Hitting the target: Practices for moving toward innovation experiment systems
Other conference contribution, 2015

The benefits and barriers that software development companies face when moving beyond agile development practices are identified in a multiplecase study in five Finnish companies. The practices that companies need to adopt when moving towards innovation experiment systems are recognised. The background of the study is the Stairway to Heaven (StH) model that describes the path that many software development companies take when advancing their development practices. The development practices in each case are investigated and analysed in relation to the StH model. At first the results of the analysis strengthened the validity of the StH model as a path taken by software development companies to advance their development practices. Based on the findings, the StH model was extended with a set of additional practices and their adoption levels for each step of the model. The extended model was validated in five case companies.

Innovation experiment systems

Agile development

Continuous deployment

Software development

Feedback loops

Author

T. Karvonen

Oulun Yliopisto

L. E. Lwakatare

Oulun Yliopisto

T. Sauvola

Oulun Yliopisto

Jan Bosch

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

Helena Holmström Olsson

Malmo Hogskola

P. Kuvaja

Oulun Yliopisto

M. Oivo

Oulun Yliopisto

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

1865-1348 (ISSN)

Vol. 210 117-131
978-3-319-19592-6 (ISBN)

Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-19593-3_10

ISBN

978-3-319-19592-6

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10/7/2017