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Developing a theory of value-based software engineering

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EDSER '05: Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Economics-driven software engineering research

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1083091.1083101

Published: 15 May 2005 Publication History

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This paper presents an initial "4+1" theory of value-based software engineering (VBSE) that builds around the stakeholder win-win Theory W, and addresses the questions of "which values are important?" and "how is success assured?" for a given software engineering enterprise. The central Theory W then draws upon four additional theories - utility theory (how important are the values?), decision theory (how do stakeholders' values determine decisions?), dependency theory (how do dependencies affect value realization?), and control theory (how to adapt to change and control value realization?).

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EDSER '05: Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Economics-driven software engineering research

May 2005

65 pages

ISBN:159593118X

DOI:10.1145/1083091

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4
July 2005
1514 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/1082983
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