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Emerging Industrial Internet of Things (iIoT) platforms generate cross-company added value, providing functionalities and technologies for a variety of digital services in the industrial engineering. iIoT platforms integrate various stakeholders, such ...

Cloud computing and the service-oriented business model are transforming the way software is developed, delivered, and used. Servicization of digital products creates new challenges for software companies to be able to reap the benefits of this change. ...

Recent studies have proposed the use of experiments to guide software development in order to build features that users really want. In this context, product assumptions should be taken as hypotheses to be tested through experiments. User stories (US) ...

Through increasing market dynamics, rapidly evolving technologies and shifting user expectations coupled with the adoption of lean and agile practices, companies are struggling with their ability to provide reliable product roadmaps by applying ...

Startups seek to create highly scalable business models. For startups, growth is thus vital. Growth hacking is a marketing strategy advocated by various startup practitioner experts. It focuses on using low cost practices while utilizing existing ...

Time-bounded events such as hackathons, code fests and others have become a global phenomenon. Entrepreneurial hackathons in particular have gained wide spread popularity because they come with the prospect to being the grounds where the next billion ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been recognized to be the most disruptive technology in the next ten years. The disruptive potential of AI is based on enhanced data processing capabilities which enable broader task automation but also allows AI to ...

The software business is moving from product business to Soft-ware-as-a-Service (SaaS). In addition to business changes, this also changes how productization should be done. This paper explores the required levels of productization in different phases ...

Hub companies (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Google) rule the internet. They are de facto monopolies in their area of operations. They shape the future in which we live. And, it seems there is nothing we can do about that, as traditional ...

Software start-ups face fierce competition in the market forcing them to release their products quickly and often under tough time constraints. To meet their deadlines, start-ups take shortcuts in software development leading to the accumulation of ...