Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to
customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases …

Agile project management methods revolutionized the way how software projects are
executed and organized. The question, however, on how to enable agility outside of …

Abstract Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) demands upfront long‐term investment
in (i) designing a common set of core‐assets and (ii) managing variability across the …

Context: Startups aim at scaling their business, often by developing innovative products with
limited human and financial resources. The development of software products in the startup …

Software ecosystems is an emerging trend within the software industry, implying a shift from
closed organizations and processes towards open structures, where actors external to the …

Agile development methods such as extreme programming (XP), SCRUM, Lean Software
Development (Lean SD) and others have gained much popularity during the last years …

Information requirements determination (IRD) is concerned with developing accurate
requirements for a proposed system, primarily by eliciting information from users and other …

Abstract Context: The adoption of Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is usually only
based on its theoretical benefits instead of empirical evidences. In fact, there is no work that …

The ability to rapidly respond to customer interest and to effectively prioritize development
effort has been a long‐standing challenge for mass‐market software intensive products. This …

Socio-technical ecosystems are living organisms that grow and shrink, that change velocity,
and that split from, or merge with, others. The ecosystems that surround producers of …