I-Corps: Improving software project outcomes

I-Corps：提高软件项目成果

• 批准号: 1550871
• 负责人: Daniel Sturtevant
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-15 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550871&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Improving; software; project; outcomes

There is an overwhelming chance that any long-lived software project will be troubled or will fail. As a result, billions of dollars are wasted worldwide. It is believed that softwarecomplexity is a key factor. Code complexity, which sometimes grows unsustainably over time, can significantly affect developers, thereby impacting risk, revenue generation, productivity, cost, and business survival. Over the past 10 years, this I-Corps team has done quantitative work linking architectural degradation to business outcomes. This team has created financial models linking software architecture and software economics data, and tools that can help technologists evaluate and address high-value problems. This I-Corps team believes that the proposed technologies, which could give managers the ability to understand, monitor, estimate, and address code problems and the resulting business impact, could create significant financial value. This team aims to systematically explore the market potential of the proposed research and technologies by doing iterative customer discovery and validation using techniques pioneered by Steve Blank. The team also intends to use this process to pull insights gathered from potential customers directly into our prototype and product design process.During the first eight-week phase of the project, this team aims to interview 100-150 potential customers representative of important segments such as 'people in Fortune 1000 enterprises' and 'those doing diligence on software assets.' The team plans to interview SMEs in person, using teleconferencing technology, and at conferences such as the 'Agile Alliance' event in early August 2015. The goal of this process will be to determine if market potential exists and to identify important early beachheads. The team will use the business model canvas method to capture information about segments, value ropositions, channels, partners, customer relationships, etc. Another team goal is to learn how to manage a routinized outreach process that could later be used to drive a disciplined sales effort. In adition, the team will rapidly create and refine prototypes and technology demonstrations to show people in key segments. The goal of these prototypes will be to illustrate the potential of the proposed technology and get market and product feedback. This I-Corps project will dramatically improve and accelerate the team?s ability to identify (if it exists) the market potential for a decade of academic research.

任何长期存在的软件项目都极有可能遇到麻烦或失败。结果，全世界浪费了数十亿美元。软件的复杂性被认为是一个关键因素。代码复杂性有时会随着时间的推移而不可持续地增长，这会严重影响开发人员，从而影响风险，收入，生产力，成本和业务生存。在过去的10年里，这个I-Corps团队已经完成了将架构退化与业务成果联系起来的定量工作。该团队创建了将软件架构和软件经济数据联系起来的财务模型，以及可以帮助技术人员评估和解决高价值问题的工具。I-Corps团队认为，所提出的技术可以使管理人员能够理解、监控、估计和解决代码问题以及由此产生的业务影响，从而创造重大的财务价值。该团队的目标是通过使用Steve Blank开创的技术进行迭代客户发现和验证，系统地探索拟议研究和技术的市场潜力。该团队还打算利用这一过程将从潜在客户那里收集到的见解直接引入我们的原型和产品设计过程。在项目的前八周阶段，该团队的目标是采访100-150名代表重要细分市场的潜在客户，例如“财富1000强企业的人”和“那些对软件资产进行尽职调查的人”。该团队计划亲自采访中小企业，使用电话会议技术，并在2015年8月初的“敏捷联盟”活动等会议上。这一过程的目标是确定市场潜力是否存在，并确定重要的早期滩头阵地。该团队将使用业务模型画布方法来捕获有关细分市场、价值定位、渠道、合作伙伴、客户关系等的信息。另一个团队目标是学习如何管理一个简化的外展流程，该流程以后可用于推动有纪律的销售工作。此外，该团队还将快速创建和完善原型和技术演示，以向关键领域的人们展示。这些原型的目标将是说明拟议技术的潜力，并获得市场和产品反馈。这个I-Corps项目将极大地改善和加速团队？的能力，以确定（如果存在）的市场潜力，为十年的学术研究。