A Survey on the Perception of Innovation in a Large Product-Focused Software Organization

Linåker, Johan; Munir, Hussan; Runeson, Per; Regnell, Björn; Schrewelius, Claes

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19593-3_6

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“…This paper adds to existing knowledge by focusing on the use of OSS from an OI perspective in an organization that seek to complement its internal product development and process innovation (Linåker et al 2015) with the use of external knowledge from OSS communities. Furthermore, this study aims to improve our understanding of what and how a software organization can open up and how SE practices are adapted to deal with the openness to OSS communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…OSS offers not only potential product innovation (e.g. by using an OSS platform of commodity parts to build differentiation parts), but potential process innovations in terms of an implementation of new or significantly improved production or delivery methods (Linåker et al 2015).…”

Section: Explains the Term Open Innovation (Oi) As "A Paradigm That Amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The study further investigates how external knowledge and innovation captured through the active development of these OSS tools may be transferred into the product development teams of Sony Mobile. More explicitly, this study contributes by studying how OSS may be used, not only for leveraging product innovation (Linåker et al 2015) in the tools themselves, but also how these tools can be used as enablers for process innovation in the form of improved SE practices and product quality. This paper is structured as follows.…”

Section: Explains the Term Open Innovation (Oi) As "A Paradigm That Amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More explicitly, this study contributes by studying how OSS may be used, not only for leveraging product innovation (Linåker et al 2015) in the tools themselves, but also how these tools can be used as enablers for process innovation in the form of improved SE practices and tools within the organization.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The tool chain has the potential to function as an enabler in other contexts as well, seeing Sony Mobile as a diversified organization with multiple product branches. By opening up in the way that the Tools department has done, effects from the coupled OI processes with Jenkins and Gerrit may spread even further into other product branches, possibly rendering in further innovations on different abstraction levels (Linåker et al 2015). A way of facilitating this spread is the creation of an inner source initiative which will allow for knowledge sharing across the different borders inside Sony Mobile, comparable to an internal OSS community, or as a bazaar inside a cathedral (Wesselius 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Despite growing interest of Open Innovation (OI) in Software Engineering (SE), little is known about what triggers software organizations to adopt it and how this affects SE practices. OI can be realized in numerous of ways, including Open Source Software (OSS) involvement. Outcomes from OI are not restricted to product innovation but also include process innovation, e.g. improved SE practices and methods. This study explores the involvement of a software organization (Sony Mobile) in OSS communities from an OI perspective and what SE practices (requirements engineering and testing) have been adapted in relation to OI. It also highlights the innovative outcomes resulting from OI. An exploratory embedded case study investigates how Sony Mobile use and contribute to Jenkins and Gerrit; the two central OSS tools in their continuous integration tool chain. Quantitative analysis was performed on change log data from source code repositories in order to identify the top contributors and triangulated with the results from five semi-structured interviews to explore the nature of the commits. The findings of the case study include five major themes: i) The process of opening up towards the tool communities correlates in time with a general adoption of OSS in the organization. ii) Assets not seen as competitive advantage nor a source of revenue are made open to OSS communities, and gradually, the organization turns more open. iii) The requirements engineering process towards the community is informal and based on engagement. iv) The need for systematic and automated testing is still in its infancy, but the needs are identified. v) The innovation outcomes included free features and maintenance, and were believed to increase speed and quality in development. Adopting OI was a result of a paradigm shift of moving from Windows to Linux. This shift enabled Sony Mobile to utilize the Jenkins and Gerrit communities to make their internal development process better for its software developers and testers.

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Section: Explains the Term Open Innovation (Oi) As "A Paradigm That Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Explains the Term Open Innovation (Oi) As "A Paradigm That Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Jenkins and Gerrit Have Been Set Up For Testers And Develomentioning

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Investigating Open Innovation Practices to Support Requirements Management in Software Ecosystems

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Antonino

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Software ecosystems (SECO) affect requirements management when considering multiple actors (i.e., keystone, third-party developer, users) from different organizations using several communication channels such as issue trackers and forums. To deal with this scenario, professionals involved in requirements management in SECO have resorted to several open innovation (OI) practices. Our study aims to investigate OI practices applied to support requirements management in SECO. We conducted a field study based on interviews with 21 professionals involved in requirements management activities in SECO. We identified 10 OI practices to support requirements management in SECO and 14 communication channels to receive/provide requirements from/to external actors. OI practices identified in this study can help practitioners manage requirements in the SECO context in which they are engaged, making this process more informal, open, and collaborative.

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Integrating the gender dimension to disclose the degree of businesses’ articulation of innovation

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In this contribution, we examine the relationship between the presence of women in companies’ Boards and innovation communication claims: we propose a framework to quantitatively assess the presence of women and the online articulation of innovation, in order to understand whether some correlations hold between these two variables. We also introduce a neural network approach to predict the innovation metric that uses, amongst the predictors, the gender component, and we compare it with a linear regression analysis. Results indicate that neural networks may be used to predict the articulation of innovation by using a predictor set that includes the gender component of the Board of Directors, and also that the use of the gender metric improves previous predictions about the articulation of innovation model’s output.

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A Survey on the Perception of Innovation in a Large Product-Focused Software Organization

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Open innovation using open source tools: a case study at Sony Mobile

Open innovation using open source tools: a case study at Sony Mobile

Investigating Open Innovation Practices to Support Requirements Management in Software Ecosystems

Integrating the gender dimension to disclose the degree of businesses’ articulation of innovation

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