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, […]
May 3rd, 2007
Monday afternoon’s session at the Cutter Summit was devoted to Web 2.0, with Stowe Boyd providing the keynote address. I’ve known Stowe for several years, and subscribe to his blog, so I was interested to hear what he would have to say about Web 2.0 — and in particular, the impact of “social tools” on […]
May 1st, 2007
If I had to boil Rob Austin’s keynote presentation on “Learning from Innovators Around the World” down to a single sentence, it would be this: while IT has had a long (and generally successful) track record at improving profitability by cutting costs, and while it has often found some innovative ways to cut costs (e.g., […]
