Dan Mircea Suciu PhD
About Me
Welcome to my website!
I'm a passionate teacher, speaker, author, trainer, and coach. With over two decades of experience in software project development, I've spent half of that time leading teams in various capacities, from technical leadership to project management and Scrum Master roles.
A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca, where I was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2000, I have lectured here since 1996. I currently teach courses on Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, Agile Software Development, Software Project Management, and Databases.
I am also a partner at Colors in Projects, where I contribute to designing, developing, and delivering training programs on Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile methodologies and practices. I am dedicated to fostering a collaborative and dynamic approach to project management, ensuring teams thrive in the ever-evolving landscape of software development.
I am the producer and co-host of Retrospective Agile podcast.
I am a keen player of video games and escape room boardgames.
Publications
International Journals
01. Dan Mircea SUCIU, Simona Motogna, Arthur-Jozsef Molnar, "Transitioning a project-based course between onsite and online. An experience report", Journal of Systems and Software, 2023, 111828,ISSN 0164-1212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2023.111828.
International conferences
01. Dan CHIOREAN, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Cristian SĂLVAN, Cosmin TRUŢĂ, Marius TRUŢĂ, "Semantic checking and reuse support in UML tools – ROCASE experience", International Conference UML’99 – Fort Collins – USA – Poster Abstracts, august 1999, pp. A1-A2
02. Dan Mircea SUCIU, Romain VUILLEMOT, Marian SCUTURICI, "Visual Detection of Rare Events Using Statechart", IEEE VisWeek Compendium, VAST Contest, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE. October 10, 2009
03. Vasile-Marian SCUTURICI, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Romain VUILLEMOT, Aris OUKSEL, Lionel BRUNIE, "Detecting Anomalies in Data Streams using Statecharts", Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances (EGC'10), Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information, RNTI-E-19, Hammamet, Tunis, January 2010, pp 635-636
04. Dan Mircea SUCIU, Bogdan Andrei POP, Rares URDEA, Bogdan MURSA, ”Non-intrusive tongue tracking and its applicability in post-stroke rehabilitation”, OTM Confederated International Conferences" On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems", oct. 2014, pp. 504-5013
05. Danut ILISEI, Dan Mircea SUCIU, ”Human-Activity Recognition with Smartphone Sensors”, OTM Confederated International Conferences, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, Springer, nov 2019, pp. 179-188
06. Andrei-Ionut CARTIS, Dan Mircea SUCIU, ” Chatbots as a Job Candidate Evaluation Tool”, OTM Confederated International Conferences, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, Springer, nov 2019, pp. 189-193
07. Simona MOTOGNA, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Arthur Jozsef MOLNAR, "Investigating Student Insight in Software Engineering Team Projects", Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE, 2021, pp. 362-371
08. Virginia NICULESCU, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Darius BUFNEA, ”Agile principles applied in learning contexts”, EASEAI 2021: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, August 2021, pp. 31–38
09. Simona Motogna, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Arthur-Jozsef Molnar, 2022. "Exploring student challenges in an online project-based course". In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing and Running Project-Based Courses in Software Engineering Education (DREE '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10–14.
10. Dan Mircea SUCIU. 2022. Implementing microlearning and gamification techniques in teaching software project management concepts. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (EASEAI 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 37–44.
11. Manuela Andreea PETRESCU, Diana Laura BORZA, and Dan Mircea SUCIU. 2022. Findings from teaching entrepreneurship to undergraduate multidisciplinary students: case study. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (EASEAI 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 25–32
Books / Book chapters
01. Dan Mircea SUCIU, ”Metode Agile de Management al Proiectelor”, LeanPub, 2018, ISBN 978-973-0-27742-5
02. Simona MOTOGNA, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Arthur Jozsef MOLNAR, ” Agile Mindset Adoption in Student Team Projects”, Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Springer, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-96648-5, pp 288-305
National Journals
01. Dorel BOZGA, Dan CHIOREAN, Alin FRENTIU, Bogdan RUS, Vasile SCUTURICI, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Dan VASILESCU, “RO-CASE - CASE Tool for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design”, Research Seminars, Seminar on Computer Science, Preprint no. 5, Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", 1994, pp 29-36
