The purpose of this elective is to facilitate the students to gain insights into the characteristics of SaaS Products and to enable them to become operational and able to manoeuvre diligently in the complexity of technology and interdisciplinary skills that constitute the design and development of SaaS products.

You are welcome to participate if you have some prior knowledge and proficiency in either Business development, Software development or UX and digital media design.

Students will potentially be screened for this elective through short interviews aiming to assess their motivation.

You will explore and utilise agile team methodologies, pretotyping (not a spelling mistake), validated learning loops, No-code/Low-code tools, serverless infrastructure, APIs, user segmentation, ideation & innovation, Data Driven design, Participatory Design processes and a large array of tools and technology stacks that support all the above in an asynchronous collaboration process.

You will learn how to navigate a value-based product development process, in close collaboration with an external Product Sponsor. and you ill practice how to engage and utilise a Community of Practice, to build professional relations as a mean to gain new insights.

You will identify and react on emerging need for new knowledge and implement ways and techniques to acquire skills and perspective in-situ.

You will be enabled to make design decisions, relevant to the designated role in the team exploiting the interdisciplinary skills relevant to the education programme while collaborating in the team.

You will organise and orchestrate workshop facilitation as a mean to obtain knowledge and move decision processes forward. You will master continuous task prioritisation and asynchronous collaborative dialogue. You will explore and verify a market fit for the SaaS product.

You will elaborate, adapt and expand on knowledge and skills already introduced earlier in the education programme, but which requires deeper insights when assuming the designated role in the project.

You will reflect upon the designated role in an interdisciplinary agile SaaS Product Development team. Including relations and dependencies to other roles in terms of collaborations as well as overlaps and potential conflicts.