Software Entrepreneurship Project
Objectives
This course aims at providing students with the opportunity to apply the skills acquired throughout their curriculum in order to conceive and launch a software product or service using the principles of "lean start-ups".
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- Identify and analyze a problem to be solved by means of a software product or service
- Explain why current solutions do not address the identified problem(s) or why a new solution is needed
- Articulate how the identified problem(s) will be solved by an envisioned software product or service
- Define who are the potential users of a new product or service
- Formulate and validate a product vision and a business model
- Translate a product vision into a software prototype/Minimum Viable Product (MVP) using an agile development method
- Apply the "Customer Development Framework" to incrementally refine an initial product or service
- Define a business model that takes into account the requirements of suppliers and other partners.
Brief description of content
The course covers the following topics:
- Discovering customer problems
- Defining a "value proposition" for a product/service
- Validating a value proposition
- Translating product vision into a software prototype/Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Attracting customers and creating demand
- Articulating a business model
Target group
The students of master's curriculum
Other information
This course is a practical course partly merged with the business development programme STARTER as it provides access to mentors, startup network and business ideas competition. All relevant communication and updated information are in Moodle. For more information, turn to the course supervisor!