Creating Software Product Value in China

A product management challenge: Creating software product value through requirements selection

It is important for a software company to maximize value creation for a given investment. The purpose of requirements engineering activities is to add business value that is accounted for in terms of return-oninvestment of a software product. This paper provides insight into the release planning processes used in the software industry to create software product value, by presenting three case s...

Creating Real Value in Software Engineering Experiments

Software Product Lines in Value Based Software Engineering

Objective: Evaluate the value of a product line in terms of maintainability, extensibility and configurability with refer to the interested stakeholders: customers, maintainers, producers. Rationale: There are values that customers constantly require in a modern software application. Some of these values are supported by product lines. Nevertheless, in the industrial and scientific communities ...

Creating Value through Business Models in Open Source Software

This paper explores how the use of a business model enables value creation in an Open Source Software (OSS) environment. Open Source offers one possibility for firms that are continuously looking for new opportunities and ways of organizing their business activities to increase the amount of value they can appropriate through their capabilities. The authors argue that this value can be attained...

Cost Stickiness: Value Creating or Value Destroying (The Iranian Experience)

This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...