From Software Business Community
A community of researchers, managers, practitioners, end-users.
This is the definitive place to learn about software business.
Welcome!
SWBC is an online community connecting academics, industry managers, practitioners, and end-users globally.
- The Encyclopedia of Software Business captures knowledge from traditional disciplines and applies it to software business. It captures the experience of managers, practitioners, and reports case studies with valuable lessons for everyone in the software business.
- The book Foundations of Software Business will systematically capture the body of knowledge pertaining to software business. It is online, open access, edited and peer-reviewed, and written by expert authors.
- Other resources include pre-publication papers, a regional member list, publication outlets, professional societies, graduate theses, teaching materials and more.
All the community resources are contributed by its members and capture their collective experience, knowledge, and wisdom. [more...]
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News
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
- We just got word about a new and exciting conference that will definitely be interesting for users of this site: The 1st International Conference on Software Business - ICSOB 2010 has just been announced by the University of Jyväskylä! The Call for Papers looks very promising! Some personal favorites include Business in Cloud, SaaS; PaaS and managed services, Networks, ecologies and communities in software business.
Friday, November 27th, 2009
- The project for Value-based Software Process Improvement and Organizational Change Management (VASPO) has successfully ended after 3 years of research. You can now find their website hosted here on the Software Business Community.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
- We have a blog! Its is called "Bongaus" (a finnish word which means to "spot" something). The Blog is about business-related issues and challenges, with an emphasis on the software industry of Finland. Have a closer look here.
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Here researchers, managers, and end-users around the world can interact, collaborate, create and archive a unique body of knowledge, access many useful resources, and learn from one other."
David G. Messerschmitt, one of the founders of SWBCommunity.org
Get started!
- First browse around our community to see what is available. Among the more interesting neighborhoods are our encyclopedia and book.
- Edit an existing page to improve it. You will see see how our wiki-based platform (the same one used by Wikipedia) makes this easy. Before you can edit, you need to Sign Up!. This too is quick and easy (and free).
- Create a new encyclopedia article on a topic that captures your special experience and expertise, or create a new page that tells us about an organization (probably yours!) with an interesting involvement in software business.
- We are always there to help if you encounter any problems, check out the help pages or write a quick email to swbcadmin@swbcommunity.org .
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There are easy ways to help us grow the community.
We currently have 371 content pages. Observe this number grow rapidly!
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Provide feedback!
The easiest way to pass on suggestions and feedback is through the "Discussion" page attached to each and every page
(click the "Discussion" button at the bottom of the screen).
General comments can be added to the discussion on this page, and specific comments to the page in question.
See contact information for other ways to communicate with us.
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The current Sponsoring Organizations for the community
