• [18-01-2012] I was interviewed for a German Forum called IT-Radar about Software Ecosystems! Read all about it and listen to it here (in parts, so a new part is released every week).
• [05-01-2012] Today I have announced the first Beta Entrepreneurship Coffee at Utrecht University. If you want to come, please subscribe to the form here.
• [05-01-2012] Today Eko Handoyo is starting his PhD program at Utrecht University under my supervision. We will be working on software engineering, and most probably software operation knowledge. I am looking forward to working with him!
• [05-12-2011] Finally, after 18 months, our submission to the Journal of Systems and Software has been accepted. The article is entitled “”Shades of Grey: Opening up a Software Producing Organization with the Open Software Enterprise Model” and can be downloaded here.
• [11-10-2011] Announcement: please attend the Software Operation Knowledge Symposium on the 17th of November. Speakers are Arie van Deursen, Paul Gruenbacher, and Marko van Eekelen. All in preparation to the thesis defense of Henk van der Schuur.

My research (my publications) is directed at strategies of software companies to obtain and retain customers. At present I am exploring two things:

1) The possibilities for a feedback management framework that supports the lifecycle of a component and manages relationships between the component and its environment.

2) The possibilities offered by software ecosystems.

My PhD research was directed at integrating and centrally storing knowledge about software to ease software release and delivery. The areas I am researching are software configuration management, component technologies, feature description languages, client server architectures and product data management.Please see the Pheme page for more information.

Quick Bio: Slinger Jansen is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Utrecht University. His research focuses on software product management and software ecosystems, with a strong entrepreneurial component. Jansen received his PhD in computer science from Utrecht University, based on the work entitled “Customer Configuration Updating in a Software Supply Network”.

I can be contacted through:

Slinger Jansen (Roijackers)
Utrecht University
PO Box 80.089
3508TB Utrecht
The Netherlands

http://www.slingerjansen.nl

slinger@slingerjansen.nl

0031 6 19 884 880

Please check out a recent movie about the Jacquard Deliver Project in which I participated: