 6^th-10^th September 2004.

Richardson, Ita and Timo Varkoi, “Managing for Change when Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives”, European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI’ 2003, University of Music and Dramatics Arts, Graz , Austria, 10^th-12^th December, 2003.

Ansari, Saquib and Ita Richardson, “A Study of the Effect of Company Takeover on the Software Processes in Small Companies”, British Computer Society Eleventh International Conference on Software Quality Management, Process Improvement and Project Management Issues, Edinburgh, April, 2003 pp 89-100.

Casey, Valentine and Ita Richardson, “A Practical Application of the IDEAL Model”, Profes 2002, 4^th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, Rovaniemi, Finland, December 9-11, 2002.

Ledwith, Ann, Sheahan, Ann and Richardson, Ita “Management of NPD projects – comparison of small and large firms”, Continuous Innovation in Business Processes and Networks, CINet 2002 Conference, Espoo, Finland, September 15-18, 2002

Richardson, Ita, O’Brien, Maria and Moore, Patricia-Anne, “Foundation Course in Science, Engineering and Technology for Women”, ICWES12, 12^th International Conference on Women in Engineering and Science, Women in a Knowledge-Based Society, Ottawa, Canada, 27^th-30^th July, 2002, Reference No. 71 (published on CD-rom).

Richardson, Ita. “Characteristics required for successful SPI Models in Small Companies”, Quality Connection, 7^th European Conference on Software Quality, Helsinki, Finland, 9-13^th June, 2002.

Richardson, Ita. “SPI Models: What characteristics are required for Small Software Development Companies?”, British Computer Society Tenth International Conference on Software Quality Management, Issues of Quality Management and Process Improvement, Limerick Institute of Technology, 25^th-27^th March, 2002, pp 13-26.

Richardson, Ita. “Comparison of Software Process across Small Companies”, European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI’ 2001, Limerick Institute of Technology, 11^th October, 2001.

Richardson, Ita “Project Planning a Software Conference: The Case of ICSE 2000”, Project Management: A Catlyst for Change, Centre for Project Management Annual Conference, University of Limerick, 22^nd November, 2000.

Richardson, Ita and Ryan, Kevin, "Software Process Improvement in Small Companies", Eighteenth Annual Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, 16-18^th October, 2000, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

Meehan Bridget and Richardson Ita, "Towards Managing Knowledge for Software Process Improvement", III International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science with Practical Applications, University of Novi, Sad, 4-7^th September, 2000, Yugoslavia.

Richardson, Ita and Ryan, Kevin, "Software Process Improvements in a Very Small Company", EuroSPI ’99 European Software Process Improvement, Learn from the Past – Experience the Future, 25-27^th October, 1999, Pori, Finland.

Meehan, Bridget and Richardson, Ita, "Is there any Implicit Knowledge Managememt within Software Processes?", Proceedings of British Computer Society Sixth Annual Conference on Information Systems Methodologies, Salford University, 3-4^th September, 1998, Salford, U.K.

Meehan, Bridget and Richardson, Ita, "Knowledge Management as a catalyst in Software Process Improvement", Pending, Conference on Knowledge Management Transfer, University of London, 21^st-22^nd July, 1998, London, U.K.

Richardson, Ita, "Using Quality Function Deployment to Develop Action Plans for Software Process Improvement", Proceedings of the 10^th Software Engineering Process Group Conference (SEPG '98), 9^th-12^th March, 1998, Chicago, U.S.A.

Murphy, Eamonn, Mc Inerney, Rose, MacMahon, Juliet, Hynes, Briga, Ledwith, Ann, Richardson, Ita, Treacy, Mairead, "Generating Growth in Irish Small Companies: Addressing the Research Gap in the Irish Context", Proceedings of the 20th International Small Business Association Conference, 19^th-20^th November, 1997, Belfast, Northern Ireland, pp 1511-1531

Richardson, Ita, "Quality Function Deployment - A Software Process Tool?" , Proceedings of the Third Annual International QFD Symposium", Linkoping University, 1^st-2^nd October, 1997, Linkoping, Sweden, pp 39-49, Volume 2.

Lynch, Brendan and Richardson, Ita, "Quality Function Deployment - improving Information Technology Service within Manufacturing", Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 1997, Middlesborough University, 25th - 27th June, 1997, Middlesborough, U.K. pp 910-921.

Power, Norah and Richardson, Ita, "Methodologies are Never Enough", Proceedings of British Computer Society Fourth Annual Conference on Information Systems Methodologies, Lessons Learned from the Use of Methodologies, University College, Cork, 12th-14th September, 1996, Cork, pp 247-256.

Richardson, Ita, and Murphy, Eamonn, "Improving Product Distribution with Quality Function Deployment", Proceedings of the 1996 Learning Edge Conference, European Foundation for Quality Management, 24-26th April, 1996, Paris, France, pp 544-554.

Richardson, Ita, and Murphy, Eamonn, "Case Study: Application of Service Quality Function Deployment within an Irish Industry", Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Concurrent Engineering and Electronic Design Automation, Bournemouth University, 18-19th January, 1996, Poole, U.K., pp 349-356

Richardson, Ita, "Green Computing - the application of computers in environmental management", Proceedings of Second European Feminist Research Conference on Technology, Work, and Ecology, Graz University of Technology, July, 1994, Graz, Austria, pp 268-275.

Special Issue, Guest Editor

IEEE Software Special Issue – Software Engineering Challenges in Small Organisations, January-February, 2007, with Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim.

