NDLI: Patterns for Controlling Chaos in a Startup

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Patterns for Controlling Chaos in a Startup

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Eloranta, Veli-Pekka
Abstract	A growing trend in industrial software engineering is that new software products and information services are developed under conditions of notable uncertainty. This is especially visible in startup enterprises which aim at new kinds of products and services in rapidly changing social web, where potential customers can quickly adopt new behavior. Special characteristics of the startups are lack of resources and funds, and startups may need to change direction fast. All these affect the software engineering practices used in the startups. Unfortunately almost 90 percent of all startups fail and goes bankrupt. There are probably indefinite numbers of reasons why startups fail. Failure might be caused by wrongly chosen software engineering practices or inconsiderate decision making. While there is no recipe for success, we argue that good practices that can help on the way to success can be identified from successful startups. In this paper, we present two patterns that startups can consider when entering the growth phase of the lifecycle.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	8
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450326605
DOI	10.1145/2676680.2676682
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-04-10
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Start-up Lean start-up Patterns Organizational patterns Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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