Reading: Value Based Software Engineering
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Value Based Software Engineering
Authors
- Dr. Stefan Biffl (Technical Universtiy of Vienna)
- Dr. Aybüke Aurum (University of New South Wales)
- Barry Boehm (Editor)
- Hakan Erdogmus (Editor)
- Paul Grünbacher (Editor)
Summary
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, behavioural 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.[1]
Why is it recommend?
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.[1] Due to its value based approach it is exceptionally suitable for software business oriented readers.
Citations
Stefan Biffl and Aybüke Aurum, Value based Software Engineering, Stefan Biffl, Aybüke Aurum; Springer; 1st edition , 2005.
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- Unifying the Software Process Spectrum: International Software Process Workshop, SPW 2005, Beijing, China, May 25-27, 2005 Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Mingshu Li on page 23, page 121, and page 402
- Software Process Change: International Software Process Workshop and International Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling, SPW/ProSim 2006, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Qing Wang on page 10, and page 63
- Engineering and Managing Software Requirements by Aybüke Aurum on page 15, and page 452
- Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2003: Third XP and Second Agile Universe Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA, August 10-13, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Frank Maurer on page 8
- COTS-Based Software Systems: 4th International Conference, ICCBSS 2005, Bilbao, Spain, February 7-11, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Xavier Franch on page 24