SPPI

CSI Director wins national award

CSI Director Professor John Hosking was awarded a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award at a ceremony at Parliament Buildings on Wednesday night. This reflects both his passion for teaching (and research supervision in particular) and his advocacy for mentoring and industry engagement programmes such as the CSI Academy and Extenda programmes....  read more »

Software Process and Product Improvement

SPPI aims to develop and apply a range of software productivity techniques and tools to enhance the performance of the software industry in New Zealand. Our focus is on process and product improvement using advanced model-based visualisation methods and tools.

Richard Li

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Business, Project and Technical Development Manager

As Chief Project Manager of the Academy Programme, Richard has worked with ICT companies and other project managers to manage and oversee 18 commercial R&D projects. He has assisted Industry Sponsors in obtaining Technology in Industry Fellowship (TIF) funds from FRST (Foundation for Research Science and Technology) and delivered high quality research and development outcome to business customers.

John Grundy

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Deputy Director
Professor

John Grundy has headed the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since February 2008 and is also appointed with the Department of Computer Science. He is helping develop programmes in Software Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science and improving the Departments' research productivity, industry linkages and external funding. .

John Gordon Hosking

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Director
Professor

John is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland. He led the establishment of the Academy, a structured summer internship scheme; the Extenda Development programme and the Centre for Software Innovation which acts as a focal point for University-industry research engagement in ICT.

Ewan Tempero

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Associate Professor

Ewan Tempero pursued a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics at University of Otago and a PhD in Computer Science at University of Washington. He then lectured on Computer Science at Victoria University. He has been an Associate Professor since 2002. His research involves Software Metrics, Reuse and Visualisation; Object-Oriented Development, Tool Development, Usability and Business Processes.

Jun Huh

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Researcher
Administrator

Jun is involved in various projects within the CSI as a researcher and technical assistant. His main focus is on the administration, project management, and development of Marama meta-tools project, which is one of the SPPI projects, and is working to improve upon areas of project release cycle, team communication, and shared code management.

Contact

+64 9 373-7599 ext 84028

Soft sell - turning code into cash

Christine Nikiel refers to the CSI Software Product and Process Improvement project in this recent article.Soft sell - turning code into case  read more »

Big dollar plan to boost software start-ups

Peter Griffin blogs about our Software Process and Product Improvement programme in Tuesday's NZ Hearld.  read more »

Software Process and Product Improvement grant awarded

Foundation for Research, Science and Technology awards CSI $3.4 million grant for Software Process and Product Improvement project with NZ ICT companiesThe Centre for Software Innovation has been successful in its bid to run a project on Software Process and Product Improvement, to be funded by the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology....  read more »