Table Of ContentSpeed, Data, and Ecosystems
Excelling in a Software-Driven World
Chapman & Hall/CRC Innovations in Software Engineering
and Software Development
Series Editor
Richard LeBlanc
Chair, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Seattle
University
AIMS AND SCOPE
This series covers all aspects of software engineering and software development. Books in the
series will be innovative reference books, research monographs, and textbooks at the
undergraduate and graduate level. Coverage will include traditional subject matter, cutting-edge
research, and current industry practice, such as agile software development methods and service-
oriented architectures. We also welcome proposals for books that capture the latest results on the
domains and conditions in which practices are most effective.
PUBLISHED TITLES
Building Enterprise Systems with ODP: An Introduction to Open Distributed Processing
Peter F. Linington, Zoran Milosevic, Akira Tanaka, and Antonio Vallecillo
Computer Games and Software Engineering
Kendra M. L. Cooper and Walt Scacchi
Engineering Modeling Languages: Turning Domain Knowledge into Tools
Benoit Combemale, Robert B. France, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Bernhard Rumpe, Jim Steel, and
Didier Vojtisek
Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews
Barbara Ann Kitchenham, David Budgen, and Pearl Brereton
Fundamentals of Dependable Computing for Software Engineers
John Knight
Introduction to Combinatorial Testing
D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, and Yu Lei
Introduction to Software Engineering, Second Edition
Ronald J. Leach
Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
André van der Hoek and Marian Petre
Software Development: An Open Source Approach
Allen Tucker, Ralph Morelli, and Chamindra de Silva
Software Engineering: The Current Practice
Václav Rajlich
Software Essentials: Design and Construction
Adair Dingle
Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Third Edition
Norman Fenton and James Bieman
Software Test Attacks to Break Mobile and Embedded Devices
Jon Duncan Hagar
Speed, Data, and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven World
Jan Bosch
REVIEWS
“This book gives you a great set of tools on how to bring business architecture and technology
architecture together to drive a common set of goals and objectives.”
—Brendan Bank, CTO Booking.com
“SDE offers a fascinating and well-researched overview of the major trends in the software
industry. If you want to survive as a software company in the 21st century, add this wonderful
book to your reading list.”
—Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and Managing for Happiness
“Jan Bosch has a unique background with both leading academic expertise and a profound
industry experience, and utilizing his knowledge and ideas in conjunction with digitalization will
result in great improvements and export values for Swedish companies. Jan Bosch is a pioneer in
how he systematically demonstrates the strength of changing the perspective for working with
software. He shows how new services, products and value is created by drawing on the deep
knowledge software developers have of customers, coupled with tools such as software
architecture knowledge and ways of working, user feedback and data collection.”
—Ingrid Nordmark, CEO Swedish Institute for Computer Science
“Jan Bosch has compiled a book that describes the challenges and the opportunities all industries
are facing connected to the increasing importance of software. The book addresses the dynamics
in the world: changing needs, technology development and also globalization where new
competitors appear and existing competitors reach new markets rapidly. These challenges require
speed, use of data (facts) for effective decision making and also clever use of collaborations with
external organisations in s.c. eco-systems. Fortunately, the book also describes ways to meet
these challenges and how to concretely achieve speed, use of data and effective use of eco-
systems of partners. I really like the approach that the book takes to first describe the challenges
and drivers for change, the why, in a management or strategy book manner, and then describe how
and by who to meet these challenges in a way that engineers and practitioners can relate to. This
means that this book is an excellent tool for a dialogue within a company between general
management, middle management and senior engineers — which in fact is an imperative to
survive in the future.”
—Stefan Andersson, Director Future Aircraft Systems at Saab AB and Chairman of Swedsoft
(www.swedsoft.se)
“The excellent book of Speed, Data and Ecosystems by Jan Bosch captures the essence for any
industry and company that is in the process of transforming into a digital future. Jan Bosch builds
his knowledge based on academic research and experience from the industry combining this into a
holistic approach how to work with software leveraging from the opportunities and meeting the
challenges.
The practices of agility, continuous integration and how to capture and manage the value of data
that will turn into services and products combined with the need for speed in a collaborative way
of working is an excellent opportunity to stimulate a needed dialog on many levels within a
company.”
—Mats Melander, Director Automation Solutions at Tetra Pak
“In an ever-changing world we all need to strive for speed with accuracy. Doing so can easily
drive you and your company on bad paths and this is why evidence based software development
becomes so crucial. Jan Bosch’s book is a great read for anyone that wants to make sure they
build what actually has the intended impact on their business let alone doing it with great speed
and minimal investment.”
—David Rejdemyhr, Engineering Manager Klarna
“If you’re interested in how to manage things in R&D intensive companies, this is the book for
you. You get a bleeding edge overview of the latest theories and models and how it all fits
together. Best of all, it’s easy to read and it’s full of relevant practical ideas that I can use in my
daily work. One thing is sure, I will be handing out copies of the book at my company.”
