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Larsson, Madelene
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Fricker, S., Persson, M. & Larsson, M. (2013). Tailoring the Software Product Management Framework for Use in a Healthcare Organization: Case Study. In: : . Paper presented at EuroSPI. Dundalk, Ireland: Springer
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Tailoring the Software Product Management Framework for Use in a Healthcare Organization: Case Study
2013 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Many reference models were developed for software process improvement. Each model, however, is an idealized prescription that is applicable in a lim-ited set of situation only. This paper has investigated how an existing refer-ence model can be tailored to a domain it has not been designed for initially. The tailoring approach is based on translating the reference model to the new domain and on inductive interviews for evaluating the translated model. The approach has been applied for assessing and improving strategic require-ments engineering practice in a healthcare organization with a framework for software product management.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Dundalk, Ireland: Springer, 2013
Keywords
reference model tailoring, inductive process improvement
National Category
Business Administration Human Aspects of ICT Software Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-6916 (URN)oai:bth.se:forskinfoBE1B9CAFB861117EC1257BC6001D07C2 (Local ID)978-3-642-39178-1 (ISBN)oai:bth.se:forskinfoBE1B9CAFB861117EC1257BC6001D07C2 (Archive number)oai:bth.se:forskinfoBE1B9CAFB861117EC1257BC6001D07C2 (OAI)
Conference
EuroSPI
Available from: 2013-08-29 Created: 2013-08-13 Last updated: 2018-01-11Bibliographically approved
Larsson, M. (2013). Traceability in Healthcare Innovation Maintaining the Relations Between Needs and Solutions. (Licentiate dissertation). Karlskrona: Blekinge Institute of Technology
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Traceability in Healthcare Innovation Maintaining the Relations Between Needs and Solutions
2013 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Healthcare is an important arena for improvement and innovation by the use of e-health solutions. But many obstacles exist, such as insufficiency in interoperability and usability. One reason for this problematic situation is that the development process has been inadequate. Swedish healthcare serves under regulations for public procurement. Hence, almost every e-health solution has to be procured to prevent an orientation towards illegal direct award of contracts. Specifying requirements that explain what the customer and users needs and why, is one of the most critical parts of that process. The customer gets what asked for, but often the requirements are on a high level of interpretation and not explicit or traceable enough. This prevents interoperability and usability from being a vital part of the prioritizing activity. Today knowledge about requirement processes and traceability is fragmented, and often more based on ideal models than on practical, real life experiences. The aim of this work is therefore to understand how traceability is managed and how it can be improved. I investigate who is most suitable to perform the “traceability activity” and, maybe even more important, the skill needed to fulfil that task. With a practice-based and ethnographical approach several studies have been conducted in different healthcare settings in Sweden, all closely connected to the design- and development process in e-health projects. The research shows that traceability maintains the relation between needs and solutions by providing a reality check for every step in the procurement and development. To accomplish that, requirements must be made explicit and interpretable for different stakeholders. The actors best suited for this “traceability activity” must have a holistic approach and know how to identify needs and relate them to the context. This demands a domain-specific knowledge about the healthcare setting and understanding how the organisation works practically and politically. It is crucial to also be skilled at usability, design, development and procurement. In addition, implementing IT in healthcare cannot be separated from business development. I argue that it is time to update the way healthcare development is managed and by whom. First, healthcare management must pay more attention on usability and the crucial role that healthcare professionals have as change leaders and needfinders to strengthening existing initiatives. Second, the design community must match existing initiatives and roles in healthcare with the designers’ special knowledge to support innovation and design processes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlskrona: Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2013
Series
Blekinge Institute of Technology Licentiate Dissertation Series, ISSN 1650-2140 ; 7
