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Title: Hard to Recommend
Review: Not a good book. No index. No bibliography. The book begins with some poor overviews of what we mean by ROI and what we mean by Software Process Improvement. It then goes on to give very detailed descriptions of how the author chooses to measure ROI for several major SPI approaches. He then goes on to cite cost and benefit numbers coming out of his calculations. Based on these numbers, he makes some pretty strong conclusions about the relatively high cost and relatively low benefits of most of the major SPI approaches in use today. His overall agenda seems to be to convince people that most SPI efforts are too expensive and not worthwhile (which is in stark contrast to the claims made for the book in the foreword by Roger Pressman, where he says the book will help you justify continued funding for SPI). His final conclusion is that we should minimize the costs of SPI and maximize the benefits -- not something I needed a $50 book to help figure out.
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