TY - BOOK ID - 86070418 TI - Benefit/Cost-Driven Software Development : With Benefit Points and Size Points PY - 2021 SN - 3030742180 3030742172 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, DB - UniCat KW - Mathematical & statistical software KW - Software Engineering KW - Mathematical Software KW - open access KW - benefits management KW - benefit points KW - earned business KW - value management KW - benefit/costs index KW - uncertainty assessment KW - periodization KW - Desenvolupament de programari KW - Anàlisi cost-benefici UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86070418 AB - This open access book presents a set of basic techniques for estimating the benefit of IT development projects and portfolios. It also offers methods for monitoring how much of that estimated benefit is being achieved during projects. Readers can then use these benefit estimates together with cost estimates to create a benefit/cost index to help them decide which functionalities to send into construction and in what order. This allows them to focus on constructing the functionality that offers the best value for money at an early stage. Although benefits management involves a wide range of activities in addition to estimation and monitoring, the techniques in this book provides a clear guide to achieving what has always been the goal of project and portfolio stakeholders: developing systems that produce as much usefulness and value as possible for the money invested. The techniques can also help deal with vicarious motives and obstacles that prevent this happening. The book equips readers to recognize when a project budget should not be spent in full and resources be allocated elsewhere in a portfolio instead. It also provides development managers and upper management with common ground as a basis for making informed decisions. ER -