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Value-based software engineering: reinventing

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 28, Issue 2

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https://doi.org/10.1145/638750.638775

Published: 01 March 2003 Publication History

Abstract

The Value-Based Software Engineering (VBSE) agenda described in the preceding article has the objectives of integrating value considerations into current and emerging software engineering principles and practices, and of developing an overall framework in which they compatibly reinforce each other. In this paper, we provide a case study illustrating some of the key VBSE practices, and focusing on a particular anomaly in the monitoring and control area: the "Earned Value Management System." This is a most useful technique for monitoring and controlling the cost, schedule, and progress of a complex project. But it has absolutely nothing to say about the stakeholder value of the system being developed. The paper introduces an example order-processing software project, and shows how the use of Benefits Realization Analysis, stake-holder value proposition elicitation and reconciliation, and business case analysis provides a framework for stakeholder-earned-value monitoring and control.

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1. Applied computing
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 28, Issue 2

March 2003

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DOI:10.1145/638750

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