Johannes Holvitie
Program Director (VSHVA, VSSHP & TYKS)
jjholv@utu.fi +358 50 348 5228 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Työhuone: 452A Rarely present at the office. Please, contact through other means first! ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3292-7970 |
Technical Debt; Software Development; Software Estimation; Software Architecture; Software Innovation; Software Start-ups
Part of the Software Development Laboraty with main interests in technical debt management, software innovations and systems portfolio management.
Johannes Holvitie is an Adjunct Professor of Software Engineering (especially in Software Development and Business). He is also the Program Director of ICT for the Wellbeing District of Southwest Finland as well as the Program Director of Electronic Services for the Hospital District of Southwest Finland. Holvitie received his doctorate in 2017 and docentship in 2022. His research interests lay in the software engineering domain and amongst others include technical debt and its management, differing methods for software estimation, the building and management of software architectures and systems portfolios in addition to the innovation processes within software start-ups and differing short-term events.
Research interests lay in the software engineering domain and amongst others include technical debt and its management, differing methods for software estimation, the building and management of software architectures and systems portfolios in addition to the innovation processes within software start-ups and differing short-term events.
My main teaching interests follow my research, and have materialized amongst others, through the following courses:
Postgraduate level:
- INFORTE - Technical Debt Management Workshopand
- Software Architectures, and
- Research Seminar on Software Engineering
Master’s level:
- Acquisition of Information Systems,
- Digitalization as Change Enabler,
- Enterprise Resource Planning Systems,
- Software House,
- Designing Object-Oriented Software,
- Capstone Project,
- Lean Software Start-up,and
- Project Management
Bachelor Level:
- Fundamentals of Software Development,
- Programming Languages and Paradigms,
- Distributed Systems Design, and
- Basic Course in Object-Oriented Programming
- Impact of Digital Interventions on Health Service Quality in Home Care: Preliminary Results of an Umbrella Review (2025)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
(Konferenssiposteri) - From Setting Up Innovation in a Novel Context To Discovering Sustainable Business — A Framework for Short-Term Events (2021)
- Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Security in agile software development: A practitioner survey (2021)
- Information and Software Technology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - The Cookbook of Successful Short-Term Events: Organization And Continued Development Of Outcomes Through An Iterative Process
(2020) Holvitie Johannes, Jaakola Mikko, Polvinen Tuisku, Käyhkö Niina, Gonzales Inca Carlos, Kisielewicz Pawel, Grzonka Daniel, Widłak Adrian, Szuster Piotr, Kołodziej Joanna, Główczyk Dominika
(D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti tai -selvitys ) - Processos e Práticas Ágeis Sensíveis à Dívida Técnica - Comparação dos Resultados de um Survey Executado no Brasil, Finlândia e Nova Zelândia (Agile Processes and Practices Sensitive to Technical Debt - Comparison of Results of a Survey Executed in Brazil, Finland, and New Zealand (2019) AMCIS 2019 Proceedings Caires V.C., Rios N., Holvitie J., Leppänen V., Licorish S.A., MacDonell S.G., Buchan J., Mendonça M., Spínola R.O.
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Security risk assessment and management as technical debt (2019) 2019 International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security) Rindell K., Holvitie J.
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Co-creative engineering curriculum design – Case East Africa (2018) 2018 Frontiers in Education Conference: Fostering Innovation through Diversity V Taajamaa, A Järvi, S Laato, J Holvitie
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Diversification and obfuscation techniques for software security: A systematic literature review (2018)
- Information and Software Technology
(A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä) - Internal interface diversification as a security measure in sensor networks (2018)
- Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Investigating the effects of agile practices and processes on technical Debt - The viewpoint of the brazilian software industry (2018)
- International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa)



