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Managing business returns on technical software investments

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Submitted by Bryan Pflug on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 09:36

In order to be considered an engineering discipline, software engineering must integrate economics and business decision-making into their practices. Since most software professionals don't understand how these business aspects impact their work, they often find themselves in a reactive, rather than proactive, position on their projects. Understanding the business consequences should be a factor in every technical decision, including prioritizing the features to build, selecting software development processes, choosing the best design for a situation, and deciding how much testing to perform.

This book provides an excellent overview to help software professionals understand these business consequences, in situations such as:

Estimating the cost and expected returns of investments
Evaluating how timing impacts costs and benefits
Quantifying the cost of quality
Providing buffers for risk and uncertainty in software technical decisions
Communicating decisions in business language

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Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment

Author: Steve Tockey

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 656 pages

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