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Software Product Innovation Through Startup Experimentation in Large Companies

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)

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Startups are king of innovation. Their innovative products not only have changed our lives today but also put long-established players under pressure. Corporate management is now looking for ways to innovate like startup. Along with it, awareness and use of the Lean start-up method has grown rapidly amongst the software startup community and large companies in recent years. However, how large companies could benefit from this method is still not fully understood. To shed a light on this issue, we conducted a multiple case study with 5 internal startups from different large companies.

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  1. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Henry Edison

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  3. and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Anh Nguyen Duc

  4. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  5. Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Japan

    Sousuke Amasaki

  6. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Tommi Mikkonen

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Edison, H. (2016). Software Product Innovation Through Startup Experimentation in Large Companies. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_65

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