This book provides essential insights on the adoption of modern
software engineering practices at large companies producing
software-intensive systems, where hundreds or even thousands of
engineers collaborate to deliver on new systems and new versions of
already deployed ones. It is based on the findings collected and
lessons learned at the Software Center (SC), a unique collaboration
between research and industry, with Chalmers University of
Technology, Gothenburg University and Malmoe University as academic
partners and Ericsson, AB Volvo, Volvo Car Corporation, Saab
Electronic Defense Systems, Grundfos, Axis Communications, Jeppesen
(Boeing) and Sony Mobile as industrial partners. The 17 chapters
present the "Stairway to Heaven" model, which represents the
typical evolution path companies move through as they develop and
mature their software engineering capabilities. The chapters
describe theoretical frameworks, conceptual models and, most
importantly, the industrial experiences gained by the partner
companies in applying novel software engineering techniques. The
book's structure consists of six parts. Part I describes the model
in detail and presents an overview of lessons learned in the
collaboration between industry and academia. Part II deals with the
first step of the Stairway to Heaven, in which R&D adopts agile
work practices. Part III of the book combines the next two phases,
i.e., continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), as
they are closely intertwined. Part IV is concerned with the highest
level, referred to as "R&D as an innovation system," while Part
V addresses a topic that is separate from the Stairway to Heaven
and yet critically important in large organizations: organizational
performance metrics that capture data, and visualizations of the
status of software assets, defects and teams. Lastly, Part VI
presents the perspectives of two of the SC partner companies. The
book is intended for practitioners and professionals in the
software-intensive systems industry, providing concrete models,
frameworks and case studies that show the specific challenges that
the partner companies encountered, their approaches to overcoming
them, and the results. Researchers will gain valuable insights on
the problems faced by large software companies, and on how to
effectively tackle them in the context of successful cooperation
projects.
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