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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 30, 2026
Evaluating Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale requires test data that captures the full complexity of real organizations, yet real enterprise data contains sensitive information that cannot be used for evaluation under any circumstances. The post From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence appeared first on Microsoft Research.
Microsoft Research Blog· microsoft.comOct 29, 2026
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