作者：Steve Tockey
副书名：Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment
出版日期：August 16, 2004
出版社：Addison Wesley
页数：656
ISBN：0-321-22875-8
文件格式：CHM

Is your organization maximizing the return on itsinvestments of money, time, and personnel? Probably not, because mostsoftware professionals don't know how to consider the business aspectsof their software decisions. Most don't even know that it's importantto do so. Business consequences should play a critical role in allsoftware technical choices—from choosing which projects to do,selecting software development processes, choosing algorithms and datastructures, all the way to determining how much testing is enough.

Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment isabout making choices: software technical choices in a business context.It helps software professionals appreciate the business consequences ofthe decisions they make. This primer will prove a valuable referencefor making the important decisions the typical software organizationfaces both today and down the road. Inside, you'll learn how to:



Estimate how much each proposed software technical decision will cost, and how much it will return.

Weigh the time frames for a software decision'scosts and benefits against each other to reveal when there might be amore important factor than schedule.

Attach a value to quality and produce a rational answer to the question, “How much testing is enough?”

Account for risk and uncertainty in software technical decisions, such as when considering a new technology.

Communicate your decisions in a way that speaks to the all-important bottom line.

Each chapter contains a set of self-study questionsdesigned to help you apply the featured concepts and techniques. Anenhanced online index allows you to quickly and easily search theentire text for specific topics.