Software Center

General Assembly and Strategy Workshop
2018-08-20 13:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Stockholm)

Coordination Team Meeting
2018-08-20 09:00 - 10:00, 2018-06-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2018-05-21 09:00 - 10:00, 2018-04-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2018-03-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2018-02-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2018-01-15 09:00 - 10:00
The Software Center Coordination Team meets once per month.

PhD Thesis Defence - Aleksander Fabijan
2018-06-15 13:00 - 17:00 | NI:B0E07, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
Defense date: June 15th 2018, 1PM
Defense room: NI:B0E07, Malmö University
Thesis Title
Data-Driven Software Development at Large Scale
Abstract
Accurately learning what customers value is critical for the success of every company. Despite the extensive research on identifying customer preferences, only a handful of software companies succeed in becoming data-driven at a scale that they aim for. Benefiting from novel approaches such as experimentation on top of the traditional feedback collection is very challenging, yet tremendously impactful when performed correctly.
In this thesis, we explore how software companies evolve from data collectors with ad-hoc benefits, to trustworthy data-driven decision makers at scale. We base our work on a 3.5 year longitudinal multiple-case study research with companies working in both embedded systems domain (e.g. engineering connected vehicles, surveillance services) as well as in the online domain (e.g. developing search engines, mobile applications).
The contribution of this thesis is twofold. First, we present how software companies learn from customers. Second, we show how they adopt and evolve experimentation in order to improve their data-driven capabilities.
With our work, we wish to empower software companies to become data-driven at scale by using the experience of companies that succeeded in this. Ultimately this should lead to better software products and services.
Aleksander Fabijan

Steering Committee Meeting
2018-06-11 13:00 - 16:00

Task force meeting for planning sprint 15
2018-06-08 13:00 - 16:00

Product Management in the Age of Digitalization
2018-06-07 13:30 - 15:30 | Ericsson, Lindholmspiren 11, Lindholmspiren 11, Göteborg, 41756, Sweden
Meeting for product managers, focusing on the implications of digitalization.
The meeting is part of the Software Center reporting workshop.

Time: 13.30-15.30
Place: Ericsson, Lindholmen, Gothenburg
Address: Lindholmspiren 11, Gothenburg

Register at this link:
https://goo.gl/forms/1tF0VLn8kiKCA3kj2

Current observations of many of the companies that I spend time with have led to my prediction that most of these companies will be disrupted and killed by digitalization. If you are interested in avoiding that fate, my recommendations are fourfold:

Get software expertise in your senior leadership and board as soon as possible and listen. The world is changing rapidly and all your experience, collected over the last decades, is a liability rather than an asset.
Preparing for the future does not happen just by saying it. Put systems in place that ensure that sufficient resources are allocated into exploring opportunities created by digitalization and make sure that the success metrics are different from the mature legacy businesses.
Involve all functions in the company in the work around digitalization and embrace the uncertainty that comes with radical innovations.
Focus on your fringe customers and experiment with these customers at the edges of your business around new opportunities and innovations enabled by digitalization.

Most companies will be killed by the digitalization transformation and the odds are stacked against most companies. However, it’s still better to go down fighting than as a victim and, who knows, you might come out victorious!

Read more:
https://janbosch.com/blog/index.php/2018/05/17/why-digitalization-will-kill-your-company-too/

Jan Bosch and Malin Rosqvist will host this meeting during the Software Center reporting workshop.

Reporting workshop for all companies and other interested parties
2018-06-07 09:30 - 17:00 | Ericsson, Lindholmspiren 11, Lindholmspiren 11, Göteborg, 41756, Sweden
In Software Center, companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering. The reporting workshop takes place twice a year, in June and December. This one day event is open to everyone who is interested in learning more about results from research and cooperation within Software Center. The agenda ranges from key note presentations to theme specific break-out sessions. The cooperation between academia and companies in Software Center creates the software engineering success stories that industry needs.
Time: 10:00 – 17:00 (coffee & registration 09:30-10:00)
Place: Ericsson, Lindholmen, Gothenburg
Address: Lindholmspiren 11, Gothenburg

Register to the workshop
Please register at this link:
https://goo.gl/forms/1tF0VLn8kiKCA3kj2

