Accelerating Change in the Nordic Software Intensive Industry: Keynote Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice Workshop

Abstract

Collaboration between software engineering researchers and industry is notoriously difficult to scale beyond ad-hoc connections between individual researchers and companies. Software Center in Gothenburg, Sweden has over the last years built up a scaling research collaboration between eight international companies and three universities. Several elements underlie the success of the center, including the adoption of a sprint model, the role of industry in steering projects and the organization around a common conceptual model.