| form | group | time | week | room | teacher | |
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| college | wo 13.15-15.00 | 37-44 | BBL-079 | Slinger Jansen Ravi Khadka |
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| vr 11.00-12.45 | 37-44 | BBL-079 | ||||
| practicum | Slinger Jansen Wouter Westendorp |
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| groep 1 | wo 15.15-17.00 | 37-44 | BBL-017 | |||
| vr 9.00-10.45 | 37-44 | BBL-017 | ||||
| vr 13.15-17.00 | 37-44 | BBL-017 | ||||
| groep 2 | wo 15.15-17.00 | 37-44 | BBL-020 | |||
| vr 9.00-10.45 | 37-44 | BBL-020 | ||||
| vr 13.15-17.00 | 37-44 | BBL-020 | ||||
- know what developing a software product entails
- be able to work with the scientific theories of product software
- be able to start an own software enterprise
In this course the creation, production and organization of product software will be discussed and elaborated in depth:
- Requirements management: prioritization for releases, tracing en tracking, scope management
- Architecture and design: variability, product architectures, internationalization, platforms, localization and customization
- Development methods: prototyping, realization and maintenance, testing, configuration management, delivery; development teams
- Knowledge management: web-based knowledge infrastructures,
- Protection of intellectual property: NDA, Software Patents
- Organization of a product software company: business functions, financing, venture capital, partnering, business plan, product/service trade-off, diversification
After the course the students can continue working on the product in the Utrecht student software incubator, called Netherware, see www.netherware.nl. Netherware provides product and business coaching, access to the financial network, and the possibility to perform a master thesis project on your own product.
The aim of this course is to create a prototype and business plan for a novel software product. Students can join the course either with a product idea or without. In both cases your participation in the course must be formally approved. To get approval send your product idea or your willingness to participate in a product to Slinger Jansen (s.jansen@cs.uu.nl). After you have become part of an approved product team your application to the course will be finalized.
Please note: after subscription to this course you will be put on a waiting list. Once your product idea and team have been approved you will be allowed into the course.
Please also note: there is a new requirement that students can only join if they have at least obtained 22,5 ECTS within the MBI, so no first-semester students please!
Micheal Cusumano: The Business of Software, Free Press, ISBN: 074321580X.
Available from A-eskwadraat, and the regular bookshops.
The Netherware company is running during 12 hours of the week; 4 on Wednesday and 8 on Friday. In this time the following activities take place:
- Work on deliverables, product, or service
- Workshop with participatory knowledge transfer
- Progress meetings of the product teams
- Horizontal role activities
- Reporting to the Netherware management
- Presentations of Netherlands entrepreneurs in product software
The course grade is a weighted average of the grades for the deliverables and the presentation. Any activity graded below 6 is to be repeated.
- Project plan
- Product definition
- Product architecture
- Product design or prototype
- Business plan
At the end the product vision, prototype and business plan are presented to an external Board of Supervisors, which will judge the proposals for business feasibility.