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Value-Based Software Engineering: Seven Key Elements and Ethical Considerations

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Value-Based Software Engineering

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This chapter presents seven key elements that provide candidate foundations for value-based software engineering:

  1. 1.

    Benefits Realization Analysis

  2. 2.

    Stakeholder Value Proposition Elicitation and Reconciliation

  3. 3.

    Business Case Analysis

  4. 4.

    Continuous Risk and Opportunity Management

  5. 5.

    Concurrent System and Software Engineering

  6. 6.

    Value-Based Monitoring and Control

  7. 7.

    Change as Opportunity

Using a case study we show how some of these elements can be used to incorporate ethical considerations into daily software engineering practice.

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  1. Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California, 941 W. 37th Place, SAL Room 328, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

    Barry W. Boehm

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  1. Institute for Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Stefan Biffl

  2. School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Aybüke Aurum

  3. Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California, 941 W 37th Place, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

    Barry Boehm

  4. Software Engineering NRC Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada, Building M50, 1200 Montreal Rd., Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A 0R6

    Hakan Erdogmus

  5. Systems Engineering & Automation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Paul Grünbacher

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Boehm, B.W. (2006). Value-Based Software Engineering: Seven Key Elements and Ethical Considerations. In: Biffl, S., Aurum, A., Boehm, B., Erdogmus, H., Grünbacher, P. (eds) Value-Based Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29263-2_6

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