Characterization of Brazilian Software Startups Focusing on Processes, Product Quality and IT Governance

For startups, the quality of software product influences their business and consequently its survival. Many problems can happen at different times. Normally they increase with the amount of customers, the need to evolve the product, to customize it for different customers, etc. Besides this, to meet different demands fastly and with few resources is a constant challenge, because the solutions must be adequate to their conditions. This paper presents preliminary results of a survey, aiming to identify the characteristics of Brazilian startups, with their product comprising software, purposing to characterize the main problems related with the development and the evolution of their products, considering aspects related to product quality, processes and IT management.