Keynote Presentation

“A good Local Process is not a substitute for good Global Processes”, European Software Process Improvement Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 26-28 September 2007 (forthcoming)

Tutorials
Lero Industry Day, Limerick, Global Software Development (with Dr. Gabriela Avram), 10^th December, 2007.

Bosch Conference on Software and Systems Engineering, Ludwigsburg, Germany, Global Software Development (with Dr. Gabriela Avram), 27^th March, 2007.

European Software Process Improvement Conference, EuroSPI06, Joensuu, Finland, Global Software Development, 11^th October, 2006.

PhD Thesis

Improving the Software Process in Small Indigenous Software Development Companies using a model based on Quality Function Deployment. University of Limerick, Ireland, December, 1999 (abstract).

Talks

Communication Aspects of Globally Distributed Testing, Software Engineering Research Centre Showcase, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A., 15^th-16^th November, 2006.

Gender Audit @ UL, University of Limerick Women’s Forum, University of Limerick, 9th November, 2006.

Global Software Development – the Challenges, Software Engineering Research Centre Showcase, Ball State University, Indiana, U.S.A., 15^th-16^th November, 2005 (via video).

ISERC Workshop, Global Software Development, 5^th July, 2005, Siemens Global Studio Project – an Experiment in Developing Components in a Globally Distributed Envrionment, University of Limerick.

ISERC Workshop, Steps towards submitting your PhD, 31^st January, 2005, Writing a PhD thesis – the Experience, University of Limerick.

Foundation Course – reflections, Achieving Sustainable Outcomes from the Equality for Women Measure: Women in the Economy, Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dublin Castle, Ireland, 14^th September 2004.

Software Quality in the Small Company, Software Engineering Research Centre, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A., 2^nd September, 2004.

University Research and Industry – the case of Software Engineering, Industrial Development Authority Annual Conference, Dublin, 6^th January, 2004.

Global Testing Infrastructure, Software Engineering Research Centre Showcase, West Virginia University, Morgantown, U.S.A., 15^th-16^th May, 2003.

Women in Science, Engineering and Technology: Positive Action towards our Future, Research Forum on Promoting Female Entrepreneurship – Implications for Education, Training and Policy, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 19^th November, 2002.

The Reality: Do Small Companies really have Software Processes?, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 22^nd February, 2002.

Women as Hi-Tech Entrepreneurs, ProWomEn Workshop, Dundalk Institute of Technology, 22^nd February, 2002.

Software Research in Small Companies, presentation to Software Companies, in conjunction with the Technology Transfer Innovation group, National University of Ireland, Galway, 19^th May, 2000.

“Using Quality Function Deployment as a technique to improve the Software Process in Small Companies”, University College, Cork Research Seminar Series, 31^st March, 2000.

"Improving the Software Process using Quality Function Deployment", 6^th Annual Computer Science and Information Systems Research Conference, University of Limerick, 14^th September, 1999.

"Using Quality Function Deployment to implement a Software Process Improvement Strategy", Department of Computer Science, University of Uppsala, 3^rd October, 1997, Uppsala, Sweden.

"Validating the Quality Function Deployment / Software Process Improvement Matrix", 4^th Annual Computer Science and Information Systems Research Conference, University of Limerick, 16^th September, 1997.

"Implementing Software Process in Small Software Development Companies", Presentation at Center for TQM and Sustainable Development, Kaunas University of Technology, 19^th August, 1997, Kaunas, Lithuania.

With Lynch, Brendan "Quality Function Deployment - Improving Information Technology Service within Manufacturing", 2^nd Annual College of Informatics and Electronics Research Conference, University of Limerick, 21^st May, 1997.

"Software Development Process - A QFD Application?", 3rd Annual Computer Science and Information Systems Research Conference, University of Limerick, 17th September, 1996.

"Using Quality Function Deployment as a Technique to Implement a Software Process Improvement Strategy", 6th U.K. Academy of Information Systems PhD Consortium, 7-9th July, 1996, De Montfort University, Milton Keynes, U.K.

With Cormican, Kathryn and Murphy, Eamonn, "Implementing Quality: Dealing with the Culture Barriers", Irish Quality Association Third Level Quality Network 1st Research Workshop, 28th May, 1996, University College Dublin.

"Information Systems in Business", Irish Production and Inventory Control Society Seminar Series, Limerick, May, 1995.

"Networking in Europe", Women's Studies Seminar Series, University of Limerick, November, 1994.

"Linking Computer-Aided Design to Computer-Aided Process Planning", Computer Science and Information Systems Research Conference, University of Limerick, September, 1994.

"The application of computerised information systems in environmental management", Fourth Irish Environmentalists Colloquium, U.C.G., January, 1994.

Panel Chair:

Preparing Students for Software Engineering Research, with academic and industry speakers, IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEET 2007, Dublin City University, Ireland, July 3^rd-5^th, 2007, forthcoming

Panellist:

Software Engineering and Computer Science Education Redesigned, Chaired by Paul Getwicki, Ball State University with David Dorenbos, Motorola Labs., Tom Abels, Raytheon and Robert Reinke, ITT, Software Engineering Research Showcase, 15^th November, 2006, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, U.S.A.

The Role of Process Improvement in the Development of the Hungarian Offshore Software Industry with S.V. Mani, Tata Consultancy Services and Suresh Nandiahlalli, Satyam Computer Services, chaired by Ferenc Bati, Hungarian Software Alliance, Hungary, EuroSPI05, 11^th November, 2005, Budapest, Hungary.

Three Views of Software Engineering Education, Seminar at Software Quality Research Laboratory, chaired by Prof. David L. Parnas, University o f Limerick, 12^th June, 2003.