Towards a pattern language for software start-ups

Abstract

A growing trend in industrial software engineering is that new software products and information services are developed under conditions of notable uncertainty. This is especially visible in startup enterprises which aim at new kinds of products and services in rapidly changing social web, where potential customers can quickly adopt new behavior. Special characteristics of the startups are lack of resources and funds, and start-ups may need to change direction fast. All these affect the software engineering practices used in the start-ups.