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What influences the speed of prototyping? An empirical investigation of twenty software startups
Anh Nguyen Duc, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson
It is essential for startups to quickly experiment business ideas by building tangible prototypes and collecting user feedback on them. As prototyping is an inevitable part of lear…
A survey study on major technical barriers affecting the decision to adopt cloud services
Nattakarn Phaphoom, Xiaofeng Wang, Sarah Samuel +2
In the context of cloud computing, risks associated with underlying technologies, risks involving service models and outsourcing, and enterprise readiness have been recognized as p…
Failures to be celebrated: an analysis of major pivots of software startups
Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh Nguyen Duc +1
In the context of software startups, project failure is embraced actively and considered crucial to obtain validated learning that can lead to pivots. A pivot is the strategic chan…
Why Early-Stage Software Startups Fail: A Behavioral Framework
Carmine Giardino, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson
Software startups are newly created companies with little operating history and oriented towards producing cutting-edge products. As their time and resources are extremely scarce,…
What happens when software developers are (un)happy
Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang +1
The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding happiness an…
On the Unhappiness of Software Developers
Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang +1
The happy-productive worker thesis states that happy workers are more productive. Recent research in software engineering supports the thesis, and the ideal of flourishing happines…
Consequences of Unhappiness While Developing Software
Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang +1
The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding the positive…
Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, Bad for Process, and Bad for Software Product
Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang +1
Recent research in software engineering supports the "happy-productive" thesis, and the desire of flourishing happiness among programmers is often expressed by industry practitione…