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The entrepreneurial logic of startup software development: A study of 40 software startups
Anh Nguyen-Duc, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Pekka Abrahamsson
Context: Software startups are an essential source of innovation and software-intensive products. The need to understand product development in startups and to provide relevant sup…
Software Startup Practices -- Software Development in Startups through the Lens of the Essence Theory of Software Engineering
Kai-Kristian Kemell, Ville Ravaska, Anh Nguyen-Duc +1
Software startups continue to be important drivers of economy globally. As the initial investment required to found a new software company becomes smaller and smaller resulting fro…
Product Innovation through Internal Startup in Large Software Companies: a Case Study
Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, Pekka Abrahamsson
Product innovation is a risky activity, but when successful, it enables large software companies accrue high profits and leapfrog the competition. Internal startups have been promo…
Agile Software Development Method, A Comparative Review1
Pekka Abrahamsson, Nilay Oza, Mikko T. Siponen
Although agile software development methods have caught the attention of software engineers and researchers worldwide, scientific research still remains quite scarce. The aim of th…
The Personal Software Process, Experiences from Denmark
Pekka Abrahamsson, Karlheinz Kautz
Software process improvement (SPI) research and practice is transforming from the traditional large-scale assessment based improvement initiatives into smaller sized, tailored init…
Commitment to Software Process improvement Development of Diagnostic Tool to Facilitate Improvement1
Pekka Abrahamsson
This paper suggests that by operationalizing the concept of commitment in the shape of a model, a new insight is provided in improving software processes - a more human centered ap…