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@inproceedings{Njima2017BENEVOL,
author = {Mercy Njima and Serge Demeyer},
booktitle = {Proceedings {BENEVOL 2017} (16th edition of the
BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution symposium)},
month = dec,
pages = {10--12},
publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)},
title = {Evolution of Software Product Development in Startup
Companies},
volume = {Vol-2047},
year = {2017},
abstract = {This position paper addresses the software engineer-
ing practices in startups. The focus of most software
engineering research has been on established
companies. However, startup technology companies have
become important producers of innovative and software
intensive products despite the fact that they are
under severe time-to-market pressure. Given that
software engineering is the core activity in said
startups, inadequacies in such practices might be a
substantial contributing factor to this pressure to
keep up with the software industry competitive needs.
Startups build non-traditional business architectures
by taking the easy path to find a product-market fit
and thus, accumulate large amounts of technical debt.
We shed light on the major efforts in the domain and
indicate the research directions we plan to explore
further.},
annote = {workshoppaper},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2047},
}