Tanja E. Havstorm

About Tanja E. Havstorm

Main areas:

• Research - Agile methods in IT and Project Management
• Education - Software Development Methods and Requirements engineering
• Equality work & Gender Mainstreaming

Research

Tanja is currently enrolled in the project of Cargo cult behavior in agile systems development. The project focuses on agile method adoption and use in information systems development organizations. The research project is funded by The Research School Management and IT

Teaching

She is teaching various courses such as systems development, systems modeling, requirement engineering, and information systems development methods (ISDM). During the recent semesters, Tanja has been supervising several bachelor theses mainly in the area of systems development methods.

History

Tanja's history at Örebro University started out with a BSc in Information systems, thereafter a Master level 1 in Information systems with a main focus on IT Management and systems development methods.

Other missions

- Ph.D. Student representative in Informatics between 2016-2020.

- Gender Mainstreaming representative in Informatics, 2018-2021.

Tanja was involved in the universities' equality and gender mainstreaming work Jämställdhetskollegiet, she also had a focus on equality issues regarding education, research, and the workgroup in the Informatics department. Tanja was involved in this work since the beginning of 2018. This resulted in different network events targeting both students and practitioners in the IT industry around Örebro. One such event was hosted at the University together with the #addher network during fall 2018. Over the years, Tanja held workshops for the Informatics staff in gender mainstreaming. In the autumn of 2021, she held an open seminar entitled "Gender equality in the IT industry and Business" for all informatics students. The seminar was held available in hybrid form.