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Do software firms collaborate or compete? A model of coopetition in community-initiated OSS projects

A conceptual model to explain for coop competition among software firms in OSS projects is proposed and shows two aspects of coopetition can be managed at the same time based on firm gatekeepers.

A Tool-Based Approach for Essentializing Software Engineering Practices

Software Engineers work using highly diverse methods and practices, and general theories in software engineering are lacking. A recent attempt at creating a common ground in the area of software engineering methodologies has been the Essence Theory of Software Engineering. Essence is a method-agnostic progress manageme...

Implementing Ethics in AI: An industrial multiple case study

This paper provides a baseline for ethics in AI based software development by reporting results from an industrial multiple case study on AI systems development in the health care sector, and explores the current state of practice out on the field in the absence of formal methods and tools for ethically aligned design.

Continuous experimentation on artificial intelligence software: a research agenda

A holistic view of an iterative, continuous approach to develop industrial AI software basing on business goals, requirements and Minimum Viable Products is described and a research agenda with seven questions for future studies is proposed.

Time for AI (Ethics) Maturity Model Is Now

It is argued that AI software is still software and needs to be approached from the software development perspective, and whether the focus should be on AI ethics or the quality of an AI system, called a maturity model for the development of AI systems is discussed.

Conducting B2B SaaS Business with a Freemium Model: A Case Study

A survey study on major technical barriers affecting the decision to adopt cloud services

The comparison of adopter and non-adopter sample reveals three potential adoption inhibitor, security, data privacy, and portability, which underlines the importance of the technical and security perspectives for research investigating the adoption of technology.

Key Challenges in Software Startups Across Life Cycle Stages

It is found that what perceived as biggest challenges by software startups do vary across different life cycle stages, even though its significance decreases when the learning focuses of the startups move from problem to solution and their products mature.

Software Startups - A Research Agenda

Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited timeframes and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models.

Product Innovation through Internal Startup in Large Software Companies: A Case Study

A case study of a large software company was conducted to examine how a new product was developed through the internal startup effort and struggled to achieve the desired outcomes set by the management, and the conceptual framework was developed into a Lean startup-enabled new product development model for large softwa...

“Failures” to be celebrated: an analysis of major pivots of software startups

This study conducts a case survey study based on the secondary data of the major pivots happened in 49 software startups, and demonstrates that customer need pivot is the most common among all pivot types.

Software Development in Startup Companies: The Greenfield Startup Model

The results are packaged in the Greenfield Startup Model (GSM), which explains the priority of startups to release the product as quickly as possible, and the need to shorten time-to-market, by speeding up the development through low-precision engineering activities.