I recently met a software professional who was evaluating a software product to be bought and used in their company. As the discussion progressed, I realized that most of the metrics that he talked about were about the software itself. Lines of code, response time, hardware requirements, everything seemed to be about the software itself. [Continue]
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Cost Of Software Is Not Only The Money
Tom DeMarco has an excellent essay on Why Does Software Cost So Much? it is a view from within the software industry, replying not to the question, but saying that it is in fact not costly. I agree with his thoughts. [Continue]
Software As A Solution
JP muses about ROI of IT. It is quite ironical that as IT seems to be getting more critical it is getting more difficult to measure its ROI. I believe there is a lot of difference in believing in IT as investment and IT as cost. [Continue]
Community, ROI And Effort
Kathy Sierra very elegantly charts the connection between user community and ROI. The more your users participate the less money you need. It can be frustrating when you cannot exactly pinpoint the ROI for any activity. [Continue]
Stories To Understand The Problem
Gautam Ghosh explains how stories can be effective tools for diagnosis. Although Gautam discusses from the perspective of a HR and OD consultant, the need for diagnosis and understanding the business is equally important while developing software. Not to confuse with the user stories in XP, these stories can help bring to forefront some aspects that usually documentation misses. [Continue]
Writing New Software
Mark Pilgrim writes about writing new text editors, or more importantly about garden path software. Here’s the basic problem: you’re writing a text editor. Stop doing that. [Continue]
Trying Something And Using Something
Jason Fried has an unfinished post on difference between trying something and using something. Though he has not concluded it, I agree with his observation that most of the products today are made for trying, not using. If you are not sure think about the word demo in the software world. [Continue]
Theory Of Constraints And Software ROI
The real world is ridden with constraints of various degrees. The constraints curb our options and sometimes close doors on various opportunities. Let us look at some examples where value was provided by breaking these very constraints. [Continue]
Blogging ROI
For those who do not want to accept the apparent ROI of blogging, Charlene Li lays it down (via Weblog Tools Collection) in a language that the corporate world understands. It is quite relevant as the approach is quite similar to ROI from investment like Public Relations which has indirect impact on the figures.
IT ROI Measurement Still In Incubancy
CIOInsight has revealed the bitter truth (via InfoQ) about Return On Investment (ROI) for IT projects. IT and business executives overwhelmingly agree: Their companies receive business value from their IT investments. But how much value, and what kind of value, is as clear as mud. [Continue]
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