Center for Organization & Information

Graduation procedure

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Agenda

Procedure of a final thesis project

Research domains and projects

Research GroupOrganisation and Information Prof: Prof.dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper

UHD: Dr. Ronald Batenburg

UD: Prof.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: Eko Handoyo PHD: Erik Jagroep PHD: Ravi Khadka PHD: Ivonne Mangula PHD: Michiel Meulendijk

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Research theme

Product Software:

Methodology of Development, Implementation, and Entrepreneurship

Development

Methodology

Implementation

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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

Company

perspective

Development

Perspective

Process & Quality

Laws and Regulations• Intellectual property• Import & Export

Entrepreneurship

• Start-ups• Business models• Business culture

EconomyResource Provisioning

• Technology• Educational system• Capital

Societal

Perspective

• 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

Problemstatement

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Discussion and

Conclusion

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CH2CH2CH3CH3

CH4CH4

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CH6CH6 CH7CH7

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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 Software1. Software licensing and contracting in multi-tenant on-line software2. Financial estimations for the ICT start-up business model3. Models for export of on-line software products4. 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-starters6. Quality estimations for Functional Architectures7. Outsourcing in the Software Industry: Knowledge infrastructures and

Product knowledge centers

Software Product Management1. Effectiveness of Scrum for Product Management2. Situational methods for product roadmapping and portfolio management3. The interplay of requirements and architecture in very large scale

requirements engineering4. Linguistic techniques in requirements organization

Method Engineering1. E-Method – a Online Method Engine for situational method support2. Method mash-ups– combining tools in methods

Slinger’s research 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

Software business

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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

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)

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My Contacts @

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Master thesis SleepCare

Contact person: Robbert Jan Beunwww.ikgalekkerslapen.nl

Mobile coachingDomain: Sleep therapy

Domain sleep therapy•The role of sensor measurement•Dialogue design in mobile systems•Design of mobile exercises•Avatars for mobile coaching•Persuasive techniques and virtual coaching•Momentary assessment for sleep•Feasibility study for valorization•And many more …

Fabiano Dalpiaz

Research interests

– Design of socio-technical systems

• Not only software, but people andorganizations too!

– Gamified Software Engineering

• How to turn software engineering intoa participatory and engaging activity?

– Game production

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Some Running/completed projects

Gamified tutorials: the case of operations research (H. Constantin)

Designing secure software systems (N. Argyropoulos) will start a PhD at U Brighton, UK

Crowd-centric requirements engineering (R. Snijders) already a workshop paper in the first part of the thesis, trip to U Bournemouth, UK

Modeling the product environment (T. Muelders)

Requirements engineering for serious games (T. Katsikarelis)

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Fabiano’s thesis topics

Production of serious games: from craft to discipline

Requirements engineering for games: how is it different?

Reuse in game production: towards games product lines

Gamifying the software engineering process

Crowdsourcing as a novel computational paradigm

Gamified software tutorials

Crowd-centric requirements engineering

More topics are available, and your ideas are welcome!

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Marco Spruit

Recent MSc theses:

Cepoi,Alex (2014/08/21). A Reference Architecture for a Dynamic Competitive Intelligence Solution. (Jibes)

Vlug,Bas (2014/06/26). Effective and Efficient Classification of Topically-Enriched Domain-Specific Text Snippets. (AFAS)

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

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Graduation projects

Jan Martijn van der Werf

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Jan Martijn van der Werf

Research interests Software architecture Architectural intelligence Modeling & architecture

PhD students Erik Jagroep: Sustainability in Software Architecting Leo Pruijt: Architecture reconstruction Garm Lucassen: on the relation between SPM, RE and SA

(together with Fabiano Dalpiaz)

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Software Architecture

“The set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both.”

Example topics: Evolution in Software Architecture Modeling Relation between RE and SA Role and impact of SA at Independent Software Vendors Architecture reconstruction Modeling behavior (scenarios) in SA Effect of cloudification on SA

Example projects Method for functional software product evolution (@AFAS) Dynamics of Software Product Management & SA On the relation between Functional Architecture and APM

(@Nedtrain)

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Architectural Intelligence

Use of execution data of software to analyze and improve (the quality of) software architecture

Specifying and modeling of quality attributes in Software Architecture

Process & data mining on running software Software Operations Knowledge

Example projects Software operation Knowledge to improve software

architecture (@AFAS) Greener Software by means of the Software

Architecture (@Centric)

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)

Example projects- Kok, A. de, Koop, J., and Helms, R. W. (2014).

Asessing the New Way of Working : Bricks, Bytes and Behavior. @PACIS2014- Kok, A. de., Bellefroid, B. & Helms, R.W. (2013). Knowledge Sharing and Channel Choice: Effects of the New Way of Working. @ECKM2013

Potential projects (Arjan de Kok) ICT use & optimization

– Which ICT tools support NWOW best 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?

Knowledge sharing in the NWOW environment

– How is knowledge / information shared between knowledge workers and what is needed to improve knowledge sharing in an NWOW environment ?

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Remko Helms

Research interests

– Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration in Online Networks

– Social Media Strategy & Web Analytics

Running/finished projects (examples)

– Social media strategies of product software companies @Truffle100 companies

– Growing online communities: interaction patterns in sustainable online communities @KvK @Sydney University

– Tie strength model for reconstructing collaboration networks @Github

– Gamification of IT training @NS– Social Engineering @EY (and their clients)

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Example: Patterns in growing online communities

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Open Projects (Remko Helms)

Knowledge sharing patterns in online communities @KVK and other data sets

Open Data as driver for Innovation (NWO KIEM Kiem grant with ‘Big Data School’ of UU)– 2 students (full-time) and teaching assistantship

available

Projects at Vellekoop & Meesters in non-profit on ICT strategy, chain management and social media

Social engineering assessment method @EY

Social Media Strategy @Budeco

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Contacts (Remko Helms)

Contacts at various consultancy companies small and large

Contacts abroad– University of Melbourne (Australia) – Knowledge

and content management– Victoria University (Canada) – Collaboration

patterns in open source projects– Stockholm School of Economics – Crowd sourcing &

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Ronald Batenburg

Profile

– Employed for 1 day a week at UU/MBI– Employed for 4 days a week at the Netherlands

institute for Health Services research (NIVEL)– Background in social and organization sciences,

quantitative research methods, surveys Research interests

– IS/IT implementation in health care organizations• Why are IS/IT implementation in health care so difficult to manage? How can doctors

and nurses become happy instead of frustrated users of IT?

– E-health, m-health and serious games in health• What is being offered to the public as on-line health information sources and tools?

Does m-health improve prevention and healthy behavior? How can we study its effectiveness?

• How can serious games improve the training of healthcare professionals? How can it support the management of healthcare organizations?

Teaching

– Thesis supervision– Seminar Medical Informatics (period 3)

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Thesis projects in/for health care organizations

At UMCU, ICT Directorate (Utrecht): Research on CheckIT, an add-on of the Hospital Information System to support clinical pathway processes in oncology, vessel surgery and cystic fibrosis in children

Research on an iterative, user-centered m-health application for lung patients, including design conceptualization, end-user research, prototyping, alpha and field-usability testing

The opportunities for enterprise architecture, lean, process optimization, IT-supported health care pathways

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Thesis projects in/for health care organizations

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

Information Systems for General Practitioners: what determines their use and added value?

When do General Practitioners subscribe medical apps?

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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

The Center’s website: www.cs.uu.nl/groups/OI– News– MBI-Colloquium information– Education -> Graduation information– GraduateMBI@cs.uu.nl