Value-based Software Engineering: a Case Study Using Earned Value

plex project. But it has absolutely nothing to say about the stakeholder value of the system the project is developing. It serves a purpose, but needs to be incorporated into feedback control systems that focus on the real stakeholder value being earned. The value-based software engineering agenda, described in the “Accounting for Value in Software Engineering” sidebar, seeks to integrate value considerations into current and emerging software engineering principles and practices, while developing an overall framework in which they compatibly reinforce each other. One area that VBSE addresses—value-based planning and control— includes principles and practices for extending traditional cost, schedule, and product planning and control techniques that also manage the value delivered to stakeholders.