Keywords
Traceability, Usability, Needfinding, Requirements, Healthcare, E-health, Interaction design, Development, Innovation, Procurement
National Category
Medical Laboratory and Measurements Technologies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-00561 (URN)oai:bth.se:forskinfo5F460174652EFFFFC1257B7100378DC1 (Local ID)978-91-7295-260-7 (ISBN)oai:bth.se:forskinfo5F460174652EFFFFC1257B7100378DC1 (Archive number)oai:bth.se:forskinfo5F460174652EFFFFC1257B7100378DC1 (OAI)
Available from: 2013-06-18 Created: 2013-05-20 Last updated: 2017-03-14Bibliographically approved
Bergström, M., Ericson, Å., Larsson, M., Nergård, H., Larsson, T. & Renström, B. (2008). Needs as a basis for design rationale. In: Dorian Marjanovic, Mario Storga, Neven Pavkovic, Nenad Bojcetic (Ed.), : . Paper presented at 10th International Design Conference, Design 2008. University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia: University of Zagreb
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Needs as a basis for design rationale
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2008 (English)In: / [ed] Dorian Marjanovic, Mario Storga, Neven Pavkovic, Nenad Bojcetic, University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia: University of Zagreb , 2008Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

A basic principle for Needfinding [Faste, 1987; Patnaik & Becker, 1999] is that designers and engineers should interact directly with users to get direct insights into the user domain. Needfinding is not a new phenomena, it is almost forty years ago since the process was adopted at Stanford University’s product design program [Patnaik & Becker, 1999]. As the name, Need-finding, implies, this is an intertwined approach to find needs which are not readily articulated by users. The application of a Needfinding process offers qualitative methods to make those needs visible early on in product development. In fact, the process has become more interesting during recent time, since qualitative methods have gained more acceptance outside the academic realm [ibid.].The word qualitative indicates that what are sought for are qualities such as people’s experiences, what they perceive or interpret into a situation [Miles & Huberman, 1994; Patton, 2002]. Such data is contextually dependent, i.e., it must be generated in the context in which the phenomena occur. Besides context, people’s activities, behaviours and goals are important to observe and learn from. The objectives, for applying Needfinding, are to make the identification of needs and design a seamless effort, as well as an interest to identify opportunities to innovations. Needs last longer than any solution [Patnaik & Becker, 1999], since they are grounded in people’s activities. The solution and product that might meet such needs change over time. One example is how to store computer data, the products which satisfy the need has changed from, e.g., punch cards, magnetic tape, floppy discs [ibid.] to USB-flash memories. A guiding methodology in Needfinding is a flexible process, which is adapted to the task at hand [Kelley, 2001]. Such a process is conveyed in a few basic steps and, builds on a ‘philosophy’ which permeates all activities in order to adapt the process according to the project. Therefore, the designer’s ability to rely on such a process depends on familiarity with a number of methods for observations and interviews, as well as an aptitude for socio-technical skills. Hence, the purpose in this paper is to present and reflect on methods used in a running development project to identify needs in a product development project. This is done to contribute to the advancement of a need driven product development process. The disposition of this paper is as follows. First, our approach in studying the need identification activities is presented. Second, a theoretical frame for need identification and design is presented, i.e., Needfinding [Patnaik & Becker, 1999]. Third, the practice of finding needs is outlined and discussed.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia: University of Zagreb, 2008
Keywords
Needfinding, product development, information systems
National Category
Other Mechanical Engineering Other Medical Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-11275 (URN)978-953-6313-90-1 (ISBN)
Conference
10th International Design Conference, Design 2008
Projects
NeedInn
Funder
VINNOVA
Available from: 2015-12-26 Created: 2015-12-18 Last updated: 2016-01-05Bibliographically approved
Ericson, Å., Larsson, T., Larsson, A. & Larsson, M. (2007). Need driven product development in team-based projects. In: : . Paper presented at 16th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'07. Cité des Sciences et de l'industrie, Paris, France
