Establishing partnerships between software enterprises and students´product development
Establishing partnerships between software enterprises and students´product development
Stakeholders:
Objective of approach:
- Reduce development time of software
- Increase software quality early
- Provide high-end software solutions for students´ product development projects
Innovative software solutions for applications (e.g. innovations platforms) in product development often need a long-time evaluation. Providing these software solutions to students´ development projects to get early feedback by test users is one way to push up market entry. This helps the students to receive access to software they otherwise couldn´t afford. On the other hand the feedback by so-called digital natives which use the software under realistic conditions unhides all kinds of weaknesses and helps to improve the software solutions.
USP:
Use high potential students within product development projects as beta-users for high-end software solutions.
Resources:
- Software solution
- Continuos information flow between students and software developer
Success factors:
- Provide posibilities for fast feedback from users to developers
- Provide information about how the feedback will be used or why it won't be used for transparency and motivational reasons
Contact information:
IPEK - Institute of product engineering, Kaiserstrasse 10, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Workflow:
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