Understanding The Dynamics Of Product Software Development Using The Concept Of Co-Evolution

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Product Development and Design
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Business Operations,
Evolution,
Management,
Process Improvement,
Quality,
Software,
Software Development,
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Utrecht University
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Utrecht University

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Overview: The paper in which software is developed determines its evolution. Specifically for software developed as a product by startups, the uncertainty of market, platform and team not only determine the evolution of the product, but also of the process. During the lifecycle of the product the organization changes and different product improvement and process improvement patterns can be observed. With this in mind the Abernathy and Utterback dynamic innovation model proves to be an applicable view for the evolution of product software and its process. In this paper author introduce this theoretical model as a basis for further research in the co-evolution of product software development.

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Format: PDF | Size: 935KB | Date: Jul 2006 | Pages: 7

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