Welcome

My name is Jil Klünder. I am post-doctoral researcher at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz University Hannover.
On the following pages, I present an overview of my research interests, teaching activities and the like.

About me

Dr. Jil Klünder

Researcher and Lecturer at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz University Hannover

Academic Education

10/2015 - 02/2019: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science at Leibniz University Hannover
04/2014 - 09/2015: Master of Science in Mathematics at Leibniz University Hannover
10/2011 - 06/2014: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Leibniz University Hannover

Current and Previous Positions

since 10/2015: Research Associate at the Software Engineering Group at Leibniz University Hannover
08/2013 - 09/2015: (Under-)Graduate Assistant at Leibniz University Hannover

Trainings (Selected Items)

Course for Higher Education Didactics at Leibniz University Hannover
several courses in project management, funding and writing research proposals

Awards (Selected Items)

2023: Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Enginee- ring and Measurement 2023 for the paper Divide and Conquer the EmpiRE: A Community-Maintainable Knowledge Graph of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering
2023: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Software and Systems Processes 2023 for the paper Using GUI Test Videos to Obtain Stakeholders’ Feedback
2023: Distinguished Reviewer Award von der International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering 2023
2021: IEEE Software Best Industry Experience Award at the Joint International Conference on Software and Systems Process and the International Conference on Global Software Engineering 2021 for the paper Towards Shaping the Software Lifecycle with Methods and Practices
2020: Leibniz Young Investigator Grant (funding scheme for postdoctoral researchers awarded by the Leibniz University Hannover)
2019: Advancement Award by the Stiftung NiedersachsenMetall
2019: ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software and Systems Process 2019 for the paper What are Hybrid Development Methods Made Of? An Evidence-based Characterization
2012 and 2016: Scholarships (Stratmann Stiftung)

Research

My research vision is to support modern software development teams taking into account the manifold factors influencing successful projects. This includes, but is not limited to the various factors introduced by the people involved in the process, as well as the chosen development process with its underlying methods and practices.

Information flow and collaboration in development teams are mandatory for project success. However, there are often interpersonal problems complicating the communication and collaboration. This, in turn, can for example lead to ill-communicated requirements causing dissatisfied customers.
Communication and interactions in meetings of development teams are often not as effective as they might be. We developed a procedure to uncover inappropriate behavior in meetings to increase the return on investment of meetings which increases the motivation of developers.
Content-related analysis of communication can help to detect persons that loose focus in, for example, project-related group chats. In addition, it is possible to gain insights into the mood in the development team by analyzing the emotionality, formality and the like in written communication.
Forecasting of behavior in development teams can reduce the risk for project failure due to interpersonal problems. We use machine learning and neural networks for these analyses.
Social Network Analysis and Graph Theory can be used to analyze team structures on both fine and coarse grained levels. It is possible to build networks based on social aspects such as communication or collaboration, as well as on technical aspects such as commits or source code.
Agile and hybrid software development processes are often tailored to the specific needs of a company or a project. However, a concrete schema to construct an appropriate development process is still missing.
Comprehensibility of machine learning algorithms is highly important to interpret the results correctly. Considering a neural network or the like as black box decreases the trust in the results as they are not reliable.

This research is part of interdisciplinary and/or international research projects:

HELENA (ongoing): Hybrid dEveLopmENt Approaches in software systems development
ComContA (2020-2022): Content-related Analysis of Communication in Groupchats of Software Development Teams
TeamDynamics (2017-2020): Interpreting communication structures in software teams with the help of forecasting models
TeamFLOW (2015-2017): Interaction and Communication in Distributed Software Teams

Selected Publications

Oliver Karras, Felix Wernlein, Jil Klünder, Sören Auer: Divide and Conquer the EmpiRE: A Community-Maintainable Knowledge Graph of Empirical Research in Requirements Engineering. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. IEEE, 2023.
Jil Klünder, Oliver Karras: Meetings and Mood–Related or Not? Insights from Student Software Projects. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2022.
Jil Klünder, Felix Trommer, Nils Prenner: How agile coaches create an agile mindset in development teams: Insights from an interview study. In Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 34(12), e2491, 2022.
Marc Herrmann, Martin Obaidi, Larissa Chazette, Jil Klünder: On the subjectivity of emotions in software projects: How reliable are pre-labeled data sets for sentiment analysis?. In Journal of Systems and Software, 193, 111448, 2022., In Proceedings of the Workshop on Research and Practice Challenges for Engineering Interactive Systems while Integrating Multiple Stakeholders Viewpoints, 2019.
Marco Kuhrmann, Jürgen Münch, Jil Klünder: Hacking or Engineering? Towards an Extended Entrepreneurial Software Engineering Model. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Processes, IEEE, 2022.

Please find here a complete list of my publications (including links to most of the papers).

Invited Talks (Selection)

02/2019: Science Slam @ MNU-Bildungskongress - Getting in Touch with Pi(e)
02/2018: Science Slam @ Jugend forscht - Von Mathe zu Informatik
08/2017: Talk @ Agile Community - Der Mensch im agilen Prozess
08/2017: Talk @ Agile Community - Der Einfluss von Kommunikation auf den Projekterfolg
06/2015: Women-MINT-Slam @ IdeenEXPO - Warum Mathematiker nicht rechnen

Research Profiles

Further information on my research activities is presented in the different research profiles:

Teaching

In my lectures, I try to achieve a good interaction of theory and practice. In most cases, I extend the lectures' theoretical content with talks from practitioners or with anecdotes from practice. The topics are related to agile (and hybrid) software processes both in lectures and practical lab exercises.

So far, I gave lectures on the following topics:

Lecture on Socio-technical Software Engineering (including exercises)
Lecture on Software Process Engineering (including exercises)
Lecture on Software Quality (including exercises)
Lab on Agile Software Development
Lab on Empirical Software Engineering
Lab on App Development
Seminar on Methods of Empirical Software Engineering

Professional Activities

Reviewing Tasks (Selection)

Journals

Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, ACM
Empirical Software Enginnering, Springer Nature
Requirements Engineering, Springer
Information and Software Technology, Elsevier
Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier
IEEE Software, IEEE
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Wiley

International Conferences and Workshops

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering
International Conference on Software and System Process
IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering
International Conference on on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Organizing Tasks (Selection)

PROFES 2024: Program Co-Chair
ICSSP 2024: Program Co-Chair
CSEE&T 2024: Workshop Chair
HCSE 2022: Demos and Posters Co-Chair
PROFES2018: Web Chair and Proceedings Chair
SE17: Web Chair

Contact

Please feel free to contact me via e-mail

jil.kluender[at]inf.uni-hannover[dot]de

or just swing by in my office:

Leibniz University Hannover
Main Building
Room G322
Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover
Germany