Darja Smite
Professor
Institutionen för programvaruteknik
Rum J2335, Karlskrona
Forskningsområde: Programvaruteknik
Darja Smite
Darja Smite är professor i programvaruteknik vid BTH och knuten till institutionen för programvaruteknik. Hennes forskning handlar bland annat om outsourcing av mjukvaruutveckling till lågkostnadsländer.
Smite arbetar med förbättring av utvecklingsprocesser och förser Ericsson, ABB, Emerson Process Management, Boss Media, CALVI och DXC med beslutstöd, bland annat genom samarbeten med leverantörer från Indien, Kina, Polen, Lettland, Ukraina och Ryssland.
Mer information nedan på engelska.
Education and Titles
Professor’s academic title, Blekinge Institute of Technology – 2016
Docent’s academic title, Blekinge Institute of Technology – 2013
Professor’s academic title, University of Latvia — 2013
Associate Professor’s academic title, University of Latvia — 2009
Docent’s academic title, University of Latvia — 2008
Doctoral degree in Computer Science (PhD), University of Latvia — 2007
Professional Certificates
European Software Institute (ESI) certificate for the training course on Introduction to Capability Maturity Model® Integration Staged Representation, V1.1. (2004)
DataPro certificate for the training course on Java, EJB bases (2002)
Certified Lotus Specialist (R4 App Dev), from Lotus Education (1999)
Research Grants
– Swedish Knowledge Foundation KK-Hög grant Nr.2012/0200 (2013-2016)
– Swedish Knowledge Foundation KK-Hög grant Nr.2009/0249 (2010-2013)
– European Social Fund project “Doctoral student research and post doctoral research support for university of Latvia” (2004-2007 as a doctoral student support and 2007-2008 as a post doc support)
– Latvian Council of Science project Nr. 02.2002 “Latvian Informatics Production Unit Support Program in the Area of Engineering, Computer Networks and Signal Processing” (2003-2010).
Work Experience
Professor of Software Engineering, BTH (Sweden) since 2016.
Employed in various positions since 2008. Research activities within the Software engineering research laboratory (SERL Sweden), incl. leadership for a number of research project funded by KKS and carried in collaboration with various industry partners (Ericsson AB, ABB, Emerson Process Management, Boss Media, CSC). Lecturing in the Ms program in Software Engineering: Global Software Engineering, Advanced Software Project Management. Profile: https://www.bth.se/eng/staff/darja-smite-xds/
Guest Professor, University of Latvia (Latvia) since 2013.
A member of academic staff since 2001, elected as a Professor in January 2013. Duties include: the role of a senator (2007-2010), and a responsible for students exchange. Lecturing in the Bs program in Computer Science: Requirements Engineering (since 2004), IT-related law and network etiquette (since 2002), Profile: www.lu.lv/dn/darbinieki/szmitedarja.html
IT Auditor and Consultant, RITI (Latvia) 2003-2010
Riga Information Technology Institute is a private R&D body owned by Exigen Services. Currently involved in research activities. Previous activities include: quality assurance for the software house, incl. software project measurement and internal quality auditing (ISO 9001:2000); and IT/IS security auditing and IT-related consultancy for external private and government institutions.
Systems Analyst / Project Manager, IT Alise (Latvia) 2000 – 2003
IBM Lotus-based application development: project management and system analysis; and Oracle portal implementation. Applications developed for a wide variety of business needs in different sectors, including: insurance policy management system, human resource management systems, document management systems, business process support systems, internal corporative portals.
Software Engineer, SWH Technology (Latvia) 1999 – 2000
Involved in lotus-based application development.
Utvalda publikationer
- Debattartikeln i Dagens Industri – Flytt till låglöneländer blir dyrköpt erfarenhet
- D. Šmite and R. van Solingen “What’s the real hourly rate of offshoring?”, in IEEE Software
- R. Britto, D. Šmite and L.-O. Damm, “Software Architects in Large-Scale Distributed Projects: An Ericsson Case Study” IEEE Software, Special issue on Software Architect’s Role in the Digital Age, 2016, 33 (6): 48-55
- D. Šmite, F. Calefato, C. Wohlin “Cost-Savings in Global Software Engineering: Where’s the Evidence?”, in IEEE Software, 2015, 32(4): 26-32
- C. Wohlin, D. Šmite and N. B. Moe, “A general theory of software engineering: Balancing human, social and organizational capitals”, in Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 109, No. 11, 2015, pp. 229–242
Senaste publikationer
- Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Fabio Calefato, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Marcin Floryan, Marcos Kalinowski, Daniel Mendez, Graziela Basilio Pereira, Margaret-Anne Storey, Rafael Prikladnicki, "Who “controls” where work shall be done?", Journal of Systems and Software, ISSN 0164-1212, EISSN 1873-1228, Vol. 239, Elsevier, 2026
- Darja Šmite, Franz Zieris, Lars-Ola Damm, "A wave of resignations in the aftermath of remote onboarding", Journal of Systems and Software, ISSN 0164-1212, EISSN 1873-1228, Vol. 238, Elsevier, 2026
- Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe, Rasmus Ulfsnes, Victoria Stray, Leif Eriks Opland, Anastasiia Tkalich, "Hackathons that Work", IEEE Software, ISSN 0740-7459, EISSN 1937-4194, IEEE Computer Society, 2026
- Eriks Klotins, Darja Šmite, Panagiota Chatzipetrou, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe, "Interest in Working Remotely", Journal of Software, ISSN 2047-7473, EISSN 2047-7481, Vol. 38, Nr. 2, John Wiley & Sons, 2026
- Eduardo Guerra, Darja Šmite, Xiaofeng Wang, "Introduction to the Special Issue - Agile and Lean", Information and Software Technology, ISSN 0950-5849, EISSN 1873-6025, Vol. 191, Elsevier, 2026