Utilize a set of practical guidelines to help your Agile organization elevate software design quality as an important business driver to achieve customer satisfaction and, ultimately, higher revenue for your company. This is the first book to focus on a holistic quality view-what it is and how...

Matthias Bertram aims to develop a deeper understanding of software customization and its strategic role for software product management. Drawing on the conceptual foundation of the resource-based view of the firm, such as resources, capabilities, and dynamic capabilities, the author conducts...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2016, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in June 2016. Software business refers to commercial activities in and around the software industry aimed at generating income from the delivery of...

How does one of the world’s biggest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suppliers develop software? How do Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and Co really work? Christine Grimm presents a first-hand account of a social researcher who entered the software laboratory of one of the biggest ERP providers....

The highly competitive and globalized software market is creating pressure on software companies. Given the current boundary conditions, it is critical to continuously increase time-to-market and reduce development costs. In parallel, driven by private life experiences with mobile computing...

Introduction -- Theoretical and Conceptual Foundation -- Preliminary Research Model -- Research Design -- Descriptive Findings -- Single-Case Analysis -- Cross-Case Synthesis -- Summary and Discussion -- Conclusion. .

Der innere Wert einer Software und der Wert der verantwortlichen Softwareentwicklung dahinter -- Ertragswertverfahren mit Betafaktor 2.0 für Softwareunternehmen -- Ablauf einer Software Due Diligence -- Die Herausforderungen in den Entwicklerteams -- Prozesse für hochproduktive...

Aneignung von Innovationsrenten -- Open-Source-Software: Grundlagen -- Empirische Untersuchung: Embedded Linux -- Modelltheoretische Analysen kollektiver Innovationsprozesse -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1998 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference held in Norfolk, Virginia. The research and presentations offered in this volume cover many aspects of marketing science including marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, entrepreneurial...