As software RandD investment increases, the benefits from short feedback cycles using technologies such as continuous deployment, experimentation-based development, and multidisciplinary teams require a fundamentally different strategy and process. This book will cover the three overall challenges that companies are grappling with: speed, data and ecosystems. Speed deals with shortening the cycle time in RandD. Data deals with increasing the use of and benefit from the massive amounts of data that companies collect. Ecosystems address the transition of companies from being internally focused to being ecosystem oriented by analyzing what the company is uniquely good at and where it adds value.

"This book is a masterful exposition of how to develop large software programs, aimed at business leaders but useful to others…Many insights are presented in the book…It is clearly written, with helpful guidance to the reader. I highly recommend it for its insight and scope."
—B. Hazeltine, Computing Reviews

"This book is a masterful exposition of how to develop large software programs, aimed at business leaders but useful to others…Many insights are presented in the book…It is clearly written, with helpful guidance to the reader. I highly recommend it for its insight and scope."
—B. Hazeltine, Computing Reviews

In the spring of 2011, after 8 years in industry, Jan Bosch returned to academia as a professor of software engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Earlier, he worked as VP Engineering Process and VP Open Innovation for Intuit in Mountain View, California. Prior to joining Intuit, he worked for several years at Nokia Research Center. Before that, he was a full professor of Software Engineering at the University of Groningen. His main research interests are in software architecture assessment, design and representation, software product lines, including variability management, organizational approaches and product family architecture design, design erosion, component-oriented software engineering, object-oriented frameworks and design patterns.