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Criteria for Selecting Software Requirements to Create Product Value: An Industrial Empirical Study

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Product value is based on which requirements are included in a specific release of a software product. This chapter provides an overview of the value concept and presents an empirical study conducted as an industrial survey. The objective of the survey was to quantify the importance of different decision making criteria when deciding whether to include a requirement in a project or release. The results reported from the survey are based on responses from two companies. It was discovered that there were similarities in responses at a company level, although major differences existed between individual respondents to the survey. The most important criteria were found to be those related to specific customers or markets and criteria, such as development cost-benefit, delivery date, and resources. The least important criteria were those related to development and maintenance. The results also indicate that a better balance between the most important and least important criteria ought to be achieved in the future.

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  1. Department of Systems and Software Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Box 520, SE-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Claes Wohlin

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

    Aybüke Aurum

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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

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Wohlin, C., Aurum, A. (2006). Criteria for Selecting Software Requirements to Create Product Value: An Industrial Empirical Study. 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_9

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