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2007 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this paper, practical activities of Needfinding - an intertwined approach to identifying needs and to visualizing idea concepts in early design - are described and discussed. This is done primarily to gain an increased understanding of the various representations of user needs that are fed into the fuzzy front-end activities of team-based product innovation projects. The empirical basis comes from a study of an eight-month collaborative product development project, performed under realistic conditions by MSc students in close collaboration with their client. Focusing closely on customers and their needs is encouraged within the conceptual framework of Integrated Product Development and is increasingly highlighted as a key enabler in the design of truly innovative products. Despite the fact that identified customer needs are considered as the initial and primary input into such an innovation process, it can be argued that the design teams do not commonly have a sufficient understanding of customer needs and they do not normally interact with customers in their environment. Besides focusing on measurable aspects of user behaviour and requirements, a traditional approach to identifying and managing customer needs usually includes several interpretive stages before being handed over to the design team. In the context of innovative products, the identification and definition of customers and their needs is a non-trivial and difficult exercise. It involves, we suggest, not only Needfinding but also the definition of ‘those who might need the product’, users and customers to co-evolve iteratively in the early phases of design.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cité des Sciences et de l'industrie, Paris, France: , 2007
Keywords
Product Development, innovation, Needfinding, engineering design
National Category
Other Mechanical Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-11285 (URN)
Conference
16th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED'07
Projects
Faste LaboratoryNeedInn
Funder
VINNOVA
Available from: 2015-12-26 Created: 2015-12-18 Last updated: 2016-01-07Bibliographically approved
Larsson, T. & Larsson, M. (2007). NeedInn - behovsdriven produktutveckling inom E-hälsa. Luleå tekniska universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>NeedInn - behovsdriven produktutveckling inom E-hälsa
2007 (English)Report (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Denna rapport beskriver genomförandet och resultatet av EU-projektet NeedInn. NeedInn står för Needfinding och Innovation och det är inom dessa områden som projektet har tagit fram NeedInn-processen, ett arbetssätt med tillhörande metoder för hur du genomför behovsdriven produktutveckling inom e-hälsa. I rapporten framgår även problematiken som kan uppstå när behoven bakom olika lösningar inte tillgodoses på ett för användaren fungerande sätt och att det behövs en process för att fånga upp dessa behov redan från början så att fokus blir på rätt lösning. Rapporten består av Inledning, och sedan beskrivning av projektets Syfte och Mål. Därefter följer det ett kapitel om hur projektets organisation har varit under projektets gång. Där framgår det även vilka aktiviteter som projektet haft som utgångspunkt samt vilken tidsplan vi arbetat efter. Under kapitlet Fallstudierna redogörs det för samarbetet med de olika vårdaktörerna och varför det är viktigt med förankring innan ett sådant här projekt kan ta fart och få genomslagskraft. Det framgår även hur vi har gått tillväga för att sprida kunskap om projektet och hur vi arbetat med studentprojektet inom ramen för SIRIUS som är en avslutningskurs på LTU inom Kreativ produktutveckling. Vidare har vi under rubriken Samverkan samlat allt material om hur vi samarbetat med andra projekt, forskare, företag och relevanta verksamheter. Där framgår det även vilka konferenser och utbildningar vi deltagit på och hållit i och vad detta har gett projektet. I kapitlet Projektresultat redogör denna rapport för de olika prototypprojekt som genomförts i projektet och där framgår det även vilket tillvägagångssätt och val av metoder som vi använt oss av. Förutom prototypprojekten så har vi under detta kapitel även redogjort för de olika publikationer som är kopplade till projektet och där finns forskningsartiklar, bokkapitel och examensrapport sammanfattade. Arbetet med NeedInn-processen och dess tillhörande IT-stöd är något som också framgår under denna del. Slutligen avrundas denna rapport med en avslutande Diskussion där våra egna reflektioner och tankar kring projektet och dess resultat finns dokumenterade. <br/>

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Luleå tekniska universitet, 2007. p. 60
Keywords
Needfinding, E-hälsa, Produktutveckling, Behovsanalys, Innovation
National Category
Other Mechanical Engineering Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:bth-11279 (URN)
Available from: 2015-12-26 Created: 2015-12-18 Last updated: 2016-01-08Bibliographically approved
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