—Pontus Bergendahl, Manager FW development at Axis Communications
“A must read for any leader or professional in the software industry. Simple but insightful
Stairway models provide compelling and practical guidance for both every-day challenges and
extensive transformations in the realm of software development.”
—Mladen Pilipovic, Director of Engineering, Spotify
“During my 15 years working with strategy & business development I′ve read a lot of books,
attended several conferences and hired consultants within the field. Prof. Dr. ir. Jan Bosch plays
in another league in comparison. His experience from business and his research makes his advice
unique and invaluable for an old financial institutions struggling with digital transformation. Mr
Bosch’s advice on have to handle innovation in complex IT-system has been especially valuable
for us. If I should recommend one person to talk to when it comes to innovation in the 21st century
and one book to read it would be Mr. Bosch’s.”
—Gustav Gorecki, strategy & business development within Storebrand, founder of several
startups and ex Accenture strategy manager
“The software industry has been continuously speeding up the digital transformation of our lives.
Repetitious manual work gets automated, systems become more autonomous. We are at the edge
of autonomous driving, our kids hunt virtual comic figures in the real world, our bookkeeping is
close to being fully automated. So-called algorithmic tasks become digital, while heuristic tasks,
like creativity, stay with us humans.
Applying this to software development: In software development you can and must be smart, and
you need to make use of the machines, not only during final code execution but also in every step
of software development: automate every task, let the machines verify your code, free us of any
tedious work, produce and consume data, and close the feedback loops between creators and end
users.
On the other side, digital processes bring us knowledge in form of data in unprecedented
dimensions: transactions, receipts, usage data of applications, etc. Managing the risks and
obeying privacy—we should apply the available technology to make responsible and positive use
of the available data. Whether it is really Big Data in the sense of extremely large and complex,
or not, the evaluation of that data allows the machines to learn, predict, feedback, and potentially
automate, based on patterns and correlations.
Thirdly, already half of the top 10 of the most valuable companies do not sell or deal with classic
goods, but are creators and owners of powerful digital ecosystems. Ecosystems that scale not
linearly, like typical manufacturing or trading, but exponentially by the number of partners in and
users of the ecosystem.
This book unifies those three of the most current best practices of the software-driven industry:
speed, data, and ecosystems. Speed in value creation through software, namely continuous
integration, continuous delivery, and continuous experimentation. Data to feedback what we did is
actually the most effective and efficient to create value. Ecosystems to supersede classical
business models by factors. The book explains the relationships, gives examples, and guides you
with frameworks so that the application in your next project will let you harvest all the smartness
and profitability that is possible in todays software development.”
—Michael Kircher, CTO DATEV eG, Germany
“Professor Jan Bosch has written a book that relates to the most important challenge that many
companies are going through these years: Becoming more and more software dependent
(Digitization). In fact, he puts words on and suggest solutions on how to adapt to this. I
particularly like his “Stairway to Heaven” models that relate to Speed, Data and Ecosystems. I
like the BAPO-model thinking and the three layer model. All these make it possible for Leaders
and Employees that are not SW-experts to understand and suggest changes in their business to
overcome the challenges.”
—Jan Harding Gliemann, Senior R&D Director, GRUNDFOS, Denmark
“Volvo Group is a company where the amount of software is increasing rapidly. A majority of the
new innovations in a truck and the transport system are based on software. Our ability to
efficiently develop software and to reach our customers with new innovations, are already, and
will increasingly in the future be a key competitive differentiator. With this book we get methods
and tools to assess our software development maturity and the steps that we need to take to keep
us being a leader in commercial transport solution taking full advantages of the possibilities that
software and digitalization bring.”
—Ted Kruse, Director Electrical & Embedded Systems, Advanced Technology & Research,
Volvo Group Trucks Technology
“As an executive manager of a mid-size software product development organization, I found this
book as an eye opener. The Stairway to Heaven concept in three areas (speed, data and
ecosystem) is a recipe to transform not only the software development team but the whole
company into an organization where all decisions are made based on facts, not opinion. New
products are build much faster at much higher quality, features are determined based on data from
real customers, and on top, development costs are greatly reduced. The steps are simple, the
R&D organization organizes itself to deploy software much faster and get feedback from the field
automatically, product management organization analyzes the feedback makes product decisions
based on evidence and the company transitions from internally focused to ecosystem-centric
allowing to focus on their core competencies and outsource all activities that are not strategic.
Any professional involved in advanced software development must read this book.”
—Metin Ismail Taskin, CTO AirTies
CHAPMAN & HALL/CRC INNOVATIONS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Speed, Data, and Ecosystems
Excelling in a Software-Driven World
Jan Bosch
Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden
CRC Press
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