Innovation Assessment Challenges In Software Development Projects Within IT Start-ups

This research has been conducted to investigate challenges during innovation assessment in software development projects. Successful products based on innovation are a driving force for growth of IT start-ups. Innovation assessment process is an essential step for increasing chance of developing successful products from innovative ideas. The focus of this paper is on innovation assessment within IT start-up companies to highlight challenges on their processes. Such processes apply on ideas before development of them as new products into the market. This research is qualitative and conducted by using in-depth interviews with four entrepreneurs and co-founders in four different IT start-ups. Analysis of the data has been conducted by thematic analysis. The result presented current challenges in five different themes. These highlighted themes may clear a roadmap for improvement of assessment processes in software innovations. This research could be an area of interest for developing a customized framework in innovation assessment for IT start-ups