Software Capability
- Software capability analysis
- Software capability development and improvement
- Management of capability development programs
Team-building and coaching
- Management system development for IT organizations
- Management team couching
- Facilitation of team-building events
Software business
- How to manage a software company successfully
- Strategy formulation
- Business models
- Business capability creation and development
- Technical due diligence reviews
- Value-based software engineering
Sales
- Selling of research projects to industry
- Identifying customer needs and developing and strong value proposition to match them
- Management of sales process and sales activity
Software risk management
- Methods, techniques and tools for software risk management
- Using risk management in project management
- Risk management system development
- Risk management coaching
- Risk management competence development
Process improvement
- Methods and guidelines for identification of improvement needs
- Planning improvements and implementing improvement programs.
Management of software processes and projects
- Process asset management
- Project planning
- Project control
- Project management methods and techniques.
Process management and modeling
- Process ownership and responsibilities
- Documenting the software process, information content, notations
- Use of process models for workflow support.
Technology and R&D management
- How to introduce new technologies,
- How to initiate and manage R&D projects
- How to make sure that R&D efforts support business needs
- Protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) associated with research results and software.
Software reuse and component based development
- Understanding and modeling the process of reuse
- reuse of the software processes
- The OTSO method is often cited as one of the first and most comprehensive methods for COTS selection; also frequently cited in the SEI reports on COTS as well as cited as “seminal work” in the area
Knowledge management
- How to elicit and model knowledge of a corporation
- How to validate and generalize such knowledge
- How to package and disseminate such knowledge.
Empirical research methods
- Defining research approaches that efficiently utilize empirical information, both qualitative and quantitative
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