This inductive study develops a model of innovation and adaptability in software product development. It is based on a case study of a company that is transitioning from a custom development approach to a product-based solution. The emergent model represents a synthesis of the case study findings and the enfolding literature from traditional product development and software development. The goa...

The traditional view of software development is that it occurs within a single company. While parts of the development may be sourced from outside the company, the final product has been specified, and is owned in full, by the company. When a company develops multiple products in the same domain, it benefits from organizing its software development activity as a product line (http://sei.cmu.edu...

We have developed a process for using ethnographic data to drive design in a product development environment. This process involves three main steps: collecting observational data, analyzing the data to produce a model useful for design in a technical domain of interest, and successfully communicating the results of this analysis to engineers, marketers, management; in effect, all project team ...

The purpose of this research is to provide empirical support for the adoption of an integrated approach, based on collaborative product development and peer production combined with 3D printing, to deliver more sustainable, cheaper but competitive marketable products. In particular, the experimental study is conducted in the context of mobile forensics, an emerging market where few expensive in...

Nowadays, collaborative product development has become a strategic necessity to develop high quality products at low cost and with quick response time to market demand. Past decades have seen significant advances to collaborative product development. However, Enterprises are still confronted with some problems. Firstly, the research in strategic level of collaborative product development is lac...

Singapore manufacturing SMEs are losing ground to operations in low cost countries and need to embrace higher value-add activities such as product development (PD). Simultaneously, increasing globalization and specialization is leading to the formation of design chains for PD. For SMEs to successfully collaborate, bid and perform in such a scenario, they will need the support of flexible tools ...

Successful software process improvement depends on the ability to analyze past projects and determine which parts of the process that could become more efficient. One typical data source is the faults that are reported during product development. From an industrial need, this paper provides a solution based on a measure called faults-slip-through, i.e. the measure tells which faults that should...

Purpose This paper reports on the results of an investigation into how the software development process is initially established within software product start-ups. Methodology/Approach The study employs a grounded theory approach to characterize the experiences of small software organizations in developing processes to support their software development activity. Using the indigenous Irish soft...

Collaborative product development is a growing trend as companies seek worldwide opportunities to extend their market as well as small and medium sized engineering enterprises concentrate on their core competences. Internet and Web technology facilitates the information sharing and exchange among widely distributed collaboration partners, however, the integration of business processes with the ...