TY - BOOK ID - 211419 TI - Value-based software engineering PY - 2006 SN - 1280461616 9786610461615 3540292632 3540259937 3642065317 PB - Berlin ; New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Software engineering KW - Costs. KW - Evaluation KW - Methodology. KW - Management. KW - Computer software engineering KW - Engineering KW - Information Technology KW - Software Engineering KW - Software engineering. KW - Information Systems. KW - Economic policy. KW - Software Engineering. KW - Management of Computing and Information Systems. KW - Innovation/Technology Management. KW - R & D/Technology Policy. KW - Economic nationalism KW - Economic planning KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Economics KW - Planning KW - National security KW - Social policy KW - Administration KW - Industrial relations KW - Organization KW - Management information systems. KW - Computer science. KW - Industrial management. KW - Business administration KW - Business enterprises KW - Business management KW - Corporate management KW - Corporations KW - Industrial administration KW - Management, Industrial KW - Rationalization of industry KW - Scientific management KW - Management KW - Business KW - Industrial organization KW - Informatics KW - Science KW - Computer-based information systems KW - EIS (Information systems) KW - Executive information systems KW - MIS (Information systems) KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Information resources management KW - Communication systems UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:211419 AB - The IT community has always struggled with questions concerning the value of an organization’s investment in software and hardware. It is the goal of value-based software engineering (VBSE) to develop models and measures of value which are of use for managers, developers and users as they make tradeoff decisions between, for example, quality and cost or functionality and schedule – such decisions must be economically feasible and comprehensible to the stakeholders with differing value perspectives. VBSE has its roots in work on software engineering economics, pioneered by Barry Boehm in the early 1980s. However, the emergence of a wider scope that defines VBSE is more recent. VBSE extends the merely technical ISO software engineering definition with elements not only from economics, but also from cognitive science, finance, management science, behavioral sciences, and decision sciences, giving rise to a truly multi-disciplinary framework. Biffl and his co-editors invited leading researchers and structured their contributions into three parts, following an introduction into the area by Boehm himself. They first detail the foundations of VBSE, followed by a presentation of state-of-the-art methods and techniques. The third part demonstrates the benefits of VBSE through concrete examples and case studies. This book deviates from the more anecdotal style of many management-oriented software engineering books and so appeals particularly to all readers who are interested in solid foundations for high-level aspects of software engineering decision making, i.e., to product or project managers driven by economics and to software engineering researchers and students. ER -