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Software Innovation –Values for a Methodology

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Nordic Contributions in IS Research (SCIS 2013)

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Innovation is a recurrent theme in public as well as academic debate, and software development plays a major role for innovation in about every sector of our economy. As a consequence, software innovation will play an increasingly important role in software development. The focus in this paper is on how to make innovation more likely to happen in software development at the level of the software team or project. At this level it is important to identify opportunities to create added value in ongoing projects. Changes in software technologies over the last decades have opened up for experimentation, learning, and flexibility in software projects, but how can this change be used to facilitate software innovation? This paper proposes a set of values to guide the development of a methodology to facilitate software innovation.

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Aaen, I. (2013). Software Innovation –Values for a Methodology. In: Aanestad, M., Bratteteig, T. (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research. SCIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39832-2_5

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