Towards production ready software in project courses with real clients

Companies that agree in participating in a project course as paying client usually expect to receive software that can be used actually. However these kind of courses are only able to produce prototypes, so that the client has to make certain modifications to the software in order to reach its production readiness. In this paper we introduce a new approach which provides clients with the knowledge required to fulfill this task. The idea is to incorporate client's developers in all development phases of the project so that they are able to serve as knowledge carrier in excess of the course.