May 4th, 2007
Capers Jones has just published a new edition of his vintage-1998 book, Estimating Software Costs (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007). It’s not light reading: 664 pages full of tables and charts, lists of techniques and strategies for estimating cost, schedule, defects, and maintenance effort for different kinds of software projects.
In addition to, or possibly instead of, reading the book, you might also want to hear Capers lecture on some of the key issues of software productivity, quality, and maintenance. He’s speaking at several of the 2007 Software Best Practice conferences, including Toronto on May 10th, Albany on June 7th, and Jersey City (NJ) on June 14th.
