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September 2018 - present
September 2018 - present
November 2015 - present
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The 7th International Workshop on Software-intensive Business (IWSiB'24), held on April 16, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal, as part of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), brought together diverse research communities to address the pressing challenges faced by software-producing organizations. These challenges, driven...
This paper aims to provide clarity on the emerging role of Product Operations (Product Ops) in software-developing organizations. As organizations increasingly acknowledge the benefits of having a dedicated Product Ops function, inconsistencies and uncertainties surrounding the role’s responsibilities persist. By analyzing job advertisements for Pr...
Product Operations (Product Ops) is a concept gaining momentum among product management practitioners in the software domain. Practitioners share success stories and describe various benefits of implementing Product Ops in software organizations. However, there is a lack of consensus on a definition and areas of responsibility of the role, which ma...
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The gender imbalance in technology, sciences, and engineering is a global problem and according to the statistics, this really has not changed much in the last thirty years. Moreover, there is also a lack of women in tech entrepreneurship; most success stories are about male entrepreneurs, and in Silicon Valley the term describing the start...
A growing number of software companies nowadays offer their solutions using the SaaS model. The model promises multiple business-related benefits for these companies; however, existing software companies are forced to re-develop products and reconsider product strategies to address all the aspects of the new SaaS model. The existing literature prov...
The gender imbalance on the science, technology, engineering and medical domains commonly referred as STEM fields is a problem in the high-tech society. Furthermore, as women has been underrepresented in the field for decades, most success stories are usually male-driven. To study the factors affecting the women interest to-wards entrepreneurship a...
The discovery and dissemination of crowdsourcing have led to the emergence of platforms that offer the infrastructure for implementing crowdsourcing projects on a commercial basis. In this study, we investigate the economic structures of such paid crowdsourcing platforms. We develop an integrated Crowdsourcing Platform Economic Design framework bas...
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) pricing addresses decisions of monetary compensation and the conditions for the SaaS solution to the customer. Efficient SaaS pricing requires sophisticated decision-making and analytics, as well as coordination and compromises between the many business functions involved. The decision-making includes integrated analysi...
Pricing is one of the business and product strategy elements to achieve both financial performance and competitive advantage. The transition towards the Software-as-a-Service model has unlocked new opportunities for pricing software products. Conflicting recommendations from existing studies and industry experts make it challenging for SaaS provide...
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Pricing is an essential element of software business strategy and tactics. Informed pricing decision-making requires the involvement of different stakeholders and comprehensive data analysis. Achieving both appears to be challenging, and pricing remains one of the most under-managed processes in the software business. Simultaneously, a cohe...
Informed SaaS pricing decision-making requires the involvement of different business units and integrated pricing approaches. Achieving both appears to be challenging for a lot of SaaS providers, and despite its declared importance, pricing is one of the most under-managed business processes. Small and medium-sized companies do not have the resourc...
Cloud computing and the service-oriented business model are transforming the way software is developed, delivered, and used. Servicization of digital products creates new challenges for software companies to be able to reap the benefits of this change. Pricing is recognized as an essential component of software product management that affects the o...
Transition to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is revolutionizing the software market with significant impact on both SaaS providers and consumers. Research on business aspects of SaaS was usually limited to exploring adoption factors from a consumer perspective. Research on engineering aspects of SaaS focuses primarily on cloud computing archite...
Previous studies on software product management (SPM) domain have provided an extensive picture of the work of a software product manager. Still, little evidence exists about what principles should guide their decisions. A product manager's decision-making has a certain level of subjectivity based on managerial intuition. However, sustainable softw...
N owadays many business models rely heavily upon adequate IT management practices. Quite often in developed economies, the role of IT has organically evolved over decades from a mere business support function to an efficiency driver and enabler, and finally (at least in some cases) to a driver of business innovation and digital transformation. Unli...
IT penetration of the core business processes in companies in recent decades has increased continuously. Moreover, the business agility is strongly influenced by the IT agility, making IT an important factor that can contribute to the competitiveness of a firm in its markets. Increasingly, this requires IT to be no longer merely "enabler" of busine...
In this paper, we report on the results of an experiment in teaching discrete mathematics to students majoring in business informatics. We supplemented our problem-based approach to teaching the course with a set of Likert-scale surveys or questionnaires that helped improve the students’ performance. On the one hand, these surveys gave us feedback...
World Bank data shows that education accounts for, on average, 13% of government expenditure in the world, effective spending being a priority. Position in international academic rankings has been a universally accepted, yet criticized, criterion of institutional effectiveness. No consistent positive correlation was revealed during research on how...
In this paper, we discuss examples of assignments for a course in discrete mathematics for undergraduate students majoring in business informatics. We consider several problems with computer-based solutions and discuss general strategies for using computers in teaching mathematics and its applications. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our...
At the age of software as a service (SasS) and cloud computing as compared to what is used to be earlier, designing product strategies is a challenging concern for software product management researchers. Comparative statics models are considered to identify software market characteristics while assessing the managerial decisions during the softwar...
