Speed, Data, and Ecosystems

In the spring of 2011, after 8 years in industry, Jan Bosch returned to academia as a professor of software engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Earlier, he worked as VP Engineering Process and VP Open Innovation for Intuit in Mountain View, California. Prior to joining Intuit, he worked for several years at Nokia Research Center. Before that, he was a full professor of Software Engineering at the University of Groningen. His main research interests are in software architecture assessment, design and representation, software product lines, including variability management, organizational approaches and product family architecture design, design erosion, component-oriented software engineering, object-oriented frameworks and design patterns.

Part 1 Introduction. Introduction. Need for Speed. Viganbe. Part II Speed. Stairway to Heaven: Speed. Throughput vs. Responsiveness. Managing Architecture. Continuous Integration. Part III Data. Stairway to Heaven: Data. Feature Experimentation. Evidence Driven Development. Part IV. Ecosystems. Stairway to Heaven: Ecosystems. Three Layer Ecosystem Strategy Model. Implications of Software Ecosystems. Part V. Conclusion.