Neil Harrison

Faculty Member

Dr. Neil Harrison

Education

PhD, University of Groningen, 2011

Major: Computer Science

MS, Purdue University, 1982

Major: Computer Science

BS, Brigham Young University, 1981

Major: Computer Science

Teaching

CS 2370

C Plus Plus Programming, Spring 2025

CS 3370

C Plus Plus Software Development, Spring 2025

CS 6610

Graduate Project II, Spring 2025

CS 6500

Software Architecture, Spring 2025

Presentations

Harrison, Neil (Presenter & Author), Aguiar, Ademar (Co-Presenter), 18th International Conference on Challenges in Information Science, "Unleash the Power of Engineering Questions", Guimarães, Portugal. (May 15, 2024)
Harrison, Neil , Agile Portugal, "Organizational Patterns_ the Foundations of Agility", University of Porto, Portugal, Porto, Portugal. (May 23, 2015)
Harrison, Neil , Agile Portugal, "Agile and Patterns_ So Happy Together", University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. (May 22, 2015)
Harrison, Neil , ScrumPLoP, "Various Scrum Patterns", Scrum inc., Tisvildielje, Denmark. (May, 2014)
Harrison, Neil , Agile Executives Roundtable, "Patterns of Scrum_Keys to Understanding Effective Scrum-ming", Agile Executives, Salt Lake City, UT. (July, 2013)
Harrison, Neil , ScrumPLoP, "Various Scrum Patterns", Scrum inc., Tisvildielje, Denmark. (May, 2013)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Harrison, Neil , Aguir, Ademar , "The Nature of Questions that Arise During Software Architecture" . Wiley.
Harrison, Neil , (2024) "Circle of Trust and Responsibility" (vol. October 2023). Montecello, Illinois: Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs.
Harrison, Neil , (2024) "Organizational Patterns_ Looking Back Nearly 30 Years" . Allerton, Illinois: ACM.
Matovic, Viktor , Khail, Waheedullah Sulaiman , Vranic, Valentino , Harrison, Neil , "Establishing and Maintaining Pattern Sequences Using Stochastic Processes with an Application to Organizational Patterns" . Springer Nature Computer Science.
Harrison, Neil B, Rudolph, George , Tang, Jingpeng (JP) , Thackeray, Lynn , Wagstaff, David , (2023) "Capturing Notable Architectural Decisions" . L’Aquila: International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA).
Harrison, Neil , (2019) "Architecture Patterns of Web Services Applications" . Ottawa:

Awards

Faculty Research Award

School of Technology and Computing, UVU - April, 2013

Outstanding performance in research. One awarded in the college per year

Faculty Excellence Award

School of Technology and Computing, UVU - April, 2008

Overall outstanding performance in teaching, scholarship, and research. One awarded in the college per year

Neil Harrison Shepherding Award

Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP) conferences

Award named in my honor Awarded 1-2 times yearly, 2000-present

High honors graduation

Brigham Young University

Phi Kappa Phi induction

Brigham Young University

University Scholar

Brigham Young University