Research group Digital Process Innovation

All our research is done in close collaboration with public and private businesses that can be defined as software-intensive organizations. This means that software or software-based services are the main product, or that advanced software solutions form the basis of the business.

Virtually all aspects of society are being digitized and most organizations are undergoing a digital transformation. This is one of our focus areas where we do research to find new knowledge about how digital transformation can develop the business, improve business models, and increase competitiveness, and how the business can utilize an ever-increasing supply of data to become a data-driven business. As an effect of the pandemic, we have also had a major focus on hybrid work in knowledge industries, where we see that employees and employers are thinking completely new about what are good strategies for knowledge work. We also research flexible methods and strategies for developing systems with high requirements for cyber security, safety and scalability. This is particularly relevant within the energy and transport domains, and for critical infrastructures.

The research group has a strong professional environment with a large international network where we work in interdisciplinary project teams. We work closely with our customers through research-based consultancy, workshops, data collection, analysis, idea development and implementation of research findings. The research has a direct benefit and impact on the customers' strategy and development. We emphasize dissemination of knowledge both in scientific channels and directly towards software-intensive businesses.

The research group has a close collaboration with NTNU and UiO, i.a. through Geminisenter Software Engineering.

Related research areas: System development - Digital transformation - Industrial cyber security.

Selected projects

Cybersecurity Barrier Management

The project will develop new knowledge, methods and guidance to secure industrial control and safety systems against cyberattacks. With several threat actor activity groups targeting the petroleum sector, the number of publicly known cyberattacks is...

Transformit – Data-driven digital transformation

The project will explore how we can use data to understand how organizations are transformed, how to support development teams in their work, and devise methods for using data to create new products and services.

10xTeams - Third-generation large-scale method for software innovation in autonomous teams

Today's established practices for software development and innovation are dominated by two schools: China and the United States. With their access to capital and expertise, they have gained a dominant position within large-scale technology...

Digital Class – Method for experiment-based digital product innovation

Norway has a strong maritime industry based on deep technical knowledge, exceptional quality, strong customer connections and efficient work processes. Over the last few years, the maritime industry is looking to boost its profitability and explore...

What we do

International award for solid research collaboration with the industry

Decisions based on research are key to success in business. Now, SINTEF researchers are hailed as world leaders for their work in helping leaders in the right direction.

How can we maintain spontaneous meetings while working from home?

Working from home or from a cabin has become quite common. But how can IT developers and other teams collaborate most effectively when their workdays are not tied to a single location?

Are you going to invest in digitalization - or digital transformation?

Have you ever wondered what digitalization and digital transformation are, are you unsure when these terms are used, and how you should relate to them? In short; What is the difference?

This is how the state can bring forth innovations with smart procurement

The emergency department at St. Olav’s Hospital shows the way and has succeeded through a completely unusual hunt for ideas.

The hybrid work life: Has work life changed forever?

Offices across the country have reopened, but what will the workday look like for everyone with an office job? Get the best tips from SINTEF’s researchers and hear how several of Norway’s companies are solving this.

This is how new employees can be included when they start from the home office

New employees do not know what they do not know about their new role. From the home office, it is not so easy to feel your way forward. Now research shows how such and similar tangles can be solved.

Tor Sporsem received SINTEF Digital’s communication award

Throughout last year, researcher Tor Sporsem shared his research on how digitization affects the way we work and what it takes to improve work methods. Now he has been awarded SINTEF Digital’s communication prize for 2021.

Hyperloop: The transportation dream is about to become real

In just a few years, it may take you only 30 minutes to travel the distance between Oslo and Trondheim.

The best tips for your home office

Enhance your workday with Chief Researcher Nils Brede Moe’s five tips for working from home.

Ansatte bruker ChatGPT som rådgiver. Hvor bra er det?

Digitale omstillinger bringer med seg sine egne miljøutfordringer

Videomøter kveler viktige leirbål

Blind tro på digitalisering kveler taus kunnskap

Verdien av et bookingsystem i en hybrid arbeidshverdag

Data er aldri objektive. La også erfaringer og intuisjon få rå litt innimellom.

Selected publications

Tøndel, I. A. & Brataas, G. 2022. SecureScale: Exploring Synergies between Security and Scalability in Software Development and Operation. EICC '22: Proceedings of the 2022 European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, p. 36-41.

Tkalich, A., Ulfsnes, R. & Moe, N. B. 2022. Toward an Agile Product Management: What Do Product Managers Do in Agile Companies? Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13–17, 2022, Proceedings, p. 168-184.

Stray, V., Moe, N. B., Strode, D. & Mæhlum, E. 2022. Coordination value in Agile software development: a multiple case study of coordination mechanisms managing dependencies. 2022 IEEE/ACM 15th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), p. 11-20.

Stray, V., Gundelsby, J. H., Ulfsnes, R. & Moe, N. B. 2022. How agile teams make Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) work. ICSSP'22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Processes and International Conference on Global Software Engineering, p. 104-109.

Sporsem, T. & Moe, N. B. 2022. Coordination Strategies When Working from Anywhere: A Case Study of Two Agile Teams. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13–17, 2022, Proceedings, p. 52-61.

Smite, D., Tkalich, A., Moe, N. B., Papatheocharous, E., Klotins, E. & Buvik, M. P. 2022. Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence. Journal of Systems and Software, 186, 111197.

Smite, D., Moe, N. B., Hildrum, J., Huerta, J. G. & Mendez, D. 2022. Work-From-Home is Here to Stay: Call for Flexibility in Post-Pandemic Work Policies. (Submitted paper). arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11136.

