VALUE-BASED SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A Business Perspective on Software Projects

Anderson Itaborahy, Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Rildo Ribeiro dos Santos

2008

Abstract

When an organisation decides to invest in a software project it expects to get some value in return. Thus, decisions in software project management should be based on this expected value by trying to understand and influence its driver factors. However, despite the significant progress software engineering and project management has experienced in recent years, both disciplines work in a ‘value neutral’ context, by which is meant focusing on technical correctness and adherence to plans. This paper intends to contribute to a view of software project management based on business value by identifying value determinant factors in a software project and proposing some tools for recording and monitoring them. The proposed approach will be tested in a real project, in order to evaluate its applicability and usefulness in decision-making.

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Itaborahy A., Marçal de Oliveira K. and Ribeiro dos Santos R. (2008). VALUE-BASED SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A Business Perspective on Software Projects . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-36-4, pages 218-225. DOI: 10.5220/0001694502180225


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Anderson Itaborahy and Káthia Marçal de Oliveira and Rildo Ribeiro dos Santos},
title={VALUE-BASED SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A Business Perspective on Software Projects},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={218-225},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001694502180225},
isbn={978-989-8111-36-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - VALUE-BASED SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT - A Business Perspective on Software Projects
SN - 978-989-8111-36-4
AU - Itaborahy A.
AU - Marçal de Oliveira K.
AU - Ribeiro dos Santos R.
PY - 2008
SP - 218
EP - 225
DO - 10.5220/0001694502180225