Agenda in short:
09:30 Coffee & registration
10:00 Welcome & introduction: Jan Bosch
10:20 Theme presentations:

Continuous Delivery: Kristian Sandahl
Continuous Architecture: Jan Carlson
Metrics: Miroslaw Staron
Customer Data- and Ecosystem-Driven Development: Helena Holmström Olsson

10.50 Vinnova’s calls in international ICT and cybersecurity

Presentation by Jonas Bjarne, Vinnova
Presentation by Tommy Schönberg, Vinnova

11.10 Software Center exploration space & coffee
– overview of Software Center projects

Francisco Gomes: Automated Testing
Robbert Jongeling: Model-Based Development and Continuous Integration
Jan Carlson: Model-Based Development and Continuous Integration
Rebekka Wohlrab: Boundary Objects in Agile Practices: Continuous Management of Systems Engineering Artifacts in the Automotive Domain (poster)
Rebekka Wohlrab: RE for Large-Scale Agile System Development (presentation)

12:30 Lunch (at own expense), seats reserved at Ericsson lunch restaurant
13:30 Break-out sessions in five tracks – in depth about themes and projects
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Keynote: How to be AI first
by Luka Crnkovic-Friis, CEO of Peltarion: https://peltarion.com/
17:00 Closing

Invitation to the Software Center reporting workshop in pdf format:

Deadline Sprint 15 project proposals
2018-06-01

ICSE 2018
2018-05-27 - 2018-06-03 | Wallenberg Conference Center, Medicinaregatan 20, Göteborg, 413 90, Sweden
Welcome to the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 27 – 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden
ICSE, the International Conference on Software Engineering, is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, research, experiences, trends and concerns in the field of Software engineering. In 2018 ICSE will celebrate its 40th anniversary, and 50 years of Software engineering – 50 years of tremendously successful promotion of research, education and practices in software engineering.

Deadline for new project proposals
2018-05-25, 2017-11-17

ICST 2018
2018-04-09 - 2018-04-13 | Västerås, Västerås, Sweden
Welcome to the 11th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification
ICST 2018 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of Software Testing, Verification and Validation. ICST 2018 will include keynote addresses by eminent scientists as well as special, regular and poster sessions.

Brokerage Event
2018-03-27 13:00 - 16:00
Software Center organize one brokerage event a year where companies and researchers can pitch new projects and build engagement around these.

Mid-Sprint Steering Committee Meeting
2018-03-26 13:00 - 16:00

Digitalization Workshop II: Implications of Digitalization: Speed, Services and Software
2018-03-13 09:30 - 17:00 | Lund, Lund, Sweden
Digitalization not just affects products and services. It requires a fundamental reinvention of the organization. In fact, we are moving towards a new business operating system focused on speed, data, ecosystems and empowerment.

Software Center is organizing a one day workshop for senior leaders of its partner companies with the intent of:

Increasing awareness concerning the company- and industry-wide implications of digitalization
Facilitating acceleration of the digitalization agenda at the Software Center member companies
Improving support and create a knowledge exchange platform between the Software Center companies

Continuous Deployment and Functional Safety workshop #2
2017-12-12 10:30 - 2017-12-13 16:00
Date: December 12 & 13
Location: Chalmers Conference Center, Lindholmen Science Park
Start time: December 12, 10:30
Ending time: December 13, 16:00
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/LuXzu7MKjyiadhOP2
During the workshop, we will focus our activities on three main work streams, i.e. infrastructure, safe & agile process and automation. The desired outcome of the second workshop is
(1) a conceptual solution that addresses the main concerns,
(2) an outline of the concrete solution, and
(3) a “paper prototype” (mock-up) of the solution approach.
Based on this, the intent is to agree on some companies that are willing to pilot these solutions in their R&D.
The preliminary agenda:
December 12:
10:30-11:00 Opening, round of introductions, agreement of tangible outcomes
11:00-12:30 Plenary discussion of each work stream (30 minutes per stream)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-16:30 Break-out sessions #1 with each work stream (including coffee break)
16:30-17:00 Presentation by each work stream; discussion on next steps for day 2
December 13:
09:00-09:30 Opening, planning for the day
09:30-12:30 Break-out sessions #1 with each work stream (including coffee break)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Presentation by each work stream, discussion of alignment between the work streams
15:30-16:00 Agreement on next steps, reflection, feedback and closing

