An indispensable addition to your project management, software engineering or computer science bookshelf, this book illuminates and simplifies otherwise complex topics in ROI. It presents extremely simple, but powerful metrics, models, and methods for designing professional business cases and providing hard-hitting economic justification. It explores the most popular international methods, models, and standards for software process improvement. The author’s practical tutorial on the costs, benefits, and ROI of software process improvement is a soup-to-nuts guide that helps readers rapidly master powerful concepts. Rico demystifies esoteric concepts in ROI and provides a self-contained tutorial of ROI methods for novices as well as economic experts and a treasure-trove of value adding economic data which is missing from popular texts. The ROI of Software Process Improvement features a number of free downloads to help continue the learning process outside the pages of the book.
This book also features a companion product available for purchase. It is a complete 365-page ROI IDEF0 Methodology Download that can help save you hundreds of hours of development time.
Foreword
Preface
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Web Added ValueTM
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Software Process Improvement
Chapter 3 : Methods for Software Process Improvement
Chapter 4 : Methods for Return on Investment Analysis
Chapter 5 : Methods for Benefit Analysis
Chapter 6 : Methods for Cost Analysis
Chapter 7 : Software Inspection Process ROI Methodology
Chapter 8 : Personal Software Process ROI Methodology
Chapter 9 : Team Software Process ROI Methodology
Chapter 10 : Software Capability Maturity Model® ROI Methodology
Chapter 11 : ISO 9001 ROI Methodology
Chapter 12 : Capability Maturity Model Integration® ROI Methodology
Chapter 13 : Costs
Chapter 14 : Benefits
Chapter 15 : Benefit/Cost Ratio
Chapter 16 : Return on Investment
Chapter 17 : Net Present Value
Chapter 18 : Breakeven Point
Chapter 19 : Analysis of Return on Investment
Chapter 20 : Optimizing Return on Investment
Chapter 21 : Future of Software Process Improvement
