The Art of Sofware Innovation at ISPIM 2011

Minna Pikkarainen, Wim Codenie and myself will be hosting a workshop during the ISPIM conference in Hamburg on from Jun 12th till 15th in Hamburg, Germany. You can find more info over on their website.

During our interactive workshop on Wednessday afternoon, Wim, Minna and myself will discuss the following topics:

• Increasing need for innovation management at software builders.
• Challenges related to blending software engineering with innovation management.
• The 8 practice areas of software innovation
• Open Space Session around some selected practice areas, with the goal to receive feedback, harvest practices and research in the area.

Results of the workshop will be posted later on on the blog. If you happen to be there, please feel free to join our workshop.

Hope to see you there.

Nick Boucart works as a technology advisor for the software engineering group of Sirris, the collective center for the Belgian technology industry. The Software Engineering group focuses on the challenges faced by Belgian software intensive product builders. The group conducts industry driven research around those challenges and actively participates in different (international) research projects on topics like flexible software development, managing product variability and software innovation. Nick’s focus is mostly on flexible and agile software development and on community driven innovation for software intensive product builders. You can follow Nick on Twitter (@NickBoucart).