Purpose – This paper reports on the results of an investigation into how the software development process is initially established within software product start‐ups. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs a grounded theory approach to characterize the experiences of small software...

While the quality of products is a competitive advantage for very small software development organizations, the usage of Software and Systems Engineering standards amongst such very small organizations is extremely low. A key factor in the literature explaining this lack of quality standards...

Software Process Improvement efforts (SPI) are pursued by organizations for improving the overall quality of their software development processes. However, very small entities (VSEs) avoid them by the lack of required financial and other organizational resources. In contrast, VSEs use agile...