TIE-12206 Research Seminar on Startup Software Engineering (4 credits)

TIE-12206  Research Seminar on Startup Software Engineering (4 credits)

Time: Wednesdays 4.9 - 18.12.2013 at 12-14
Place: TC 114

A growing trend in industrial software engineering is that new software products and information services are developed under conditions of notable uncertainty. This is especially visible in startup enterprises which aim at new kinds of products and services in rapidly changing social web, where potential customers can quickly adopt new behavior. This trend has resulted in a software engineering paradigm (called here Startup Software Engineering, SSE), where the development and the usage of a product or service are not separated, but merged into a fast build-use-measure-learn cycle. This is in sharp contrast with existing software engineering paradigms which assume that requirements have been elicited before the actual development starts, and which emphasize controlled process rather than fast delivery. 

The purpose of the seminar is to map out the current knowledge on SSE, both from the viewpoint of technical solutions and from the viewpoint of the development process and its management. Since this a new topic in software engineering research, the seminar is expected to have a flavor of preliminary research, rather than a traditional literature review seminar. The students will go through existing material related to the topic, interview startups in Tampere region, and identify practices and technical solutions that support SSE. These practices and solutions are refined into patterns using the pattern workshop method. The seminar program consists of introductory lectures (about 4h), student presentations and discussion sessions on related literature topics (about 10h), and pattern workshops (about 20h).


The seminar is intended primarily for PhD students. The language of the seminar is English. The number of participants is limited. If you are interested to participate, please send email to Kai Koskimies, kai.koskimies@tut.fi.


Kai