Software Center Steering Committee meeting
2017-12-11 13:00 - 16:00
Place: Chalmers Lindholmen, Building Jupiter, room 473 and video conference.
Time: 13.00-16:00
Outline
§1. Opening of the meeting
§2. Approval of agenda
§3. Reporting on status of Software Center
§4. Decision on project 14 project proposals
§5. Process for invoicing
§6. Survey results
§7. Social media results
§8. Any other business
§9. Closing of the meeting

Coordination Team meeting
2017-12-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2017-11-13 09:00 - 10:00

Task force meeting for planning Sprint 14
2017-12-08 13:00 - 16:00

Software Center reporting workshop
2017-12-07 10:00 - 17:00 | Ericsson, Lindholmen, Lindholmspiren 11, Gothenburg, 41756, Sweden
In Software Center, companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering. The reporting workshop takes place twice a year, in June and December. This one day event is open to everyone who is interested in learning more about results from research and cooperation within Software Center. The agenda ranges from key note presentations to theme specific break-out sessions. The cooperation between academia and companies in Software Center creates the software engineering success stories that industry needs.
Register to the Reporting workshop here
Time: 10:00 – 17:00 (coffee & registration 09:30-10:00)
Place: Ericsson, Lindholmen, Gothenburg
Address: Lindholmspiren 11, Gothenburg
Map: https://goo.gl/tV4gqB
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/ERwv72fnJBIzixKc2
Invite Invitation to reporting workshop Dec 7, 2017 (pdf)
Agenda in short:

09:30
Coffee & registration

10:00
Welcome & introduction: Jan Bosch

10:30
Theme presentations:
– Continuous Delivery: Kristian Sandahl
– Continuous Architecture: Jan Carlson
– Metrics: Miroslaw Staron
– Customer Data- and Ecosystem-Driven Development: Helena Holmström Olsson

11.00
Coffee & Software Center exploration space – overview of Software Center projects

12:30
Lunch (at own expense) – seats reserved at the Ericsson lunch restaurant

13:30
Break-out sessions: in depth about themes and projects

15.30
Coffee break

16:00
Provocation & panel discussion

17:00
Closing and walk to the Radisson Blu Riverside Hotel for an informal get-together
(at own expense)

This event is open to everyone who is interested in learning more about Software Center.
We are looking forward to seeing you!

Deadline Sprint 14 project proposals
2017-12-01

Workshop: Implications of Digitalization: Speed, Services and Software
2017-11-30 | Chalmers, Lindholmen, Hörselgången 5, Gothenburg, 41756, Sweden
Digitalization not just affects products and services. It requires a fundamental reinvention of the organization. In fact, we are moving towards a new business operating system focused on speed, data, ecosystems and empowerment.
Software Center is organizing a one day workshop for senior leaders of its partner companies with the intent of:

Increasing awareness concerning the company- and industry-wide implications of digitalization
Facilitating acceleration of the digitalization agenda at the Software Center member companies
Improving support and create a knowledge exchange platform between the Software Center companies

Time: 09.00 – 18.00
Place: Jeppesen, office, Odinsgatan 9, SE-411 03 Göteborg, Sweden
Room: “Aniara”
Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/zoDco6RPrIvEOls32
Agenda
09:00-09:30 Opening, introductions, purpose of meeting
09:30-10:30 Implications of Digitalization
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00 Speed, services and software
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:15 Working session – business and technology strategy implications
14:15-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:45 Working session – organizational implications
15:45-16:30 Plenary discussion – learnings and actions
16:30-17:00 Feedback, next steps and closing
17:00-18:00 Social hour
18:00-20:00 Dinner

Workshop about simulation technology
2017-11-21 13:00 - 17:00
The workshop aims to find possible common interests in simulation technology for a future software center project. Three companies are attending, which fills the agenda. Drop a mail to Kristian Sandahl for instructions and a link to the WebEx meeting if you cannot come to Linköping and want to listen in.
