Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process Improvement
During the last decades software process improvement (SPI) has been recognized as a usable possibility to increase the quality of software development. Implemented SPI investments have often indicated increased process capabilities as well. Recently more attention has been focused on the costs of SP...
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International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics
2008-02-01
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| description | During the last decades software process improvement (SPI) has been recognized as a usable possibility to increase the quality of software development. Implemented SPI investments have often indicated increased process capabilities as well. Recently more attention has been focused on the costs of SPI as well as on the cost-effectiveness and productivity of software development, although the roots of economic-driven software engineering originate from the very early days of software engineering research. This research combines Value Engineering and capability assessment into usable new method in order to better respond to the challenges that cost-effectiveness and productivity has brought to software companies. This is done in part by defining the concepts of value, worth and cost and in part by defining the Value Engineering process and different enhancements it has seen to offer to software assessment. The practical industrial cases show that proposed two-dimensional method works in practise and is useful to assessed companies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0603538a6c2940779ef12fe21c4e4c432022-12-21T20:16:34ZengInternational Institute of Informatics and CyberneticsJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics1690-45242008-02-01612125Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process ImprovementPasi Ojala0 Nokia During the last decades software process improvement (SPI) has been recognized as a usable possibility to increase the quality of software development. Implemented SPI investments have often indicated increased process capabilities as well. Recently more attention has been focused on the costs of SPI as well as on the cost-effectiveness and productivity of software development, although the roots of economic-driven software engineering originate from the very early days of software engineering research. This research combines Value Engineering and capability assessment into usable new method in order to better respond to the challenges that cost-effectiveness and productivity has brought to software companies. This is done in part by defining the concepts of value, worth and cost and in part by defining the Value Engineering process and different enhancements it has seen to offer to software assessment. The practical industrial cases show that proposed two-dimensional method works in practise and is useful to assessed companies.http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/S741FKB.pdf ValueCostCapability assessmentSoftwareValue EngineeringWorthSoftware process improvement |
| spellingShingle | Pasi Ojala Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process Improvement Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Value Cost Capability assessment Software Value Engineering Worth Software process improvement |
| title | Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process Improvement |
| title_full | Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process Improvement |
| title_fullStr | Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process Improvement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process Improvement |
| title_short | Combining Capability Assessment and Value Engineering: a New Two-dimensional Method for Software Process Improvement |
| title_sort | combining capability assessment and value engineering a new two dimensional method for software process improvement |
| topic | Value Cost Capability assessment Software Value Engineering Worth Software process improvement |
| url | http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/S741FKB.pdf
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