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Nowadays software companies are facing a fierce competition to deliver better products but offering a higher value to the customer. In this context, software product value has becoming a major concern in software industry, leading for improving the knowledge and better understanding about how to estimate the software value in early development phases. Other way, software companies encounter problems such as releasing products that were developed with high expectations, but they gradually fall into the category of a mediocre product when they are released to the market. These high expectations are tightly related to the expected and offered software value to the customer. This paper presents an approach for estimating the software product value, focusing on the development phases. We propose a value indicators approach to quantify the real value of the development products. The aim is early identifying potential deviations in the real software value, by comparing the estimated versus the expected. We present an internal validation to show the feasibility of this approach to produce benefits in industry projects.
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Castro, O., Espinoza, A., Martínez-Martínez, A. (2012). Estimating the Software Product Value during the Development Process. In: Dieste, O., Jedlitschka, A., Juristo, N. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7343. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31063-8_7
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