What are Hackathons for?

IEEE Software

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 60-67

  Komssi, Marko ^a   Pichlis, Danielle ^b   Raatikainen, Mikko ^b   Kindstrom, Klas ^a   Jarvinen, Janne ^a  

^a F Secure Corporation   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

design; hackathon; initiation and scope definition; organizational management and coordination; process implementation and change; rapid prototyping; requirements and specifications; software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DESIGN; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS PROBLEMS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; HACKATHON; INITIATION AND SCOPE DEFINITION; ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATIONS; PROCESS IMPLEMENTATION AND CHANGE; SOFTWARE PRODUCT COMPANIES;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 84940426298     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2014.78     Document Type: Article

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