"SDE offers a fascinating and well-researched overview of the major trends in the software industry. If you want to survive as a software company in the 21st century, add this wonderful book to your reading list."
– Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and Managing for Happiness
"Jan Bosch has a unique background with both leading academic expertise and a profound industry experience, and utilizing his knowledge and ideas in conjunction with digitalization will result in great improvements and export values for Swedish companies. Jan Bosch is a pioneer in how he systematically demonstrates the strength of changing the perspective for working with software. He shows how new services, products and value is created by drawing on the deep knowledge software developers have of customers, coupled with tools such as software architecture knowledge and ways of working, user feedback and data collection."
– Ingrid Nordmark (CEO Swedish Institute for Computer Science)
"Jan Bosch has compiled a book that describes the challenges and the opportunities all industries are facing connected to the increasing importance of software. The book addresses the dynamics in the world: changing needs, technology development and also globalization where new competitors appears and existing competitors reach new markets rapidly. These challenges requires speed, use of data (facts) for effective decision making and also clever use of collaborations with external organisations in s.c. eco-systems. Fortunately, the book also describes ways to meet these challenges and how to concretely achieve speed, use of data and effective use of eco-systems of partners. I really like the approach that the book takes to first describe the challenges and drivers for change, the why, in a management or strategy book manner, and then describe how and by who to meet these challenges in a way that engineers and practitioners can relate to. This means that this book is an excellent tool for a dialogue within a company between general management, middle management and senior engineers – which in fact is an imperative to survive in the future."
– Stefan Andersson, Director Future Aircraft Systems at Saab AB and Chairman of Swedsoft (www.swedsoft.se)
"The excellent book of Speed, Data and Ecosystems by Jan Bosch captures the essence for any industry and company that is in the process of transforming into a digital future. Jan Bosch builds his knowledge based on academic research and experience from the industry combining this into a holistic approach how to work with software leveraging from the opportunities and meeting the challenges.
The practices of agility, continuous integration and how to capture and manage the value of data that will turn into services and products combined with the need for speed in a collaborative way of working is an excellent opportunity to stimulate a needed dialog on many levels within a company."
– Mats Melander, Director Automation Solutions at Tetra Pak
"In an ever-changing world we all need to strive for speed with accuracy. Doing so can easily drive you and your company on bad paths and this is why evidence based software development becomes so crucial. Jan Bosch's book is a great read for anyone that want to make sure they build what actually has the intended impact on their business let alone doing it with great speed and minimal investment.
– David Rejdemyhr, Engineering Manager Klarna.
"If you're interested in how to manage things in R&D intensive companies, this is the book for you. You get a bleeding edge overview of the latest theories and models and how it all fits together. Best of all, it’s easy to read and it’s full of relevant practical ideas that I can use in my daily work. One thing is sure, I will be handing out copies of the book at my company."
– Pontus Bergendahl, Manager FW development at Axis Communications
