Paper Info
Title
Lean Software Startup - An Experience Report from an Entrepreneurial Software Business Course.
Abstract
This paper offers blueprints for and reports upon three years experience from teaching the university course "Lean Software Startup" for information technology and economics students. The course aims to give a learning experience on ideation/innovation and subsequent product and business development using the lean startup method. The course educates the students in software business, entrepreneurship, teamwork and the lean startup method. The paper describes the pedagogical design and practical implementation of the course in sufficient detail to serve as an example of how entrepreneurship and business issues can be integrated into a software engineering curriculum. The course is evaluated through learning diaries and a questionnaire, as well as the primary teacher's learnings in the three course instances. We also examine the course in the context of CDIO and show its connection points to this broader engineering education framework. Finally we discuss the challenges and opportunities of engaging students with different backgrounds in a hands-on entrepreneurial software business course.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-19593-3_21
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Software entrepreneurship,Education,Software business,Lean startup,CDIO
Teamwork,Software business,Entrepreneurship,Lean startup,Information technology,Lean software development,Engineering education,CDIO,Engineering,Marketing,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
210
1865-1348
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antero Järvi1585.74
Ville Taajamaa241.17
Sami Hyrynsalmi314532.53