agile industrial
software development
Devicesoft
Devicesoft is an independent software development company specializing in software for industrial systems. We keep a strong focus on the software development process as the means for achieving increased software quality and frequent delivery.
Devicesoft provides freelance consultancy work from its owner Kim Pedersen, in the areas of requirements analysis, system architecture, system design and implementation.
Kim Pedersen
Kim Pedersen has a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering. He has 30 years of experience from the software industry, working with telecommunications systems, wind turbine systems, configuration tools and web-enabling databases before the term "WebService" was invented.
He has been participating in all phases of software development, working with requirements specification, architecture and design, implementation, test and support, and also with international standardization. Having experienced the different challenges of these roles, he has developed a strong interest in new and improved software processes, languages and tools for the maturing software industry.
"Ever since I was a kid I was always interested in the insides of technical devices. I pulled them apart just to figure out how they worked, and then I rushed to put the pieces back together again before my mum found out what I had been up to. Eventually I became an electrical engineer.
In the mid-1980's I started getting interested in computers and software. I was soon puzzled by the nature of software development. There seemed to be good and bad solutions, but no right or wrong solutions in the sense I had known from the traditional engineering disciplines.
At the surface, writing software just seemed to be about telling the computer what to do. However, it soon appeared to me that there was a lot of different concerns involved in getting things right and that many of these concerns were not strictly technical. I also discovered that the software industry was struggling with this problem, and that many people didn't even realize the depth of it.
I was thrilled. Now I also had to find out what was 'inside software development'"
