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Authors:
Beata Czarnacka-Chrobot
Keywords: business software systems development and enhancement projects variants; rational investment decision; benchmarking data repositories; software engineering economics
Abstract:
Execution of Business Software Systems (BSS) Development and Enhancement Projects (D&EP) is characterised by the exceptionally low effectiveness, leading to the considerable financial losses. Thus it is necessary to rationalize investment decisions made with regard to the projects of this type. Each rational investment decision should meet two measurable criteria: of effectiveness and of economic efficiency. In order to make ex ante evaluation of these criteria, being key to the decision-making process, one may successfully use ever richer resources of benchmarking data, having been collected in special repositories that were created with improvement of software processes in mind. The goal of this paper is to present possibilities of rationalization of investment decision concerning the choice of BSS D&EP execution variant with the use of benchmarking data on the basis of a case study. These issues classify into economics problems of software engineering.
Pages: 453 to 458
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: October 23, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4235
ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011