The initial findings show that different software startups make different types of pivots related to business and technology during their product development life cycle, which are triggered by various factors including negative customer feedback.
Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, A. Duc et al.· International Conference on...· 29 citations· ⚡4
This paper reports a study where realism was combined with control over certain context and process factors to identify the most important relationships among process, context and outcome.
P. Abrahamsson, Andreas Jedlitschka, A. Duc et al.· Lecture Notes in Computer Sc...· 3 citations
It is proposed that early contract-based activities could be transformed into a long-term partnership by adopting a startup boundary spanner's role, establishing an inter-personal relationship and maintaining a mutual commitment.
Anh Nguyen-Duc, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 9 citations· ⚡2
The results indicate that software developers are a slightly happy population, but the need for limiting the unhappiness of developers remains, and 219 factors representing causes of unhappiness while developing software are identified.
D. Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· International Conference on...· 84 citations· ⚡6
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The behaviour theory of entrepreneurial firms is applied to understand the root-cause of some software startup challenges and implies that effectual entrepreneurial processes might require a more suitable product development approach than the current state-of-practice.
A. Duc, Yngve Dahle, M. Steinert et al.· International Conference on...· 16 citations
This paper will focus on how to build and set up a test harness to gather empirical data from Companies and how to store these data together with demographical and financial data from the PROFF-portal in the Entrepreneurial Data Warehouse (from now called the EDW).
Yngve Dahle, M. Steinert, Anh Nguyen-Duc et al.· International Conference on...· 4 citations
Using qualitative data analysis of the responses given by 181 questionnaire participants, a classification scheme is identified of 49 consequences of unhappiness while doing software development that have detrimental consequences on developers' mental well-being, the software development process, and the produced artif...
D. Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· International Workshop on Em...· 60 citations· ⚡3
Consequences of happiness and unhappiness that are beneficial and detrimental for developers' mental well-being, the software development process, and the produced artifacts are found.
D. Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· Journal of Systems and Softw...· 236 citations· ⚡13
The first results from a study exploring the consequences of the unhappy developers are presented, and it is predicted that the classification scheme identified will spawn new happiness studies linking causes and effects and can act as a guideline for developers and managers to foster happiness at work.
D. Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th Internati...· 50 citations· ⚡3
This study demonstrates that it is possible to use the CMMI for assessing and improving agile processes, however, the analysis reveals that assessing an agile organization requires more interpretations than normally would be the case.
Tuomo Kähkönen, P. Abrahamsson· International Conference on...· 44 citations· ⚡4
There is a constant need to check what interest agile practitioners and what agile researchers are investigating, to make sure that the states of the art and practice are aligned properly.
A. Mishra, J. Garbajosa, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· J. Softw. Evol. Process.· 15 citations· ⚡3
This extended abstract summarises an article, which has been published in the Information and Software Technology (IST) Journal and was selected for the Journal-First presentations at the International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP 2018). Full Article Reference. Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, Ronald Ja...
Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, Ronald Jabangwe et al.· Information and Software Tec...· 20 citations· ⚡2