Brian Fitzgerald

Centre Director

University of Limerick

Contact Details

OFFICE: T2-020

TEL : 061-202720

Brian Fitzgerald is Director of Lero - Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software where he previously held the role of Chief Scientist. He holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he also served as Vice President Research. He was recently elected as President of the Association for Information Systems, the global body for information systems worldwide. He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing open source and inner source, crowdsourcing software development, agile and lean software development, and global software developmentHis publications include 17 books, and almost 200 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals and conferences in both the Information Systems and Software Engineering fields. Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked in the software industry for about 12 years, including positions with Citibank in Frankfurt and Brussels.

Publications

2021

Sai ARajendra, Buckley J, Fitzgerald B, Le Gear A. 2021. Taxonomy of centralization in public blockchain systems: A systematic literature review. Information Processing & Management. 58:102584.

2020

Callaghan MO, Buckley J, Fitzgerald B, Johnson K, Laffey J, Mcnicholas B, Nuseibeh B, O’Keeffe D, O'Keeffe I, Razzaq A et al.. 2020. A national survey of attitudes to COVID-19 digital contact tracing in the Republic of Ireland. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -). :1-25.

Stol K-J, Fitzgerald B. 2020. Guidelines for Conducting Software Engineering Research. Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering. :27–62.

Barcomb A, Stol K-J, Fitzgerald B, Riehle D. 2020. Managing Episodic Volunteers in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Communities. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. :1-1.

Tan X, Zhou M, Fitzgerald B. 2020. Scaling Open Source Communities: An Empirical Study of the Linux Kernel. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering.

Hemon-Hildgen A, Lyonnet B, Rowe F, Fitzgerald B. 2020. From Agile to DevOps: Smart Skills and Collaborations. Information Systems Frontiers. 22

2019

Barcomb A, Stol K-J, Riehle D, Fitzgerald B. 2019. Why Do Episodic Volunteers Stay in FLOSS Communities? International Conference on Software Engineering .

Fitzgerald B, Dennis A.R, Jyoung A, Tsutsui S, Muchala R.C. 2019. Information Systems Research: Thinking Outside the Basket and Beyond the Journal. Communications of the Association for Information Systems.

Gerostathopoulos I, Konersmann M, Krusche S, Mattos DIssa, Bosch J, Bures T, Fitzgerald B, Goedicke M, Muccini H, Olsson H et al.. 2019. Continuous Data-driven Software Engineering -Towards a Research Agenda. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 44(4)

Fitzgerald B, Mockus A, Zhou M. 2019. Towards Engineering Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Ecosystems for Impact and Sustainability -Communications of NII Shonan Meetings.