Sustainability is a topic of increasing interest. The United Nations has released a list of 17 goals for sustainable development for the global community. Blockchain is a recent technological innovation that shows great ...

Context: Software startups are software-intensive early-stage companies with high growth rates. We notice little evidence in the literature concerning engineering practices when startups transition to the growth phase. ...

Context: This full research paper presents an experience-based course designed around a semester-long external Innovation Bootcamp. Objective: We evaluated the impact of the Innovation Bootcamp on students’ learning and ...

Context: This full research paper presents a review of the project descriptions from a project based course designed around close collaboration with students and external customers. Our master course is based on four decades ...

In the modern economy, software drives innovation and economic growth. Studies show how software increasingly influences all industry sectors. Over the past 5 decades, software engineering has also changed significantly ...

Context: Customer-driven courses have been a classic approach in teaching software engineering for over four decades at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The main goal of these courses is close collaboration ...

Software startups are software-intensive early-stage companies that have high growth rates. Their time to market is often regarded as short and decisive in establishing their product/service success, thus leading to ...

We have been teaching an experiential-based course for fist year master students. In the last two years, we have added to the course external activities such as Hackathon and Bootcamp. These external activities helped ...

Context: This full research paper presents an experience-based course designed around a semester-long external Innovation Bootcamp activity. Objective: We sought to evaluate the impact of Innovation Bootcamp on students’ ...