Grounded theory in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines

KJ Stol, P Ralph, B Fitzgerald - … of the 38th International conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Grounded Theory (GT) has proved an extremely useful research approach in several fields
including medical sociology, nursing, education and management theory. However, GT is a …

Decomposition of monolith applications into microservices architectures: A systematic review

Y Abgaz, A McCarren, P Elger, D Solan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microservices architecture has gained significant traction, in part owing to its potential to
deliver scalable, robust, agile, and failure-resilient software products. Consequently, many …

Socio-technical grounded theory for software engineering

R Hoda - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grounded Theory (GT), a sociological research method designed to study social
phenomena, is increasingly being used to investigate the human and social aspects of …

Adopting DevOps in the real world: A theory, a model, and a case study

WP Luz, G Pinto, R Bonifácio - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019 - Elsevier
DevOps is a set of practices and cultural values that aims to reduce the barriers between
development and operations teams. Due to its increasing interest and imprecise definitions …

A model of requirements engineering in software startups

J Melegati, A Goldman, F Kon, X Wang - Information and software …, 2019 - Elsevier
Context Over the past 20 years, software startups have created many products that have
changed human life. Since these companies are creating brand-new products or services …

Building a collaborative culture: a grounded theory of well succeeded devops adoption in practice

WP Luz, G Pinto, R Bonifácio - Proceedings of the 12th acm/ieee …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Background. DevOps is a set of practices and cultural values that aims to reduce the barriers
between development and operations teams. Due to its increasing interest and imprecise …

XPro: a model to explain the limited adoption and implementation of experimentation in software startups

J Melegati, H Edison, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software startups develop innovative, software-intensive products or services. Such
innovativeness translates into uncertainty regarding a matching need for a product from …

Towards a hypothetical framework to secure DevOps adoption: Grounded theory approach

S Rafi, W Yu, MA Akbar - … of the 24th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Security in DevOps is a challenging feature because traditional existing methods of security
are not fulfilling the exact requirements of DevOps. To make DevOps activities successful for …

Paths out of poverty: Social entrepreneurship and sustainable development

X Zhang, Y Sun, Y Gao, Y Dong - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Poverty reduction in rural areas is an important development goal concerned by the
international community, but the traditional poverty-reduction methods have certain …

Strategies of Product Managers: Negotiating Social Values in Digital Product Design

E Lev Ari, M Roichman, E Toch - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Product managers are central figures in digital product development, coordinating teams
and prioritizing features. Despite their influence, little research explores how their decisions …