Design Thinking for Software Engineering / Progress in IS (PDF)

Jennifer Hehn is Professor for Project Management and Agile Methods at the Institute for Digital Technology Management, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland and an associate researcher at the Management of AI Lab, Institute of Information Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. Her research interests are design thinking, requirements engineering, and agile development techniques. As a consultant she has worked together with several international organizations in implementing design thinking.Daniel Mendez is Professor for Software Engineering at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a senior researcher at fortiss, the research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for Software-intensive Systems and Services. His research area is empirical software engineering with a special focus on interdisciplinary, qualitative research in requirements engineering and its quality improvement.
Walter Brenner is Professor and Managing Director of the Institute of Information Management at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. His research focuses on industrialisation of information management, management of IT service providers and innovation and technology management. Prior to his academic career, Professor Brenner worked as head of application development at Alusuisse-Lonza AG.
Manfred Broy was Professor and head of the Software & Systems Engineering group at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests are software and systems engineering comprising both theoretical and applied aspects including system models, specification and refinement of system components, specification techniques, development methods and verification.