Center for Organization & Information

Graduation procedure

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Agenda

Procedure of a final thesis project

Research domains and projects

Research Group Organisation and Information Prof: Prof.dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper

UHD: Dr. Ronald Batenburg

UD: Dr.ir. Remko Helms UD: Dr. Slinger Jansen UD: Dr. Marco Spruit UD: Dr. Fabiano Dalpiaz UD: Dr. mult Jan Martijn van der Werf UD: Dr. Floris Bex UD: Dr. Wienand Omta

PHD: Jurriaan van Reijsen PHD: Gilbert Silvius PHD: Ralph Foorthuis PHD: Marlies van Steenbergen PHD: Willem Bekkers PHD: Naser Bakshi PHD: Eko Handoyo PHD: Erik Jagroep PHD: Jaap Kabbedijk PHD: Ravi Khadka PHD: Ivonne Mangula PHD: Michiel Meulendijk PHD: Kevin Vlaanderen

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Research theme

Product Software:

Methodology of Development, Implementation, and Entrepreneurship

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Research framework

Product Strategy

Sales and Services

Strategic Management • Product investment • Resource management • International organization

Development • Programming • Testing • Config. management

Deployment

• Beta and Launch • Documentation • Upgrading

Usage

• Installation • Licensing • Usage feedback

Requirements Architecture • Release Planning

• Design methods • Product lines

• Market analysis • Product lifecycle management • Technology management

• Services portfolio • Marketing • Localization and customizations

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Process & Quality

Laws and Regulations

• Intellectual property • Import & Export

Entrepreneurship • Start-ups • Business models • Business culture

Economy

Resource Provisioning • Technology • Educational system • Capital

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• Methods and Project Mgmt ● Knowledge management ● Quality systems

• Markets • Industry structures

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Society is our lab!

MBI research master

Participation in scientific research

Collecting data

Empirical validation

Experimentation in practice

Writing scientific paper

You are our lab workers!

Work under the supervision of experienced researchers

Employers will greatly appreciate scientific grounded research work!

Lead research investigations

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Graduation - Principles

Scientific contribution

– In sync with the group’s research interest

– Resulting in scientific paper

Societal contribution

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Graduation – Guidelines 1

General thesis project coordination: Slinger

www.cs.uu.nl/groups/OI (Education -> Graduation) for detailed guidelines

40 ECTS + 4 ECTS (MBI Colloquium) + 1 ECTS (Intro2MBI)

1 A4 with thesis description; Scope and subject in sync with group’s research interests

Thesis proposal document

Deliverables:

– Thesis document

– (Scientific) paper

– As desired by company

– Active participation and presentations MBI Colloquium

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Graduation – Guidelines 2

Internal and external projects

2 supervisors from UU; 1 or more from the company

Start only after approval of thesis proposal document by all supervisors

Thesis: societal AND scientific contribution

Thesis evaluation criteria available

Thesis examination:

– Thesis document, paper

– Thesis defence/presentation

– Based on evaluation criteria

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Thesis project – approach (1)

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Research strategy Goal Approach Data-type Analysis

Qualitative Explore. What is X? What does X mean? Interpretation and Induction.

Texts, photo’s, observations, interviews. Flexible, fast.

Qualitative and quantitative data on one particular case.

Qualitative methods, group, compare, cluster.

Survey Describe, how many, how often, to what degree. Explanatory and testing.

Standardized interviews, broad, general.

Responses to variables from many respondents.

SPSS, Uni- en multivariate analysis of a datamatrix

Experimental Causal relations. Why is X. Testing and/or explanatory

Laboratory situation

Information for a limited number of variables and respondents

Analysis of differences

Design Innovation, Improve

Investigate, apply, create, invent

Models, prototype, feedback

Empirical validation

Thesis project – approach (2)

Research question

Problem statement

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Discussion and

Conclusion

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CH2 CH3

CH4

CH5

CH6 CH7

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Thesis Contents Arc

• CH1: Short introduction into subject matter

• CH2: Problem statement, research question, research method, validity defence

• CH3: Usually the literature study that already answers several sub questions.

• CH4-CH…: Several conducted activities and results from those activities to provide (partial) answers to the sub questions. Includes result analysis chapters.

• CH7: Discuss how the research method and the research in general went. Describe at least whether this research method chosen was appropriate. Point out weaknesses in the research.

• CH8: Generally a short chapter summarizing all the sub questions and the answers to them. Also a place to describe future work (if not in H7).

Traceability • Make sure that:

– The research questions follow from the problem statement

– The research methods follow from the research questions

– The data follows from the research methods – The analysis follows from the data – The conclusions follow from the analysis – Such that:

• The conclusions solve the problem statement! • (tip: imagine what the end-result is going to be

from the very beginning.)

Some pitfalls • Research theme too broad or not innovative

– Example “e-Health in Europe and the US”

– Example “Critical Success Factors for ERP Implementation”

• Research company not innovative – Develop a functional and technical design for an admin system

– Implement Sharepoint for us, and make sure it’s adopted

• Research theme too far from profs interest – Example: Economic drivers for small accountancy firms (IT?)

