A Systematic Mapping Study on the Use of Software Engineering Practices to Develop MVPs

A systematic mapping study and practitioner insights on the use of software engineering practices to develop MVPs

“…Moreover, the intermediate spreadsheets used to control the study selection and the extracted data from all the studies are available and auditable. 1 The fact that the identified practices were understood, mostly recognized, and sometimes even applied by the focus group participants also improved our confidence in having provided a comprehensive and meaningful overview. However, we conducted only two focus group sessions, and they were scoped to a specific context (e.g., all participants were from the ExACTa initiative).…”

“…Then, we extended our previous effort [1] by providing more details on the mapping study and also presenting results of two additional focus group sessions conducted to discuss the findings of the systematic mapping related to RQs 1-4. These sessions were attended by professionals active in innovation projects within an industry-academia collaboration initiative, in which the MVP concept has been extensively applied.…”

“…The entire procedure is detailed in our online repository. 1 The authors were aware of one additional study that was not retrieved by the search strategy [8] and analyzed the reason for missing it. Although it concerned software-based MVPs and was indexed in Scopus, the paper did not use the term "software" in its abstract.…”

“…Also to improve reliability, the selected studies and the extracted data are available online. 1 Unfortunately, we could not make the focus group session video recordings available without compromising the participants' anonymity, but two researchers participated in the focus group sessions and the summaries regarding the discussions held on each mapping study research question were carefully made based on the recorded sticky notes and on the recordings, then peer reviewed and explicitly communicated to the participants, who did not raise any objection.…”

“…Considering this scenario, we synthesized existing work on practices em-ployed in the development of software products using MVPs (Alonso et al, 2021). We reported on a secondary study yielding 33 selected publications to pursue our research objective that is to understand Software Engineering practices that have been used to develop software product MVPs.…”