Industrial Software Engineering · IT University of Copenhagen
Bring us a real development challenge. Leave with working software.
Eight to ten ITU students build it over a semester, led by a Scrum Master, with you as Product Owner. No fee, roughly four to eight hours of your week.
A short introduction to the course
Two ways to work with us
Companies join ISE either by bringing a project for a student team to build, or by sponsoring the course and meeting the students who graduate from it.
You have a challenge
For Product Owners with a digital development problem worth a semester of work.
What you bring
- A real problem that matters to your organisation, scoped to a semester — best framed as an MVP with room to go further
- A Product Owner for 4–8 hours a week, at every Scrum event and reachable in between
- Access to the data, APIs or tools the team needs, where relevant
What you get
- 8–10 developers with a Scrum Master and an industrial Agile Coach, at no cost
- An MVP or working prototype, delivered with its code and documentation
- A close look at engineers you might later hire
Project proposals are due 29 November for the following semester. Questions first? Email Paolo Tell.
Open for next year
You want to reach our students
We are looking for one more sponsor for the coming year, alongside Saxo, Capgemini and agile42.
What sponsorship gives you
- A direct, facilitated connection to the next generation of software engineers
- A sponsor booth and branding through the course and its events
- A stronger hand in hiring the students you have already worked beside
- Your support keeps the course free for the companies that bring projects
What it covers, what you get, and who to write to.
How a project runs
1
Propose
By 29 November: send us the proposal template with your challenge. We talk it through and check the scope together.
2
Pitch and match
The course opens in week 5; in week 6 you pitch at the Match Making Event and a team, a Scrum Master and an Agile Coach are assigned.
3
Build in sprints
Two weeks of kickoff, then eleven weeks of sprints with planning, reviews and retrospectives, plus mid-semester reviews in March and May.
4
Take delivery
Projects end in week 20: final presentations at the Celebration Event, then code, documentation and a retrospective on the partnership.
See a team at work
Students building software together in large teams at ITU — the practice ISE projects are run on.
Software development in large teams, IT University of Copenhagen
What partners get out of it
Around 16 teams run every semester. Seven years of projects, many partners returning with a second one.
Fresh Perspectives
Gain insights from motivated students tackling your software challenges
Talent Pipeline
Early access to potential future employees and innovators
Innovation Boost
Exposure to cutting-edge academic research and methodologies
Skill Development
Influence curriculum and contribute to shaping future engineers
Companies that brought us a challenge
From Novo Nordisk and Alfa Laval to startups building their first product.
Our sponsors
They fund the course, so partner companies pay nothing to run a project.
Talk to the course team
A project idea, a question about scope, or sponsorship — write to any of us.
