IMPLEMENTING A VALUE-BASED APPROACH TO SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PRODUCT ASSESSMENT

Pasi Ojala

2007

Abstract

Recently more and more attention has been focused on the costs of SPI as well as on the cost-effectiveness and productivity of software development. This study outlines the main concepts and principles of a value-based approach and presents an industrial case where value assessment based on value-based approach has been used in practise. The results of the industrial case show that even though there is still much to do in making the economic-driven view complete in software engineering, the value-based approach outlines a way towards a more comprehensive understanding of it. For companies the value assessment offers useful help when struggling with cost-effectiveness and productivity related problems.

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Ojala P. (2007). IMPLEMENTING A VALUE-BASED APPROACH TO SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PRODUCT ASSESSMENT . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-06-7, pages 329-332. DOI: 10.5220/0001323703290332


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Pasi Ojala},
title={IMPLEMENTING A VALUE-BASED APPROACH TO SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PRODUCT ASSESSMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={329-332},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001323703290332},
isbn={978-989-8111-06-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - IMPLEMENTING A VALUE-BASED APPROACH TO SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PRODUCT ASSESSMENT
SN - 978-989-8111-06-7
AU - Ojala P.
PY - 2007
SP - 329
EP - 332
DO - 10.5220/0001323703290332