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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.

All the community resources are contributed by its members and capture their collective experience, knowledge, and wisdom. [more...]


News

Monday, June 15th, 2009

  • Steven Fraser and David G. Messerschmitt will hold the Keynotes at Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement ( PROFES2009 ) conference! The topics are: The Consumer Juggernaut: Web-based and Mobile Applications as Innovation Pioneer and Software “Best” Practices: Agile Deconstructed. All the details are here.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

  • SWBC will be present at the upcoming Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES) conference! This year's PROFES2009 is held in Oulu, Finland.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

  • A survey examining how small and medium-sized software firms respond to recession will start soon. The survey targets Finnish software companies and is carried out by Helsinki University of Technology's Software Business Lab. Learn more about the survey here!

Sunday, June 7th, 2009


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."

David G. Messerschmitt, one of the founders of SWBCommunity.org




Get started!

  1. First browse around our community to see what is available. Among the more interesting neighborhoods are our encyclopedia and book.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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 .

Grow the community!

There are easy ways to help us grow the community.

We currently have 352 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.


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