Publications

1. Book
Oza, N. and Abrahamssson, P. Forthcoming in Dec 2009. Building Blocks of Agile Software
Innovation – Practices and Exploitation
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2. Research papers in refereed international scientific journals and books
Mäkelä, M., Oza, N. V. and Kontio, J. Forthcoming in 2009. Dynamic Capabilities in the Software
Process. Forthcoming in International Journal of Information Technology and Management. 8(1).
27 pages
Oza, N., Hall, T., Rainer, A. and Grey. S. May 2006. Role of trust in software outsourcing
development relationships. Journal of Information and Software Technology. 48. 345 - 354
Oza, N. and Hall, T. November 2005. Difficulties in managing offshore software outsourcing
relationships: An empirical analysis. Journal of information technology cases and applications
research (JITCA), Special issue on Global Software Outsourcing, 7(3).

3. Community contributions: Track/Workshop/Advisory committee (2007-2009)
Workshop Chair. May 2009. Positioning Agility. XP2009
Special Theme Chair. Jun 2009. Software Business. PROFES 2009
Session Co-chair. Sep 2008. Aligning ISERN milestones and key tasks. ISERN 2008
Session Co-chair. Sep 2007. Value Based Software Process Framework. ISERN 2007 Reviewer. Since 2007. IEEE Software
Associate Editor. Dec 2009. Green Information Technology. Internatioal Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 09).
Reviewer. Green Software Technology. AMICS 2009.
Advisory Board Member. Centre for Global Software Outsourcing, USA.
Advisory Board Member. Spanish national project (TBD in 2009)
Founding member. Since 2008. Software Business Community.
Organising committee member. 2009. China Nordic Forum.

4. Selected invited talks/seminar talks
Oct 2009. Seminar on Software Business. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki.
May 2008. Software Business Foundations. Singapore Management University
Dec 2007. How technology vendors can sustain currency appreciation? Global Outsourcing Summit (GOS), China.
Dec 2007. Virtual Community Service Networks. Peking University, Guanghua School of Management
Mar 2007. Qualitative Research: Applying Grounded Theory Methodology. Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands
Feb 2006. Identifying and Tailoring Your Product to the Needs of Rural Communities. Connecting rural communities, Commonwealth Technology Organisation, UK.

5. Research papers in refereed international scientific conference proceedings and books
Oza, N., Donnellan, B., E’Ocha, C., and Costello, G. January 2009. Before Jumping into the Bandwagon of ‘Agile Innovation’. FLEXI consortium. Technical report. 19 pages.
Oza, N., Abrahamsson, P. et al. (under review for XP2009). Global Experiential Software Research
Laboratory Explored: Case of Scrum in a Distributed Software Development Project . XP2009 conference, Sardinia, Italy.
Oza, N., and Häikio, J. (under review for ISSC 2009). A Case of Failed Agile Offshore Outsourcing – Experiences Shared. International Smart Sourcing Conference. New Jersey, USA.
Peltonen, J., Rönkkö, M. & Oza, N. Aug 2008. A Resource-Based Analysis of Inter-Organizational Software Reuse. Proceedings of the 5th annual International New Exploratory Technologies Conference, Turku, Finland.
Oza N., Biffl S., Fruehwirth C., Selioukova S. Sep 2008. Reducing the Risk of Misalignment between Software Process - Improvement Initiatives and Stakeholder Values, Proceedings of
EuroSPI 2008
Oza, N. and Peltonen, J. September 2007. Vendor selection in offshore IT outsourcing. 6th International Smart-sourcing Conference on Software Outsourcing, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.
Oza, N. and Palvia, S. January 2007. Critical success factors in managing offshore software outsourcing relationships. Global Information Technology Management. 4th (ed). Ivy League
Publishing, USA.
Oza, N. August 2007. Traceability in qualitative research. Proceedings of 30th IS Research seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS). [URL - www.cs.uta.fi/~tarja/irisWG/cr1082230810311.pdf]
Oza, N. and Mäkelä M. May 2006. The culture-based challenges in offshore software outsourcing. International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) 2006. Beijing: China.
[http://www.iamot.org/conference/viewabstract.php?id=1677&cf=10]