Software economics: status and prospects

Boehm, Barry; Sullivan, Kevin

doi:10.1016/s0950-5849(99)00091-9

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“…Since most work on IT is not on developing new systems, but on maintenance, operation and user-support [6], an alternative way to compare IT efficiency than only looking at the development efficiency, is looking upon how work is distributed in the IT-organization, and the amount being done on value-adding work. Application systems are valuable when they provide information in a manner that enables people to meet their objectives more effectively [2]. An application system is part of an encompassing organizational system, which in turn is part of a broader business environment.…”

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“…Given the intrinsic evolutionary nature of the sources of system needs as described above, it should come as no surprise that specifications and the related information system must evolve as well [2,26]. The goal of both development activities and maintenance activities is to keep the overall information system support of the organization relevant to the organization, meaning that it supports the fulfillment of organizational goals.…”

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Comparing Private and Public Sector on Information Systems Development and Maintenance Efficiency

Krogstie¹

2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper provides a comparison between public and private organizations on key figures relative to the information systems support activities. Many have claimed that public sector has a less satisfactory conduct of information system support than private sector. In this article we present selected data from survey investigations performed among Norwegian organizations on how they conduct information systems development and maintenance. This investigation has earlier been compared with similar investigations of this sort. A major finding from the previous comparisons is that even if we witness large changes in the underlying implementation technology and approaches used, a number of aspects such as the overall percentage of time used for maintaining and evolving systems in production compared to time used for development is remarkably stable. When we compare public and private organizations in the last survey, we find a small difference on some variables, but these are not statistically significant, thus cannot be used to conclude that IT development and evolutions is conducted more poorly in public sector than in private sector.

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Comparing Private and Public Sector on Information Systems Development and Maintenance Efficiency

Krogstie¹

2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Whereas worldwide system development costs in 1987 were estimated to around $140 billion [1], a conservative estimate for the worldwide software costs in 1998 is $600-800 billion [2]. The problem of too few systems developers compared with the opportunities and problem of information systems both, in Norway and the rest of the western world is widely acknowledged.…”

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“…Information systems are valuable when they provide information in a manner that enables people to meet their objectives more effectively [2]. Many have claimed that the large amount of system work that goes into maintenance is a sign on poor use of resources to meet these demands.…”

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A study of development and maintenance in Norway: assessing the efficiency of information systems support using functional maintenance

Holgeid

Krogstie

Sjøberg

2000

Information and Software Technology

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“…Boehm and Sullivan 3 have proposed that the essence of design is motivated by creating value added for maximizing the profit of stakeholders.…”

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Refinement on Data, Information and Knowledge Lifecycles towards Service Economics Planning to Services Implementation

Duan¹,

Hu²,

Sun³

et al. 2016

IJNDC

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Service Economics has been successfully proposed and implemented for promoting the macro service market especially in Global value chains which however don't provide guidance to and integrate directly with the IT side implementation to achieve coherent information coordination and robust adaptability which indicts maximization of business profitability. Therefore there leaves a gap of the refinement from the strategic business planning to ubiquitous services implementation in the API (Application Program Interface) economy. Recently Gio Wiederhold attributed this gap to the knowledge difference between economists and the IT professionals and proposed that IT professionals should act to fill the gap since they have irreplaceable data, information and knowledge concerning the specific implementation. As an instance of this guidance in the practice of Value Driven Design, we proposed a systemic formalization from the value calculation to the design quality measurement which binds the modification and change on the design artifacts with the business value strategy through a framework of managed quality properties in a service design process covering data, information and knowledge assets.

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Software economics: status and prospects

Cited by 49 publications

References 15 publications

Comparing Private and Public Sector on Information Systems Development and Maintenance Efficiency

Comparing Private and Public Sector on Information Systems Development and Maintenance Efficiency

A study of development and maintenance in Norway: assessing the efficiency of information systems support using functional maintenance

Refinement on Data, Information and Knowledge Lifecycles towards Service Economics Planning to Services Implementation

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