Let talented Master Software Engineering students work on your software idea! As part of a course on Requirements Engineering, they will validate and work out your software idea. The goal is to advice you, based on data, on what value it delivers and whether the software solution is indeed needed.
A crucial part of software engineering is learning what software solution is needed and the value it will deliver to both the company and the users. Our students, with their background in IT, already have an understanding of what is possible. Using their analytical capability and working under guidance of experienced analysts and designers they can now do the research that is needed to come up with a solution that is of real value to you and your customers.
The teams will follow a basic plan:
Understand the vision and problem domain;
Map the territory: identify where necessary information can be found;
Validate the problem: what exactly is the problem that is being solved, to whom is it a problem, and how significant is it
Work out different solution scenarios
Design and, if time permits, run some experiments to test the most promising solution
✅ Key features of the challenge
Students per team: 4-10 students
Teams per challenge: 1-3 (when submitting indicate how many teams you prefer)
Course: Requirements Engineering
Programme: Software Engineering (UvA)
No. of hours spent per team (based on four students): 200 hours
Deliverables: Presentation, prototype and report with recommendations
Company time investment: Your time involvement is around 12 hours
Matching fee: €850,- (ex tax, charged by Master Challenge (NOT the university), that is a flat fee regardless of the number of teams you get assigned)
Some projects of the past years
IT strategy to optimize digital presence in local markets
Helping companies to become NIS 2 compliant
Your smart assistant to find the right gift
Using smart online presence to reach target groups and persuade them to visit art exhibitions
What should the UvA offer to support life long learning
Streamlining school administration
Next generation of a well being app
Selecting the right Learning Management System for the UvA
Applicability of light weight cost estimation model for software projects
User needs for Open Overheid
Key features for travel website
Key features for a job site
Your Digital legacy
🏢 Company requirements
To do good research the teams need good data, be able to talk to stakeholders, (future) users, and examine the current processes
We encourage a wide variety of companies to apply and do not limit ourselves to a specific industry or sector
👉 What does the challenge ask of you as a company when matched to a team?
To get the teams up to speed please provide an elaborated briefing in the first week of the project, with links to relevant information. Also setup some first meetings with major stakeholders and future users.
💰 Costs
To help facilitate this challenge we charge a matching fee of €850,- (ex tax).
❗️You will only be charged when matched to a team.
❗️Non-profit organisations / NGO's / Overheidsorganisaties / Onderwijsinstellingen: free of charge
📨 How to apply
You can submit the challenge directly through the website. Provide a title that summarises the challenge. Subsequently, briefly elaborate on your challenge. See link for a template you could use: https://link.masterchallenge.me/challenge-template or use the challenge generator: https://masterchallenge.me/challenge-generator
🗓 Planning
July 23: Deadline for submitting your challenge
July 23 (or sooner): Receiving message if your challenge is approved by the Course Coordinator
September 1-4: Matching phase
September 1: Student teams rank the challenges
September 3 (by 12pm): Challenge owners rank the student teams
September 4 (afternoon): Matches are communicated
September 7-9: Kick-off meeting with your team
October 20-23, 9:00 – 17:00: Final presentations
We're happy to have you on board 👋
This will happen next 👇
Once you registered your team, get together (offline or online) with your team asap, to discuss which challenges you want to work on and why, and submit this selection. Deadline is September 1.
Subsequently, the participating organizations will rank the teams that want to work on their challenge on September 3 (in the morning).
Finally, our platform will generate and share the team-challenge matches on September 4 (afternoon).
Once you're matched to a challenge, schedule a kick-off meeting with the company representative on September 7-9. (☝️Use this template)
In case you have questions about then use of the platform, feel free to use the chat (purple thingy bottom right).