From agile software development to mercury business

Janne Järvinen, Tua Huomo, Tommi Mikkonen, Pasi Tyrväinen

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference article in proceedingsScientificpeer-review

    35 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    The rapid downfall of the Nokia software ecosystem has radically altered the landscape of software industry in Finland in recent years. There has been a shift from largely corporate driven way of working, which is often dominant in large companies, to more agile practices, and in general software organizations are seeking new, leaner ways of composing, delivering, and using software also inside already established companies. To accelerate this transformation in large scale, a collaborative research program has been created, called Need for Speed (N4S). In this paper, we give an insight to the joint goals and concrete actions of the program and discuss the motivations of individual companies that are participating in the program. As one concrete goal of the project, we introduce the concept of Mercury business, where the principles of the Lean startup framework are applied in a more conventional industrial setting.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSoftware Business
    Subtitle of host publicationTowards Continuous Value Delivery
    EditorsCasper Lassenius, Kari Smolander
    Place of PublicationCham
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages58-71
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-08738-2
    ISBN (Print)978-3-319-08737-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    Event5th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2014 - Paphos, Cyprus
    Duration: 16 Jun 201418 Jun 2014

    Publication series

    SeriesLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
    Volume182
    ISSN1865-1348

    Conference

    Conference5th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2014
    Abbreviated titleICSOB 2014
    Country/TerritoryCyprus
    CityPaphos
    Period16/06/1418/06/14

    Keywords

    • real-time value delivery
    • deep customer insight
    • lean startup
    • elastic enterprise
    • mercury business

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'From agile software development to mercury business'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this