Hi,
I am very interested in finding more info on the topic of Software Economics such as current research, groups, publications, etc. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can point me in the right direction.
Cheers,
Bash
Perhaps these general ideas could help you in your finding: Software economics is the study of how scarce project resources are allocated for software projects. Software economics helps software managers allocate those resources in the most efficient manner. The process of counting function points, gathering data, analyzing data is commonly referred to as Software Metrics, but in reality is a branch of economics which should be called Software Economics.
Software economics is situated at intersection of information economics and software design and engineering. The goal is to understand the relationships between economic objectives, constraints, and conditions and technical software issues. Then use this understanding to improve software productivity. The reason is very simple: Many in the field of software development limit their understanding of the field to only the technical aspects, ignoring other important elements such as economics.
Software Economics examines the entire idea of software development and it includes many different disciplines.
• Psychology - focuses on the study of behavior and the reward/punishment model. "What get's rewarded gets done."
• Social Psychology - focuses on how people behave in an organization, quality of work life, and peer pressures.
• Organizational Behavior - is the process of analyzing the structure of an organization to understand those structural issues impacting organizational productivity and quality.
• Economics - the study of prices, costs, and scarcity.
• Statistics - deals with quantitative and qualitative techniques for the collection of data, how data is analyzed, and how results are presented.
The Goal of Software Economics is the development fundamental knowledge to enable significant, measurable increases in the value created over time.
Some literature that can be used:
-Software Economics: A Roadmap Barry Boehm & Kevin Sullivan
-Ariadi Nugroho, Joost Visser, Tobias Kuipers (2011). An Empirical Model of Technical Debt and Interest. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt.
-Software project management Software economics By BUSHRA WARIS
-Advances in Software Economics de Karl Popp (Redactor)
-The Economics of Software Quality of Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour
-Software economics: status and prospects of B Boehm, and K Sulliva
If one thinks of software as "technology" and its ubiquity as "adoption rate" and "lock-in" then Brian Arthur is a very good source literature to start with. Ultimately we are dealing with the economics of "idea-infection"
http://www.im.ethz.ch/education/HS08/arthurlockin1989_2.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/The-Nature-Technology-What-Evolves/dp/1416544062
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