Value engineering (VE) is a systematic analysis of the functions of various components and materials to lower the cost of goods, products and services with a tolerable loss of performance or functionality. Value, as defined, is the ratio of function to cost. Value can therefore be manipulated by either improving the function or reducing the cost. It is a primary tenet of value engineering that basic functions be preserved and not be reduced as a consequence of pursuing value improvements. The term "value management" is sometimes used as a synonym of "value engineering", and both promote the planning and delivery of projects with improved performance.
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Value Pairs: A New Way of Approaching Product Development
How AI-enabled teams can change how we think about product development
Values Aren’t a Moral Imperative
Credit: pxhere One of the most impactful exercises in DRI Your Career has been the values exercise (Jean wrote about it here). At first this surprised me, but then I thought about it more. Even whe…
Deconstructing the Machine Learning Value Chain
This essay offers a materialist analysis of machine learning in the form of a critical intervention that deconstructs the value chain of this technological para
Visualize Value — Ideas, made visible
An ongoing practice of turning ideas into images. Visual ideas about work, markets, technology, culture, and human behavior by Jack Butcher.
Cognitive engineering
Cognitive engineering is an interdisciplinary field that applies principles from cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and human factors to design and develop engineering systems that effectively support or enhance human cognitive processes.[1][2] The field emerged in the 1980s when Donald Norman and others recognized the need to better understand how humans interact with complex technological systems.[3]
The community-first software era
Some ideas about how to encode our values into the tools we use
values based software talks
Talk #3 Files, algorithms, media, software as lived practice, and personal software
No cost, no value | jola.dev
Why generating code makes it meaningless, why writing code by hand has value, and why toil is a critical part of the human experience.
Paths to business value in Developer Relations
DevRel is not content creation, but centred on helping developers solve problems and build better software through building real apps with real users.
Valuing What Counts: Framework to Progress Beyond Gross Domestic Product: Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 4
The New Science of Designing for Humans (SSIR)
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On the Impact of the Utility in Semivalue-based Data Valuation
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“I think there’s a lot of value in these.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
Loss function
In mathematical optimization and decision theory, a loss function or cost function is a function that maps an event or values of one or more variables onto a real number intuitively representing some "cost" associated with the event. An optimization problem seeks to minimize a loss function. An objective function is either a loss function or its opposite, in which case it is to be maximized. The loss function could include terms from several levels of the hierarchy.
You have to beat the models at something
In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…