Stakeholder management in value-based software development: systematic review

• Published in: IET software Vol. 8; no. 5; pp. 219 - 231
• Main Authors: Imran Babar, Muhammad, Ghazali, Masitah, Jawawi, Dayang N.A, Elsafi, Abubakar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage The Institution of Engineering and Technology 01.10.2014; The Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Subjects: Computer programs; economic leverage; Economics; flnancial streams; Gain; Management; SIQ approach; Software; Software development; software development management; stakeholder attributes; stakeholder characteristics; stakeholder identiflcation and quantiflcation approach; Stakeholder management; stakeholder quantiflcation metrics; standard systematic literature review guidelines; Streams; success critical stakeholders; value-based software development; VBS development; VBS systems; VBS systems; software development management; economic leverage; stakeholder quantiflcation metrics; success critical stakeholders; value-based software development; stakeholder attributes; VBS development; SIQ approach; stakeholder characteristics; standard systematic literature review guidelines; stakeholder management; stakeholder identiflcation and quantiflcation approach; flnancial streams
• ISSN: 1751-8806; 1751-8814; 1751-8814
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2013.0216

In the value-based software (VBS) development, an innovative idea is realised in order to gain an economic leverage. The VBS systems deal with financial streams and this thing make them different from the conventional systems. The success of a VBS system is associated with a valuable set of requirements. The valuable requirements can only be gathered from success critical stakeholders. To select a set of success critical stakeholders, different stakeholders identification and quantification (SIQ) approaches are presented by the researchers. The current approaches cannot be adopted as a standard as different methods and processes are adopted in different approaches. In this study, the aim is to find out the reported evidence based attributes or characteristics of the stakeholders and their usage context in terms of their application in different domains, stakeholders’ quantification metrics, the reported stakeholder types and the reported issues of VBS development. The standard systematic literature review guidelines are used as given by Barbara Kitchenham. The literature evidence shows that there is a need to explore all the possible stakeholders’ attributes. The stakeholders’ metrics can be derived by using the stakeholders’ attributes and a new SIQ framework can be proposed for the VBS systems.