Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company

Nils Brede Moe; Sebastian Barney; Aybüke Aurum; Mahvish Khurum; Claes Wohlin; Hamish T. Barney; Tony Gorschek; Martha Winata

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31063-8_13

Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company

Nils Brede Moe, Sebastian Barney, Aybüke Aurum, Mahvish Khurum, Claes Wohlin, Hamish T. Barney, Tony Gorschek, Martha Winata

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Abstract

Sustaining innovation in a fast growing software development company is difficult. As organisations grow, peoples’ focus often changes from the big picture of the product being developed to the specific role they fill. This paper presents two complementary approaches that were successfully used to support continued developer-driven innovation in a rapidly growing Australian agile software development company. The method “FedExTM Day” gives developers one day to showcase a proof of concept they believe should be part of the product, while the method “20% Time” allows more ambitious projects to be undertaken. Given the right setting and management support, the two approaches can support and improve bottom-up innovation in organizations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Product-Focused Software Process Improvement/Lecture notes in computer science
Editors	Oscar Dieste, Andreas Jedlitschka, Natalia Juristo
Publisher	Springer
Pages	160-174
Volume	7343
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-31062-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31063-8_13
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th International Conference, PROFES 2012, - Madrid, Spain Duration: 2012 Jun 13 → 2012 Jun 15

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Volume	7343
ISSN (Print)	1611-3349
ISSN (Electronic)	0302-9743

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Conference	13th International Conference, PROFES 2012,
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	2012/06/13 → 2012/06/15

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Software Engineering

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Moe, N. B., Barney, S., Aurum, A., Khurum, M., Wohlin, C., Barney, H. T., Gorschek, T., & Winata, M. (2012). Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company. In O. Dieste, A. Jedlitschka, & N. Juristo (Eds.), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement/Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 7343, pp. 160-174). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31063-8_13

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Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company. / Moe, Nils Brede; Barney, Sebastian; Aurum, Aybüke et al.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement/Lecture notes in computer science. ed. / Oscar Dieste; Andreas Jedlitschka; Natalia Juristo. Vol. 7343 Springer, 2012. p. 160-174.

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