Software economics: a roadmap

摘要: The fundamental goal of all good design and engineering is to create maximal value added for any given investment. There are many dimensions in which can be assessed, from monetary profit the solution social problems. benefits sought often domain-specific, yet logic same: an investment activity. Software economics field that seeks enable significant improvements software through economic reasoning about product, process, program, portfolio policy issues. We summarize state art identify shortfalls existing knowledge. Past work focuses largely on costs, not benefits, thus added; nor current technical criteria linked clearly creation. present a roadmap research emphasizing need strategic approach engineering. discuss how lead engineering, theory practice.