• Too much work – I made an overview of all the literature, and it cost me 6 months

• Slow start means slow ending – Well, I finished my long proposal after four months, but now I think I’ll work much faster

• “But the company is so interesting, they offered me a job already!”

• “I am almost done, all I have to do is write the thesis.”

• “I don’t care about the topic, as long as I can become a consultant.”

• http://mbiprojects.wordpress.com/ • http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/OI/index.php?id=

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And now for the individual presentations

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Sjaak Brinkkemper Research Interests Methodology of product software development Method Engineering ICT Entrepreneurship and Software Industry

Finished projects Requirements engineering decision making: decision characteristics for

product change requests (Jaap Kabbedijk @ Lund University) An implementation method for disease management software (Juliette van

Hövell @ VitalHealth) The difference between proJEct management and proDUct management

(Christina Manteli @ internal) A knowledge infrastructure for product software development (Baldur

Kristjansson@ Levi9) Running projects SPM competence model for product line development (@ CCV)

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Open projects Sjaak Brinkkemper Product Software 1. Software licensing and contracting in multi-tenant on-line software 2. Financial estimations for the ICT start-up business model 3. Models for export of on-line software products 4. Success patterns in ICT entrepreneurship, a comparison between India, US and

Europe (IIIT, Hyderabad) 5. Determinants of success or failure of venture capital driven ICT start-ups versus self-

starters 6. Quality estimations for Functional Architectures 7. Outsourcing in the Software Industry: Knowledge infrastructures and Product

knowledge centers Software Product Management 1. Effectiveness of Scrum for Product Management 2. Situational methods for product roadmapping and portfolio management 3. The interplay of requirements and architecture in very large scale requirements

engineering 4. Linguistic techniques in requirements organization

Method Engineering 1. E-Method – a Online Method Engine for situational method support 2. Method mash-ups– combining tools in methods

Slinger’s research ServiciFi – Modernizing legacy applications

Product as a Service – Offering customized multi-tenant SaaS applications

VisualizeKo – Visualizing software ecosystems

CoCoDeploy – Composition and Configuration of Model Driven Applications in Ecosystem Architectures

Themes

Entrepreneurship

Case study research methods

Software ecosystems

Ecosystem architectures

Model driven architecture

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Available Topics (Slinger)

Modeling the Games Ecosystem

Mining software repositories for software ecosystem health determination

Measuring the speed of innovation in software ecosystems

Determining the decomposability of legacy systems

Visualizing Software Operation Knowledge at AFAS

Creating a maturity matrix for Customer Configuration Updating practices

Financial modeling for software ecosystems

Software ecosystem modeling

Pattern Adoption in the Product Software Industry

Servicification for Multi-tenancy

Software Ecosystem Suitability Metrics

Model Driven Software Development

Dynamic App Composition

Several Ecosystem Projects at Uni-Darmstadt, Finland – Jyvaskyla uni, UCL, SAP @ Walldorf, etc.

Several entrepreneurship related topics (at UtrechtInc. or Rockstart) 21

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Example project: RockStart What’s the next most known challenge for a startup

after an accelerator program? Where in a startups’ life cycle are the founders normally experiencing the biggest challenges?

Is there space for a growth accelerator? Who normally steps in to help growth startups- and is the current model sufficient?

Where in Eastern Europe would be the best place to start an accelerator? Analysis of Government funding, Angel investors, VCs and private equity funds?

Which continents are going to be the most interesting markets within the next ten years in terms of technology development within e.g. cloud-based services, big data, mobility, energy etc. ?

What business model are business-accelerators using when scaling the concept and what kind of services do they include? (E.g. Licensing, non-profit, Joint venture).

What are the next ‘trend’ within startup initiatives. What’s the next for-profit initiative after accelerator?

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Generating Creative Mobile Applications

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Multi-tenancy @ Microsoft Copenhagen

How to scale up an ERP application?

Host multiple customers per server?

Host multiple databases per client?

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Product Management Challenges at Stabiplan

How to deal with “formal” requirements?

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Fabiano Dalpiaz

Research interests – Design of socio-technical systems

• Not only software, but people and organizations too!

– Requirements Engineering • How to elicit, model, and analyze

requirements?

– Game production • Requirements, architectures, release,

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Fabiano’s thesis topics

Production of serious games: from craft to discipline

Requirements engineering for games: how to conduct it effectively?

On the role of reuse in the production of games: towards games product lines

How much are socio-technical factors taken into account in software design?

Modeling real socio-technical systems: how do they work, why do they work, how can we make them work better?

Security in game production: the sooner, the more secure!

More topics are available, and your ideas are welcome!

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Cognitieve gedragstherapie (voor insomnia) via mobiele applicaties

Ontwikkeling en implementatie van persuasieve strategieën

Toepassing van sensoren en sociale netwerken

Ontwikkeling van onderzoeksinfrastructuur

Voor meer informatie: Robbert Jan Beun (R.J.Beun@uu.nl)

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Arjan de Kok Research Topic

The New Way of Working (Het Nieuwe Werken)

and the role of ICT & Knowledge Management

New working principles (result driven)

ICT (media use, BYOD)

KM (information sharing, channel choice)

Potential project ICT use & optimization

– Which ICT tools best support NWOW and how can they be optimized in a specific situation to improve NWOW implementations?

