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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Business Alignment: Measurement-Based Alignment of Software Strategies and Business Goals
Authors : Jürgen Münch, Jens Heidrich, Vladimir Mandić
Published in: Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Most of today’s products and services are software-based. Organizations that develop software want to maintain and improve their competitiveness by controlling software-related risks. To do this, they need to align their business goals with software development strategies and translate them into quantitative project management. There is also an increasing need to justify cost and resources for software and system development and other IT services by demonstrating their impact on an organization’s higher-level goals. For both, linking business goals and software-related efforts in an organization is necessary. However, this is a challenging task, and there is a lack of methods addressing this gap.