A community of researchers, managers, practitioners, end-users. This is the definitive place to learn about software business.
Welcome!
SWBC is an online community connecting academics, industry managers, practitioners, and end-users globally.
The Encyclopedia of Software Business captures knowledge from traditional disciplines and applies it to software business. It captures the experience of managers, practitioners, and reports case studies with valuable lessons for everyone in the software business.
The book Foundations of Software Business will systematically capture the body of knowledge pertaining to software business. It is online, open access, edited and peer-reviewed, and written by expert authors.
All the community resources are contributed by its members and capture their collective experience, knowledge, and wisdom. [more...]
News
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
SWBC experienced a name server problem on November 18th relating to a change in hosting services. This may have lead to momentary problems accessing our site. Things are back to normal now, and SWBC is sorry for the inconvenience.
Monday, November 10th, 2008
The University of Oulu is offering a PhD Seminar on Software Business this march from 24.3. - 25.3.2009 in their Department of Information Processing Science. For more info and to sign up go here!
SWBC will be present at next years Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES) conference! This year's PROFES2008 was held in Monte Porzio Catone at Villa Mondragone, located in the hills south of Rome, Italy. We are proud to join PROFES2009 and are looking forward to sharing our ideas with everyone at that great occasion!
Get a quick tour!
Here researchers, managers, and end-users around the world can interact, collaborate, create and archive a unique body of knowledge, access many useful resources, and learn from one other."
First browse around our community to see what is available. Among the more interesting neighborhoods are our encyclopedia and book.
Edit an existing page to improve it. You will see see how our wiki-based platform (the same one used by Wikipedia) makes this easy. Before you can edit, you need to Sign Up!. This too is quick and easy (and free).
Create a new encyclopedia article on a topic that captures your special experience and expertise, or create a new page that tells us about an organization (probably yours!) with an interesting involvement in software business.
We are always there to help if you encounter any problems, check out the help pages or write a quick email to swbcadmin@swbcommunity.org .
We currently have 337 content pages. Observe this number grow rapidly!
Provide feedback!
The easiest way to pass on suggestions and feedback is through the "Discussion" page attached to each and every page
(click the "Discussion" button at the bottom of the screen).
General comments can be added to the discussion on this page, and specific comments to the page in question.
See contact information for other ways to communicate with us.