– (Multiple) Case study at companies using NWOW

Information storage & usage – Which information is essential for the knowledge worker and how can this information best be

stored and used in a NWOW environment?

Contact: a.dekok@uu.nl

Recent projects (Marco Spruit)

Research interests – Business Intelligence (esp. Data analytics in Health care)

– Information security

Some recent example MSc theses: – Farro,Darrel (2013/08/23). The Healthcare No-show

Reduction Method. @UMC Utrecht

– Shen, Zhengru (Ian) (2013/03/22). Knowledge discovery in high throughput screening: Creating a data mining techniques selection framework. @UMC Utrecht/Cell Screening Center

– Peersman,Hans (2013/01/29). Preventing Data Breaches by Proactive Data mining. @Deloitte

Open projects: http://m.spru.it/edu/msc/open

Example open project (Marco Spruit)

MS2013-04: Medical sequencing

– Next-gen DNA sequencing technology

– Cheaply and quickly read off the DNA of patients on a large scale.

– UMC Utrecht is working on a service model for effective and efficient next-generation sequencing for a wide variety of medical applications, for different departments that use DNA technology in their diagnosis, including medical genetics, pathology, microbiology, and immunology.

– Process modeling, data modeling, business/service modeling, scenario building, requirements engineering, etc

“Towards the 1,000 dollar genome”! – Cheap: <€1,000

– Fast: <1 day

– Large scale: >1,000 persons

Ronald Batenburg

Two affiliations – Program leader, at the Netherlands Institute for Health

Services Research (NIVEL)

– Associate professor, here at the MBI-program and the-group-of-Sjaak

Three research interests

– IS/IT implementation in health care organizations – E-health and m-health – Serious games in health

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IS/IT implementation in health care organizations

Project opportunities:

At NIVEL (Utrecht): the quality and innovation potential of information systems for General Practitioners

At ForCare (Zeist): standards and interoperability issues in Information Health Exchange (IHE)

At Julius/UMCU (Utrecht): user experiences after a ‘big bang’ hospital information system implementation

At ICT/UMCU (Utrecht): enterprise architecture, lean, process optimization, IT-supported health care pathways

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E-health and m-health Project opportunities:

At SynAppz (Zaltbommel): personalized apps to support

doctors and patients in primary care

At Unovate/UMCU (Utrecht): a framework for the evaluation, feasibility study and business modeling of medical apps

At NIVEL (Utrecht): apps for self-diagnosis: do they work and what are the effects on health and health care consumption?

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Serious games in health Project opportunities:

At Erasmus MC (Rotterdam): a serious game for

emergency care training

At Unovate/UMCU (Utrecht): a serious game to support urotherapy for children (developed at the WKZ)

At NIVEL (Utrecht): a serious management game for General Practitioners in training

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Remko Helms

Research interests – Collaboration and knowledge sharing in

(online) networks – Social Media and Web 2.0 – User Innovation in Virtual Worlds

Running/finished projects (examples) – Who reads corporate tweets? Composition and structure of

Twitter communities – Social media strategies for product software companies – Impacts of implementing Enterprise Content Management – Knowledge Broker Backbone – Design and implementation

of a global network of knowledge stewards – Model for e-Service Innovation in Virtual Worlds

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You have got followers! – Unit4

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Open projects (Remko Helms)

Follow up of: Mining Twitter networks of Europe’s top 25 software companies

Gamification of IT training at Dutch Railways Release and capacity planing in software development

‘streets’ at Dutch Railways Growth in in-company Yammer networks (Univ of

Sydney0 Projects with PhDs

– Arjan de Kok: Monitor for New Ways of Work (survey) – Gerard Wagenaar: Role of artefacts in knowledge sharing in Agile

Software Development (case studies)

Going abroad? – Good contacts in Sweden (innovation processes in virtual worlds),

Canada (communication global sw development teams), and Australia (KM/social media) for accommodating thesis projects abroad

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End of the individual presentations

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Graduating as an Entrepreneur

For those students in the Entrepreneurial profile it is possible to have a graduation project that is close to the needs of the product or company.

Several MBI students have graduated already in this profile – Rick van Bommel: A maturity matrix for SEO – Wilco van Duinkerken: Transaction Cost Economics in Software

Ecosystems – Ivo van Soest: Business Modeling for Software Products – Floris Vlasveld: E-business Strategy Development A Reference

Method Created by Formal Method Comparison

Interested students should contact Slinger Jansen or Sjaak Brinkkemper for a suitable graduation topic.

Becoming a researcher

We are very interested in assisting those who are interested in pursuing a PhD

Qualifications: Having fun in doing research and writing papers Average grade in research related courses > 7.5 or 8 Grade of graduation project > 8 Independence in writing paper from thesis

For a PhD project there are several options: At University

– Requires project with funding – At UU, NL university or abroad

At company in a 20%-80% or 40%-60% work division

Those interested in pursuing a PhD should make an appointment

with Sjaak Brinkkemper

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Final remarks

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