Return on Software

Maximizing the Return on your Software Investment

Steve Tockey

620 pages, parution le 14/09/2004

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Résumé

Is your organization maximizing the return on its investments of money, time, and manpower? Probably not, as most do not understand the implications their technical decisions have for these precious, limited resources. However, in order for software engineering to become a true engineering discipline, software professionals need to consider and understand the economics of their choices.

Return on Your Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment helps software practitioners appreciate the organizational ramifications of the decisions they make. Each chapter contains a series of self-study questions designed to help readers apply the featured techniques. Meanwhile, an enhanced online index allows readers to quickly and easily search the entire text for specific topics.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

Determine how much each possible software solution will cost.
Analyze how much -- or even if -- a software solution will generate income or reduce operating expenses.
Weigh the time frames for a software solution's costs and benefits against each other to reveal when schedule isn't king.
Attach a dollar amount to quality and thereby testing.
Make technical decisions while surrounded by risk and uncertainty, such as when considering a new technology.
Communicate your decisions in a way that speaks to the all-important bottom line.

Economics should play a critical role in all software choices -- from testing and development process to algorithms and data structures. As such, this primer on the engineering economy will prove a valuable reference for daunting development decisions both today and down the road.

Sommaire

Introduction and Foundations
- Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment
- Business on Purpose
- The Fundamental Concepts of Business Decisions
- The Business Decision-Making Process
- Interest: the Time Value of Money
- Other Interest(ing) Calculations
- Equivalence
- Bases for Comparison
- Developing Mutually Exclusive Alternatives
Making For-profit Business Decisions
- For-Profit Decision Analysis
- Planning Horizons and Economic Life
- Replacement and Retirement Decisions
Advanced For-profit Decision Techniques
- Inflation and Deflation
- Depreciation
- General Accounting and Cost Accounting
- Income Taxes and After-tax Cash Flow Streams
- The Consequences of Income Taxes on Business Decisions
Making Decisions in Government and Non-profit Organizations
- Making Not-For-Profit Business Decisions
Present Economy
- Break-Even Analysis
- Optimization
Estimation, Risk, and Uncertainty
- Basic Estimation Concepts
- General Estimation Techniques
- Allowing for Inaccuracy in Estimates
- Decision Making Under Risk
- Decision Making under Uncertainty
Multiple Attribute Decisions
- Decisions Based on Multiple Attributes
Summary
- Closing Remarks

A Software Project Work Breakdown Structures
B Interest Tables
C Linear Interpolation
D Derivatives
E Introduction to Probability and Statistics
F Answers to Selected Self-study Questions
G Glossary

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Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Steve Tockey
Parution	14/09/2004
Nb. de pages	620
Format	18 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1080g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780321228758
ISBN13	978-0-321-22875-8