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Pekka Abrahamsson

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#computer vision Book Open access Mar 2017

On the Unhappiness of Software Developers

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. · 84 citations · ⚡6
#computer vision Open access Jun 2017

Towards Understanding Startup Product Development as Effectual Entrepreneurial Behaviors

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. · 16 citations
#computer vision Conference Open access Jun 2017

Building an entrepreneurship data warehouse

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. · 4 citations
#computer vision Open access Jan 2017

Consequences of Unhappiness while Developing Software

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 artifacts.

D. Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Xiaofeng Wang et al. · 60 citations · ⚡3
#computer vision Open access Jul 2017

What happens when software developers are (un)happy

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. · 236 citations · ⚡13
#computer vision Conference Open access Jan 2017

Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, Bad for Process, and Bad for Software Product

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. · 50 citations · ⚡3
#computer vision Open access Sep 2017

Achieving CMMI Level 2 with Enhanced Extreme Programming Approach

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 · 44 citations · ⚡4
#computer vision Book Open access Dec 2017

Innovation initiatives in large software companies: a systematic mapping study

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 Jabangwe, and Pekka Abrahamsson. 2018. Innovation Initiatives in Large Software Companies: A Systematic Mapping Study. Information and Software Technology, 95:1--14, (March 2018) DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2017.12.007.

Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, Ronald Jabangwe et al. · 20 citations · ⚡2
#computer vision Review Open access May 2017

Are Software Startups Applying Agile Practices? The State of the Practice from a Large Survey

The findings show that speed related agile practices are used to a greater extent in comparison to quality practices, and that software startups who adopt the Lean Startup approach do not sacrifice quality for speed more than other startups do.

Jevgenija Pantiuchina, Marco Mondini, Dron Khanna et al. · 84 citations · ⚡4
#computer vision Conference Open access Sep 2017

Female Leadership in Software Projects: A Preliminary Result on Leadership Style and Project Context Factors

A strong correlation between perceived team leadership and task management and a potential association between human-oriented leading approach in low customer involvement scenarios and task-orientedLeading approach in high customer involvement situations are observed.

Anh Nguyen-Duc, Soudabeh Khodambashi, J. Gulla et al. · 10 citations
#machine learning Open access May 2017

What Influences the Speed of Prototyping? An Empirical Investigation of Twenty Software Startups

This study conducts a multiple case study on twenty European software startups and proposes a prototype-centric learning model in early stage software startups, and identifies factors that occur as barriers but also facilitators for prototyping in earlystage software startups.

Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson · 44 citations · ⚡5

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