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Finding Evidence for Effectual Application Development on Digital Platforms

Authors : Onkar Malgonde, Alan Hevner

Published in: Designing the Digital Transformation

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The development of novel software applications on digital platforms differs from traditional software development and provides unique challenges to software development managers and teams. Platform-based applications must achieve application-platform match, application-market match, value propositions exceeding platform’s core value propositions, and novelty. These desired properties support a new vision of the software development team as entrepreneurs with a goal of developing novel applications on digital platforms. In this research study, we look for evidence on an open-source software development project – Apache Cordova – that development teams use effectual thinking. Over one thousand user stories are analyzed for the use of constructs from a proposed effectual software development research model. The findings provide an initial confirmation that effectual development methods hold promise for the definition of new process models that better support application development on digital platforms. We conclude with a discussion on the implications of our results, research contributions, and future directions.

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Metadata
Title
Finding Evidence for Effectual Application Development on Digital Platforms
Authors
Onkar Malgonde
Alan Hevner
Copyright Year
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59144-5_20

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