ROI on Software Development
A few weeks ago I met up with an old class mate of mine from Engineering College. Vijay Sikka is a great guy, smart, hard working and sincere and so it was so nice to meet after almost 16 years. In the meantime he had worked at Intel for a long time (in the research labs) and then moved on to do his own startups. The current one is Sikkasoft (http://www.sikkasoft.com/) and develops software for managing medical practices. Now, Vijay has a ton of experience in developing software and also is an intellectual. Add this all up, and what do you get ? A book ofcourse ! Check out "Managing ROI on Software Development" (Amazon sells it). It is about the only book that I know, which attempts to tackle this important yet difficult to quantify topic. I think that Vijay has done a great job in writing this book and if you are a software engineer or project manager or an IT business manager struggling with the complexities of managing software projects and trying to quantify what ROI you are getting, then this book is a must read.
Now if I only can get him to write a book on SQL BI !