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Lean Startup as a Project Management Method in Science Organizations

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Applied Technologies (ICAT 2021)

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The paper analyzes the Lean Startup method as a project management tool and its possible application in scientific organizations. The research is motivated by some unsatisfied results in the development of innovation in many scientific organizations that follow standard project management methodologies. No matter, the Lean Startup method is typically used to develop software, product, or startup management, most of the processes that the method facilitates are also valid for general project management. The research methodology goes through a review of the literature on the main objectives of the study: project management and Lean startup and outlines the main characteristics of transforming the traditional approach to project management in research organizations to a flexible model for developing more innovative scientific results. The contribution of the study is valuable for scientists who want to implement more flexible project management to achieve more sustainable innovative results (transfer of methodological knowledge from the startup and technology industry to scientific organizations and universities).

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The work on the study and publication was supported by BG NSF Grant No KP-06 OPR01/3–2018.

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    Zornitsa Yordanova

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Miguel Botto-Tobar

  2. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE), Sangolquí, Ecuador

    Sergio Montes León

  3. Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

    Pablo Torres-Carrión

  4. Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ibarra, Ecuador

    Marcelo Zambrano Vizuete

  5. International University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Yordanova, Z. (2022). Lean Startup as a Project Management Method in Science Organizations. In: Botto-Tobar, M., Montes León, S., Torres-Carrión, P., Zambrano Vizuete, M., Durakovic, B. (eds) Applied Technologies. ICAT 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1535. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03884-6_12

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