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Tanja E. Havstorm

Tanja E. Havstorm Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: Örebro University School of Business

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Tanja E. Havstorm

About Tanja E. Havstorm

Dr. Tanja E. Havstorm is an Assistant Professor  (Senior lecturer) at the Department of Informatics at Örebro University in Örebro, Sweden. Her expertise is in Agile Methods, Project Management, Requirements Engineering, and AI in software development. She belongs to the research environment Centre for Empirical Research on Information Systems (CERIS), where she is an active member of the Software Development Management research group. 

Research

Her PhD dissertation, “Cargo Cult in Agile Software Development” (2023), examined how agile methods are sometimes applied superficially in software teams, resulting in reduced effectiveness. She continues to explore how agile practices evolve in real-world settings, with a current focus on how AI tools—particularly large language models like GPT—are reshaping workflows, roles, and team dynamics. Her research examines how the integration of AI into agile teams affects power structures, decision-making, and collaboration, as well as the emergence of new software development practices.

Havstorm is currently part of the project “Consistency of GPT Models in Classifying Natural Language Requirements,” which studies how GPT models perform in categorizing requirements using zero-shot and few-shot learning. The project contributes to the field of AI-supported requirements engineering by investigating the reliability and practical applicability of these models in real-world development environments. 

She regularly presents at international conferences (e.g., HICSS, AMCIS, XP, ISD, ICSOB), publishes in journals such as IEEE Software and IJISPM, and serves as a reviewer and program committee member for venues including EASE and AMCIS, as well as a reviewer for IJISPM, IST, ICIS, and HICSS. 

Teaching

Since 2014, Havstorm has taught a wide range of courses at Örebro University across undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels. Her teaching focuses on systems and software development, agile project management, requirements engineering, and qualitative research methods. 

She has served as course manager for:

  • IK100G – Introduction to systems development, basic level
  • IK207G – Software Development Project with Scrum and Extreme Programming, intermediate level
  • IK205G – Requirements Engineering, intermediate level
  • IK462A – Setting Requirements in Information Security, advanced level
  • IK444A – Qualitative Methods in Information Systems Research, advanced level
  • 20IK047 – Literature Review in Informatics, doctoral level
  • 20IK053 – Communication and Impact, doctoral level

Havstorm is also an experienced thesis supervisor, guiding numerous bachelor’s and master’s projects in topics such as project management, agile methods, DevOps, innovation in tech teams, information and cybersecurity, and requirements engineering.

Equality and Gender Mainstreaming

In addition to her research and teaching, Havstorm has contributed extensively to gender equality initiatives at Örebro University. As Gender Mainstreaming representative for Informatics (2018–2021) and Project Manager for the Project for Equal Opportunity Within Informatics (2020–2021), she promoted inclusive practices in education and research. She organized workshops, departmental seminars, and industry events in collaboration with networks such as #addher, focusing on gender equality in tech and STEM subjects in higher education.

Research groups

Publications

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Articles in journals

Articles, reviews/surveys

Chapters in books

Conference papers

  • Appel Bangshøj, C. , Havstorm, T. E. & Algulin, Å. (2025). An Agile Mindset in a VUCA-World. In: Lodovica Marchesi; Alfredo Goldman; Maria Ilaria Lunesu; Adam Przybylek; Ademar Aguiar,  Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops XP 2024 Workshops, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 4–7, 2024, Revised Selected Papers. Paper presented at 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2024), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 4–7, 2024. (pp. 223-228). Springer Nature. [BibTeX]
  • Karlsson, F. , Chatzipetrou, P. , Gao, S. & Havstorm, T. E. (2025). Exploring Classification Consistency of Natural Language Requirements Using GPT-4o. In: Efi Papatheocharous; Siamak Farshidi; Slinger Jansen; Sonja Hyrynsalmi,  Software Business 15th International Conference, ICSOB 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18–20, 2024, Proceedings. Paper presented at 15th International Conference (ICSOB 2024), Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 18–20, 2024. (pp. 44-50). Springer. [BibTeX]
  • Havstorm, T. E. , Karlsson, F. & Hedström, K. (2023). Uncovering Situations of Cargo Cult Behavior in Agile Software Development Method Use. In: Tung X. Bui,  Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Paper presented at 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 3-6, 2023. (pp. 6486-6495). University of Hawai'i at Manoa. [BibTeX]
  • Mäki-Runsas, T. E. (2019). Towards Identifying Information Systems Development Method (ISDM) Cargo Cult Behavior. In:  AMCIS 2019 Proceedings. Paper presented at 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2019), Cancun, Mexico, August 15-17, 2019. Association for Information Systems. [BibTeX]
  • Mäki-Runsas, T. E. , Wistrand, K. & Karlsson, F. (2018). Cargo Cults in Information Systems Development: a Definition andan Analytical Framework. In:  27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018). Paper presented at 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018), Lund, Sweden, August 22-24, 2018. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Manuscripts