Software business : towards continuous value delivery ; 5th International Conference, ICSOB 2014, Paphos, Cyprus, June 16-18, 2014 ; proceedings

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2014. The theme of the event was "Shortening the Time to Market: From Short Cycle Times to Continuous Value Delivery." The 18 full papers, two short papers, two industrial papers, and two doctoral consortium abstracts accepted for ICSOB were selected from 45 submissions and are organized in sections on: strategic aspects, start-ups and software business, products and service business, software development, ecosystems, and platforms and enterprises. Front Matter....Pages - Exploring the Relationship between Partnership Model Participation and Interfirm Network Structure: An Analysis of the Office365 Ecosystem....Pages 1-15 Ecosystem-Driven Software Development: A Case Study on the Emerging Challenges in Inter-organizational R&D....Pages 16-26 Why Early-Stage Software Startups Fail: A Behavioral Framework....Pages 27-41 A Comparative Perspective between Investors and Businesses Regarding Success Factors of E-Ventures at an Early-Stage....Pages 42-57 From Agile Software Development to Mercury Business....Pages 58-71 The Role of Business Model and Its Elements in Computer Game Start-ups....Pages 72-87 Following the Money: Revenue Stream Constituents in Case of Within-firm Variation....Pages 88-99 Defining the Process of Acquiring Product Software Firms....Pages 100-114 Productization of an IT Service Firm....Pages 115-131 Software Development as a Decision-Oriented Process....Pages 132-147 Automated User Interaction Analysis for Workflow-Based Web Portals....Pages 148-162 Orchestrate Your Platform: Architectural Challenges for Different Types of Ecosystems for Mobile Devices....Pages 163-178 ESAO: A Holistic Ecosystem-Driven Analysis Model....Pages 179-193 KPIs for Software Ecosystems: A Systematic Mapping Study....Pages 194-211 Evaluating the Governance Model of Hardware-Dependent Software Ecosystems – A Case Study of the Axis Ecosystem....Pages 212-226 App Store Models for Enterprise Software: A Comparative Case Study of Public versus Internal Enterprise App Stores....Pages 227-242 Impact of Cloud Computing Technologies on Pricing Models of Software Firms – Insights from Finland....Pages 243-257 What Influences Platform Provider’s Degree of Openness? – Measuring and Analyzing the Degree of Platform Openness....Pages 258-272 Analytical Open Innovation for Value-Optimized Service Portfolio Planning....Pages 273-288 Observed Effects of Free Software on Software Development and Requirements Management....Pages 289-294 The Preliminary Results from the Software Product Management State-of-Practice Survey....Pages 295-300 Alignment Issues in Chains of Scrum Teams....Pages 301-306 Back Matter....Pages -