The IT community has always struggled with questions concerning the
value of an organizationa (TM)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 a" 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.
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.
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