Estimating the software product value during the development process
PROFES'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
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In the near history, software process and product improvement has been recognized as a usable possibility to increase the quality of software development. Recently the costs and value of software process improvement (SPI) as well as the cost-effectiveness and productivity of software development have become vitally important to many companies as competition has become tougher. The main purpose of this study is to collect experiences whether the value assessment for products support earlier-defined value-based approach and whether the value assessment works in practise, what are the strengths and weaknesses of using it and is it useful to companies. This is done by implementing value assessment in a case company step by step to study which phases possibly work and which phases possibly do not work. The industrial case shows that proposed value assessment for products is useful and supports value-based approach. As well it demonstrates in practice, the strengths and weaknesses of using it and what should be taken into consideration when implementing it. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.