Return on Software
Most software professionals don’t know how to consider the business aspects of their software decisions. Business consequences should play a critical role in all software technical choices — from choosing which projects to do, selecting software development processes, choosing algorithms and data structures, all the way to determining how much testing is enough. This book guides software professionals in making choices and helps them appreciate the business consequences of the decisions they make.
Chapter 1: Return On Software
Chapter 2: Business On Purpose
Errata
Tools
About the author
Steve Tockey is the Principal Consultant at Construx Software. He has been employed in the software industry since 1977, and has worked as a programmer, analyst, designer, researcher, consultant, and adjunct professor. During his career, which has included stints at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Boeing Company, and Rockwell Collins, Inc., Steve has obtained an in-depth knowledge of software engineering practices, including project management, estimation, quality techniques, object-oriented development and distributed object computing.
Steve has a Master’s of Software Engineering from Seattle University as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
