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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

This book is intended primarily for practitioners who are facing the "softwareisation" of their business. It presents the Scaling Management Framework, a model based on collected experiences from companies that have already made the journey to give software a central role within the organization. The model is unique because it suggests a holistic method to analyze and plan your journey. It simply means that you can't just focus solely on your products or services. You also have to look closely at your processes and your organization, the way you make decisions and get things done. Inevitably, these will have to change.

Software has changed the rules of the game. The world talks about the digitalization in industry and society - how the focus has shifted from producing tangible things towards software and services. This trend started many years ago, but is now affecting every company, whether it's a software company or not. There are many companies that have already made a digitalization journey - and many are about to embark on this journey - like you. How do you transform your organization when software is becoming a critical part of your business?

This book comes with a map, a compass, and suggested journeys along with selected travel stories comprising best practices and lessons learned from past digitalization journeys. Use the map to find your way in the digitalization landscape, and use the compass to find the direction of your journey.

Scaling a Software Business: The Digitalization Journey

Common challenges with software.- The map.- A holistic view to change.- The compass.- The journeys.- Co-develop in a community.- Charing is caring.- A thriving Open Source culture behind the wall.- Keeping the doors open.- Building ecosystems.- Pushing the boundaries.- Add supplementary services.- Adding Internet to things.- Boosting product sales by services.- Deliver 24/7.- Pruning a bush.- Ensuring prima deliveries.- Pump up the volume.- Global R&D goes agile with SAFe.- Multi-site development.- Agile and disciplined.- Scaling Agile in Automotive.- Scaling Agile in Life sciences.- Outside the box.- Efficient communication.- Outsourcing Strategy at Sony Mobile.- Not so shore anymore.- Play it again, Sam, backwards.- First things first.- Robotic growing pains.- Softhouse reflects on architecture changes.- From mobile to Platform.- Your journey.