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The aim of this interpretive qualitative study was to understand how software product management (SPM) activities differ in SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and in large enterprises (LEs). We studied thirteen software organizations representing various types of software products and analyzed the collected data by applying the grounded theory method. As a result, we summarized the observations, explaining the main differences between SMEs and LEs and identified SPM activities that are size-dependent, size-independent, and specific for SMEs and LEs only. Our results indicate that the company size affects goals and activities of SPM. Therefore, companies of different size require different approaches in the adoption of SPM activities.
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Maglyas, A., Nikula, U., Smolander, K. (2012). Comparison of Software Product Management Practices in SMEs and Large Enterprises. In: Cusumano, M.A., Iyer, B., Venkatraman, N. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 114. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30746-1_2
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