Ravn, J. E., Moe, N. B., Stray, V. & Seim, E. A. 2022. Team autonomy and digital transformation: Disruptions and adjustments in a well-established organizational principle. AI & Society, 37(2), p. 701-710. (Editorial).

Onshus, T., Bodsberg, L., Hauge, S., Jaatun, M. G., Lundteigen, M. A., Myklebust, T., Ottermo, M. V., Petersen, S. & Wille, E. 2022. Security and Independence of Process Safety and Control Systems in the Petroleum Industry. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2(1), p. 20-41.

Buvik, M. P. & Tkalich, A. 2022. Psychological Safety in Agile Software Development Teams: Work Design Antecedents and Performance Consequences. Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2022), p. 7330-7339.

Brataas, G., Hanssen, G. K., Qiu, X. & Græslie, L. S. 2022. Requirements Engineering in the Market Dialogue Phase of Public Procurement: A Case Study of an Innovation Partnership for Medical Technology. Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 28th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2022, Birmingham, UK, March 21–24, 2022, Proceedings, p. 159-174.

Berntzen, M., Hoda, R., Moe, N. B. & Stray, V. 2022. A taxonomy of inter-team coordination mechanisms in large-scale agile. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Ulfsnes, R., Stray, V., Moe, N. B. & Smite, D. 2021. Innovation in Large-Scale Agile - Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons When Hacking from Home. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops: XP 2021 Workshops, Virtual Event, June 14–18, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, p. 23-32.

Tkalich, A., Moe, N. B. & Ulfsnes, R. 2021. Making Internal Software Startups Work: How to Innovate Like a Venture Builder? Software Business: 12th International Conference, ICSOB 2021, Drammen, Norway, December 2–3, 2021, Proceedings, p. 152-167.

Tkalich, A., Moe, N. B. & Sporsem, T. 2021. Employee-Driven Innovation to Fuel Internal Software Startups: Preliminary Findings. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops: XP 2021 Workshops, Virtual Event, June 14–18, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, p. 145-154.

Tkalich, A., Mikalsen, M., Moe, N. B. & Sporsem, T. 2021. Digital transformation of a traditional business model: A case study from the maritime industry. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2021, 42.

Sporsem, T., Tkalich, A., Moe, N. B., Mikalsen, M. & Rygh, N. 2021. Using guilds to foster internal startups in large organizations: a case study. Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops: XP 2021 Workshops, Virtual Event, June 14–18, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, p. 135-144.

Sporsem, T., Tkalich, A., Moe, N. B. & Mikalsen, M. 2021. Understanding barriers to internal startups in large organizations: Evidence from a globally distributed company. 2021 IEEE/ACM Joint 15th International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP) and 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), p. 12-21.

Smite, D., Moe, N. B. & Gonzalez-Huerta, J. 2021. Overcoming cultural barriers to being agile in distributed teams. Information and Software Technology, 138, 106612.

Myklebust, T., Onshus, T., Lindskog, S., Ottermo, M. V. & Bodsberg, L. 2021. Data safety, sources, and data flow in the offshore industry. Proceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference.

Moe, N. B., Ulfsnes, R., Stray, V. & Smite, D. 2021. Improving productivity through corporate hackathons: A multiple case study of two large-scale agile organizations. Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2022 (HICSS 2022), p. 7310-7319.

Moe, N. B., Smite, D., Paasivaara, M. & Lassenius, C. 2021. Finding the sweet spot for organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale agile software development. Empirical Software Engineering, 26, 101.

Hanssen, G. K., Onshus, T., Jaatun, M. G., Myklebust, T., Ottermo, M. & Lundteigen, M. A. 2021. Principles of digitalisation and IT-OT integration. SINTEF Report 2021:00057.

Brataas, G., Martini, A., Hanssen, G.K. & Ræder, G. 2021. Agile elicitation of scalability requirements for open systems: A case study. Journal of Systems and Software, 182, 111064.

Stray, V., Tkalich, A. & Moe, N. B. The agile coach role: coaching for agile performance impact. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2021 (HICSS 2021), p. 6816-6825.

Myklebust, T., Lundteigen, M. A., Bodsberg, L., & Hanssen, G. K. 2020. Remote and agile improvement of industrial control and safety systems processes. E-proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference (ESREL2020 PSAM15), p. 271-276.

Hanssen, G. K., Brataas, G. & Martini, A. 2019. Identifying scalability debt in open systems. 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), p. 48-52.

Brataas, G., Hanssen, G. K., Herbst, N. & van Hoorn, A. 2019. Agile scalability engineering: The ScrumScale method. IEEE Software, 2019. 37(5), p. 77-84.

Employees in Digital Process Innovation

Nina Haugland Andersen

Research Scientist SINTEF Digital
Astri Moksnes Barbala

Research Scientist SINTEF Digital
Gunnar Brataas

Senior Research Scientist SINTEF Digital
Geir Kjetil Hanssen

Research Manager SINTEF Digital
Nils Brede Moe

Chief Scientist SINTEF Digital
Darja Smite

Senior Research Scientist SINTEF Digital

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Tor Thorsrud Sporsem

Research Scientist/PhD Fellow SINTEF Digital
Inga Viktoria Ågesdatter Gulliksen Stray

Senior Research Scientist SINTEF Digital
Anastasiia Tkalich

Research Scientist SINTEF Digital
Rasmus Ulfsnes

Research Scientist/PhD Fellow SINTEF Digital
Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad

Research Scientist SINTEF Digital