This paper conducts a qualitative interpretive study based on face-to-face open-ended interviews, in-field observations, and e-mail exchanges to construct a novel explanatory theory of the impact of affects on development performance.
D. Graziotin, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson· PeerJ Computer Science· 63 citations· ⚡5
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.
Xiaofeng Wang, Henry Edison, Sohaib Shahid Bajwa et al.· International Conference on...· 62 citations· ⚡6
Software startup companies develop innovative, software-intensive products within limited timeframes and with few resources, searching for sustainable and scalable business models.
M. Unterkalmsteiner, P. Abrahamsson, Xiaofeng Wang et al.· e-Informatica Software Engin...· 157 citations· ⚡17
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 software companies.
Henry Edison, Xiaofeng Wang, P. Abrahamsson· EUROMICRO Conference on Soft...· 11 citations· ⚡1
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.
Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh Nguyen-Duc et al.· Empirical Software Engineeri...· 127 citations· ⚡15
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
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
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.· 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
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 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.· Information and Software Tec...· 20 citations· ⚡2
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