02. Dorel BOZGA, Dan CHIOREAN, Alin FRENTIU, Bogdan RUS, Vasile SCUTURICI, Dan Mircea SUCIU, Dan VASILESCU, “OOA&D : the Transition Among Models”, Research Seminars, Seminar on Computer Science, Preprint no. 5, Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", 1994, pp 37-44
03. Marian SCUTURICI, Iulian OBER, Mihaela SCUTURICI, Dan Mircea SUCIU, “Specification of Active Objects Behavior Using Statecharts”, Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, 1997, Vol. XLII, pp 19-30
04. Dan Mircea SUCIU, “Reuse Anomaly in Concurrent Object Oriented Programming”, Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, 1997, Vol. XLII/2, pp 74-89
05. Dan Mircea SUCIU, “Application Framework Reuse Using CASE Tools”, Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, 1998, Vol. XLIII/1, pp 81-92
06. Dan Mircea SUCIU, “Extending Statecharts for Concurrent Objects Modeling”, Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, 1999, Vol. XLIV/1, pp 65-76
07. Dan Mircea SUCIU, “Using Scalable Statecharts for Active Objects Internal Concurrency Modeling”, Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, 2000, Vol. XLV, pp 67-76
08. Dan Mircea SUCIU, “ActiveCASE – Tool for Design and Simulation of Concurrent Object-Oriented Applications” Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, 2001, Vol. XLVI/2, pp 73-80
09. Cătălin AFRĂSINEI-ZEVOIANU, Dan Mircea SUCIU, “Quality Costs Analysis in Software Industry: Benefits and Risks” Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Oeconomica, 2006, Vol. LI/1, pp 99-106
10. Mircea CIMPOI, Radu MEZA, Diana ZOICAŞ, Cristina CIUHUŢĂ, Dan Mircea SUCIU, “GreenLife - A MMORPG that Stimulates an Ecological Behavior ” Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, 2008, Vol. LIII/1, pp 121-128
11. Dan Mircea SUCIU, "Reverse Engineering and Simulation of Active Object Behavior", Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, LIV, KEPT 2009 Special Issue Vol. 2, 2009, pp. 239-243 - extended abstract
12. Dan Mircea SUCIU, Alina CUT, “A Framework For Active Objects in .NET", Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, LV, Vol. 3, 2010, pp. 37-44
13. Dan Mircea SUCIU , ”Extending UML State Diagrams with Behavioural Patterns”, Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica LVI, No 3, 2011, pp 77-82
14. Alina CALIN, Andrei CANTEA, Andrei DASCALU, Cosmin MIHAIU, Dan Mircea SUCIU, ”Mira–upper limb rehabilitation system using microsoft kinect”, Studia Informatica, 2011, pp 63-74
15. Camelia ANDOR, Bazil PÂRV, Dan Mircea SUCIU, “Using Latency Metrics in NOSQL Database Performance Benchmarking", Studia Universitatis "Babes-Bolyai", Informatica, LXIV, Vol. 1, 2019, pp. 39-50
National Conferences
01. Dan CHIOREAN, Iulian OBER, Marian SCUTURICI, Dan Mircea SUCIU, "Present and Perpectives in the Object-Oriented Analysis & Design – The RO-CASE Experience", The Third International Symposium in Economic Informatics, Bucuresti, mai, 1997, pp. 23 – 29
02. Dan Mircea SUCIU, "Reverse Engineering and Simulation of Active Objects Behavior", Knowledge Engineering, Principles and Techniques - "KEPT-2009" Selected Papers, “Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Iulie 2-4 2009, pp. 283-290
Other publications
01. "Interfeţe utilizator orientate-obiect", PC REPORT, 34, iulie, 1995
02. "O analiză a trei instrumente CASE: S-CASE, Rational ROSE şi Rational CRC", PC REPORT, 46, iulie, 1996, pp. 32-35
03. "RO-CASE - istoria dezvoltării unui instrument CASE autohton", PC REPORT, 46, iulie, 1996, pp. 40-41
04. "Principii de proiectare a interfeţelor grafice utilizator", PC REPORT, 51, decembrie, 1996, pp. 26-28
05. "Limbaje de programare orientate obiect concurente", PC REPORT, 59, august, 1997
06. "OPEN/OML", PC REPORT, 65, februarie, 1998, pp.28-30 (co-autor)
07. “Particularităţi ale proiectelor informatice”, Today Software Magazine, nr 8, ianuarie 2013, pp. 11-13
08. “Product Mindset”, Today Software Magazine, nr 13, iulie 2013, pp. 15-17
09. “Best Practices in Agile”, Today Software Magazine, nr 16, noiembrie 2013, pp. 13-15
10. “Cu Smilestone la Imagine Cup 2014”, Today Software Magazine, nr 27, septembrie 2014, pp. 09-11
11. “Agile Humanum Est”, Today Software Magazine, nr 39, septembrie 2015, pp. 12-14
12. “Agile și adaptarea la schimbare”, Today Software Magazine, nr 63, septembrie 2017, pp. 15-16
13. “#NoAgile”, Today Software Magazine, nr 69, Cluj-Napoca, martie 2018
14. “Reteaming”, Today Software Magazine, nr 75, Cluj-Napoca, septembrie 2018
15. “Fragile Sofware Development”, Today Software Magazine, nr 90, Cluj-Napoca, decembrie 2019, pp. 12-14
16. “Retrospective Agile”, Today Software Magazine, nr 99, Cluj-Napoca, septembrie 2020, pp. 15-16 (co-autor)
17. “Decizii colective în echipe de proiect”, Today Software Magazine, nr 108, Cluj-Napoca, iunie 2021, pp. 9-11
18. “(Re)Gândește Agile”, Today Software Magazine, nr 111, Cluj-Napoca, septembrie 2021, pp. 6-8
19. “Învățare Agilă”, Today Software Magazine, nr 123, Cluj-Napoca, septembrie 2022, pp. 14-17
20. "Să se revizuiască, dar să nu se schimbe nimic…", Today Software Magazine, nr 136, Cluj-Napoca, October 2023, pp. 10-12