When Prototyping Meets Storytelling. Practices and Malpractices in Innovating Software Firms

Raffaele Ciriello; Alexander Richter; Gerhard Schwabe

doi:10.1109/ICSE-SEIP.2017.24

When Prototyping Meets Storytelling. Practices and Malpractices in Innovating Software Firms

Raffaele Ciriello, Alexander Richter, Gerhard Schwabe

University of Zurich

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Abstract

Storytelling is an important but often underestimated practice in software engineering. Whereas existing research widely regards storytelling as creating a common understanding between developers and users, we argue that storytelling and prototyping are intertwined practices for innovators to persuade decision makers. Based on a two-year qualitative case study in two innovating software firms, we identify and dialectically examine practices of storytelling and prototyping. Our study implies that storytelling and prototyping should be integrated together into software engineering methods.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Proceedings
Number of pages	10
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	22 May 2017
Pages	163-172
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-2717-4/17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIP.2017.24
Publication status	Published - 22 May 2017
Event	39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2017) - Buenos Aires, Argentina Duration: 20 May 2017 → 27 May 2017

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Conference	39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2017)
Country/Territory	Argentina
City	Buenos Aires
Period	20/05/2017 → 27/05/2017

Keywords

software engineering
prototyping
storytelling

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Ciriello, R, Richter, A & Schwabe, G 2017, When Prototyping Meets Storytelling. Practices and Malpractices in Innovating Software Firms. in 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Proceedings. IEEE, pp. 163-172, 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2017), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20/05/2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIP.2017.24

When Prototyping Meets Storytelling. Practices and Malpractices in Innovating Software Firms. / Ciriello, Raffaele; Richter, Alexander; Schwabe, Gerhard.
2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Proceedings. IEEE, 2017. p. 163-172.

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