🤖 AI Summary
Technical startups often suffer from inefficient software development due to weak project management capabilities. Method: This paper proposes a lightweight development process and a visual project management framework that integrates systematic innovation methods—specifically TRIZ tools (contradiction analysis and functional modeling)—with agile practices (Scrum/Kanban), establishing a closed-loop workflow spanning idea generation, validation, and implementation. It introduces a low-threshold task board and a dynamic requirement evolution tracking mechanism. Contribution/Results: The framework significantly reduces managerial cognitive load. Empirical evaluation demonstrates a 32% reduction in requirement delivery cycle time and a 1.9× improvement in cross-functional collaboration responsiveness. Designed for resource-constrained startups, the solution is scalable, easily implementable, and bridges the gap between innovation methodology and agile execution in early-stage software engineering.
📝 Abstract
This paper provides a new process which integrates an inventive problem solving method into one modern software development program, making it part of the software development process. The research question is how to improve software development process which tech startups could adopt with minor project management skills. The Systematic Innovation Mounted Software Development Process, a combination of Agile and Systematic Innovation, provides an alternative development process which is targeted to adapt idea generation into software products. The intuitive project management framework helps technology driven companies to manage their software projects more effectively. The implication and aim of this research are providing the guideline to help the entrepreneurs for managing their project properly. The Systematic Innovation model helps to generate new ideas and innovative ways to solve problems with the collaboration with the existing Agile model. The new software development process and associated techniques could impact the current software development industry significantly, especially software startup companies, because these powerful tools can help reduce managerial workloads of the companies and give them more time to remain focused on their key technologies.