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Cursus: INFOMSBE
INFOMSBE
Science-based entrepeneurship
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeINFOMSBE
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
The aim of this course is to create (in a team) 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 participation in the course must be formally approved.

This course is explicitly meant for students Information Science and Computer Science.
Pre-arranged or mixed teams are are no problem, it is the product idea that matters.

After this course the student should:
  • 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
Assessment
Several documents have to be produced during the course:
  • Product definition
  • Marketing plan and customer validation
  • Product architecture
  • Product design or prototype
  • Business plan
These documents are reviewed and feedback is given, partly by the horizontal teams.
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.
Inhoud
A software product is defined as a packaged configuration of software components or a software-based service with auxiliary materials, which is released for and traded in a specific market.
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

Course form
This course is run in the virtual software company Netherware.

The students form teams around their own product idea, and produce a design and a prototype of the product or service.
The students also play a horizontal role in Netherware: Finance, Project Office, Human Resource Management, Technology, Marketing, and Investor Relations.


The Netherware company is running during 12 hours of the week.

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
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