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Value-Based Software Engineering requires the capability to measure and analyze value in order to make informed decisions. The difficulty experienced by many organizations in measuring concepts that are even simpler than value suggests that this requirement will be hard to meet. The goal of this chapter is to build an understanding of measurement and decision making and the relationship between them. A multi-view model of measurement is presented as a way to cope with the complexity of measuring concepts such as value. A behavioral decision making model is presented that identifies the points at which measurement products impact the decision making behavior of a manager or software engineer. This model attempts to satisfactorily account for the idiosyncrasies of human behavior, while preserving some elements of the rational model of decision making. The chapter concludes with an application of these models to a case study in which achieving value is a key goal.

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  1. University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Michael Berry

  2. School of Information Systems, Technology and Management University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Aybüke Aurum

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  1. Institute for Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Stefan Biffl

  2. School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Aybüke Aurum

  3. Center for Software Engineering, University of Southern California, 941 W 37th Place, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

    Barry Boehm

  4. Software Engineering NRC Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada, Building M50, 1200 Montreal Rd., Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1A 0R6

    Hakan Erdogmus

  5. Systems Engineering & Automation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Paul Grünbacher

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Berry, M., Aurum, A. (2006). Measurement and Decision Making. In: Biffl, S., Aurum, A., Boehm, B., Erdogmus, H., Grünbacher, P. (eds) Value-Based Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29263-2_8

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