Research

(Current) Research areas and interests:

Agile methods

• Agile team productivity
• Deployment, Assessment, Improvement and Tracking
• Trust in teams

Innovation ecosystems and software startups

Diversity in Tech Organizations

Experimental Software Engineering –  Quantitative and Qualitative research

• Case studies, Survey and Action Research
• Replication

List of Publications*

*prefer to read my Lattes CV? Here it goes: 

Articles

• Melo, Claudia de O. ; Cruzes, Daniela S. ; Fabio Kon, ; Conradi, Reidar . Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management. Information and Software Technology, v. 55, p. 412-427, 2013.
• O. Melo, Claudia ; SANTOS, VIVIANE ; KATAYAMA, EDUARDO ; CORBUCCI, HUGO ; PRIKLADNICKI, RAFAEL ; GOLDMAN, ALFREDO ; KON, FABIO . The evolution of agile software development in Brazil. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (Impresso), v. 19, p. 523-552, 2013
• OLIVEIRA, R. M. ; MELO, C. O. ; Goldman, A . Designing and Managing Agile Informative Workspaces: Discovering and Exploring Patterns. In: 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2013, Wailea. 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. p. 4790-4799.
• MELO, C. O. ; SANTANA, C. ; Kon, F . Developers motivation in agile teams. In: Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 2012, Çeşme, Izmir. 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2012. p. 376-383.
• TAKEMURA, C. ; MELO, C. O. . Studying agile organizational design to sustain innovation. In: Agile Brazil, 2012, São Paulo. Proceedings of the III Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods (WBMA 2012), 2012. p. 13-24.
• MELO, C. O. ; KON, F. Produtividade de times ágeis. Revista Engenharia de Software Magazine, Brasil, , v. 43, p. 1 – 9, 05 dez. 2011.
• CORBUCCI, H. ; GOLDMAN, A. ; KATAYAMA, E. ; KON, F. ; MELO, C. O. ; SILVA, V. S. . Genesis and Evolution of the Agile Movement in Brazil – A perspective from the Academia and the Industry. In: Proceedings of 25th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES), 2011, pp. 98-107.
• MELO, C. O. ; CRUZES, D. S. ; KON, F. ; CONRADI, R. . Agile Team Perceptions of Productivity Factors. In: Agile Development Conference (AGILE’2011), 2011, Salt Lake City, USA. Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference, 2011, pp. 57-66.
• MELO, C. O. ; FERREIRA, G. R. M. ; FIGUEIREDO, R. M. C. . Redesigning a software development process using EPF and SPEM: a case study (in portuguese). In: CONTECSI, 2011, Sao Paulo. 8th International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, 2011.
• MELO, C. O. ; KON, F. . Empirical evaluation of agile practices impact on team productivity. In: 12th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP’2011), Madrid, pp. 322-323.
• MELO, C. O. ; SANTOS Jr., Carlos Denner dos ; FERREIRA, G. R. M. ; KON, F. An exploratory study of factors associated with learning in agile teams on industry (in portuguese). In: VII Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop, 2010, Goiânia. Proceedings of 7th Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop, 2010.
• MELO, C. O. ; FERREIRA, G. R. M. . Adopting Agile in a Large Government Institution – a case study (in portuguese). In: Workshop Brasileiro de Métodos Ágeis (WBMA), Conferência Brasileira sobre Métodos Ágeis de Desenvolvimento de Software (Agile Brazil 2010). Porto Alegre. p. 104-117.
• SOUSA, T. C. ; MELO, C. O. . Generating Fit acceptance tests from B Specifications (in portuguese). In: IV Workshop de Desenvolvimento Rápido de Aplicações do Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software (WDRA-SBQS), 2010, Belém. Anais do Workshop de Desenvolvimento Rápido de Aplicações do Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade de Software, 2010. v. 1. p. 1-8.
• PEREIRA, B. A. C. ; MELO, C. O. ; FIGUEIREDO, R. M. C. Quality Assessment of Business Process Models (BPM): towards a proposal for Service-Oriented Architecture (in portuguese). In: VI CONTECSI International Conference on Information Systems and Technology Management, 2009, São Paulo.
• Schroeder, D. E. D. ; Moraes, P. F.de ; MELO, C. O. Evaluation of requirements engineering process in companies developing embedded systems: a case study (in portuguese). In: V Simpósio de Excelência em Gestão e Tecnologia (SEGeT), 2008, Resende – RJ. V Simpósio de Excelência em Gestão e Tecnologia (SEGeT), 2008.

Book Chapters

• GOLDMAN, A; MELO, C. O. ; KON, F.; CORBUCCI, H.; SANTOS, V. The History of Agile Methods in Brazil (in Portuguese, to appear), In: Maré de Agilidade. Bookman, 2014.
• MELO, C. O. Productivity and adaptability of agile teams: leveraging the paradox towards innovation (in Portuguese, to appear), In: Antologia ThoughtWorks Brazil. Casa do Código. 2014.
• Bertholdo, Ana Paula O. ; da Silva, Tiago Silva ; de O. Melo, Claudia ; KON, FABIO ; Silveira, Milene Selbach. Agile Usability Patterns for UCD Early Stages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Ied.: Springer International Publishing, 2014, v. 8517, p. 33-44. 2.
• Silva, Tiago Silva ; Silveira, Milene Selbach; O. Melo, Claudia; Parzianello, Luiz Claudio. Understanding the UX Designer s Role within Agile Teams. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Ied.: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, v. , p. 599-609.

Technical Reports

• KON, F. ; CUKIER, D. ; MELO, C. O. ; HAZZAN, O. ; YUKLEA, H. . A Panorama of the Israeli Software Startup Ecosystem. 2014.
• MELO, C. O.; KON, F. Productivity Factors in Agile teams – an exploratory study in Brazilian Companies (in Portuguese). March, 2012.
• MELO, C. O.; SANTOS, V. A.; CORBUCCI, H.; KATAYAMA, E.; GOLDMAN, A.; KON, F. Agile methods in Brazil: state of the practice in teams and organizations (in Portuguese). Technical Report MAC-2012- 03. Department of Computer Science. IME-USP. May, 2012. Available at: http://agilcoop.org.br/MetodosAgeisBrasil2011, with over 5200 visits (April, 2014).

Past Academic Projects

2006-2009

• Web services catalog and service quality
  • Neves, L. S., Klavdianos, P. B. L., Santos, R. M. G. L., Melo, C. O. XRIM-WS- An ebXML registry information model for web services repositories (in portuguese). Catholic University of Brasília, 2009.
  • Pereira, B.A.C., Melo, C. O. Quality Evaluation of Business Process Model (BPM): A proposal for Service Oriented Architecture (in portuguese). Catholic University of Brasília, 2009.
• Requirements Engineering
  • Damke, D. E., Moraes, P. F. Defining a Requirement Engineering process for embedded systems: a GQM-approach (in portuguese). Catholic University of Brasília, 2008.

2003-2006

• DCC – Department of Computer Science, IME – Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Master’s project: Classificação Semi-Automática de Componentes Java (Semi-automatic classification of Java components). Advisor: Profa. Ana Cristina V. de Melo

1997-2000

• FACOM – Faculty of Computer Science,  Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
• Project: Sistemas n-camadas: um estudo de caso na indústria (N-tier systems: a case study in industry). Advisor: Prof. Sergio de Mello Schneider