About.me
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, at Institute of Mathematics and Statistics – University of Sao Paulo. My advisor is Prof. Fabio Kon. We are working in the project “Empirical evaluation of agile practices impact on team productivity” (Granted by the State of São Paulo Research Foundation and The Research Council of Norway).
Besides the academic involvement, I’ve been working in software companies in the last 11 years.
Contact: claudia (at) ime.usp.br / @claudia_melo
Current Activities:
PhD. I’m conducting quantitative and qualitative research on Agile Methods and Software Productivity . My goal is generate empirical evidence regarding factors influencing agile team productivity, and explore productivity metrics in the agile context. My research project is based on collaborative, intensive partnership with IT industry. During the project, I’ve been participating in many important Agile conferences worldwide, and I also attended courses in other countries (such as Norway and Italy).
I’m the key player on the research project regarding Agile state-of-practice in Brazil (some results are available on the web). I’m the co-founder of SOMA research group, involving 2 professors, 1 posdoc, 5 PhD candidates and 6 master students. I’m also conducting applied research on agile methods in collaboration with other universities (UFPE, NTNU, UnB) and many multinational and national companies.
Consultancy and Teaching: I’m promoting agile methods and tech innovations in Brazilian private/public organizations. My main activities are: giving courses on agile methods, team productivity, and lean startups;
consulting on agile methods deployment and metrics; blogging in Agilcoop web site.
(Current) Research areas and interests:
Agile methods
- Agile team productivity
- Deployment, Assessment, Improvement and Tracking
- XP, Scrum, and Lean
Experimental Software Engineering - Quantitative and Qualitative research
- Case studies, Survey and Action Research
- Replication
Curriculum vitae:
Past Academic Projects
2006-2009
- Web services catalog and service quality
- Neves, L. S., Klavdianos, P. B. L., Santos, R. M. G. L., Melo, C. O. XRIM-WS- An ebXML registry information model for web services repositories (in portuguese). Catholic University of Brasília, 2009.
- Pereira, B.A.C., Melo, C. O. Quality Evaluation of Business Process Model (BPM): A proposal for Service Oriented Architecture (in portuguese). Catholic University of Brasília, 2009.
- Requirements Engineering
- Damke, D. E., Moraes, P. F. Defining a Requirement Engineering process for embedded systems: a GQM-approach (in portuguese). Catholic University of Brasília, 2008.
2003-2006
- DCC – Department of Computer Science, IME – Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Master’s project: Classificação Semi-Automática de Componentes Java (Semi-automatic classification of Java components). Advisor: Profa. Ana Cristina V. de Melo
1997-2000
- FACOM – Faculty of Computer Science, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
- Project: Sistemas n-camadas: um estudo de caso na indústria (N-tier systems: a case study in industry). Advisor: Prof. Sergio de Mello Schneider
Affiliations:
Distributed Systems Research Group (GSD) – IME-USP
Other Activities:
Assistant Editor of Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA)
