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Reducing Risk with Software Process Improvement

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I have to say that I'm impressed. It is a very well structured book, similar to the CMMI model structure. It has real life problems and solutions, which you can use to imitate or avoid. Tips and practices that you should and should not do are widely depicted throughout the whole book.

If you are on the try to improve the way software is built in your company this book is a good start that will advice you on what should be done.

It's worth the buy, believe me.

This book provides very practical information on what counts most in software process improvement. (This is quite useful if you want to get the biggest bang for your process improvement buck.) There's a lot of wisdom packed into this easy-to-read and entertaining book.

Anecdotes on benefits/consequences of implementing/not improving processes really helped understand why best practices are important, and useful guidance on how to implement them. Easy read that gets to the point. Good explanation of Murphy's Law with details on how to estimate financial losses resulting from risk exposure that can be used in all kinds of situations.

This book was given to me by a friend who knew I was managing a group involved in improving productivity, and it made me rediscover what improvement meant.

I passed it around to my colleagues to read, so that we could discuss the rationale for implementing specific improvement approaches. Among other things, it made us realize that improving productivity is really all about reducing the number of problems one has to deal with, because fewer problems imply less time wasted in managing crises and more time invested in exploiting valuable opportunities. As trivial as it may sound, this really helped us acquire a new vision of what should be done, and how to go about it.

I now feel better equipped to identify practices that need to be mastered vs. those that are just nice to have. Instead of guessing at approaches that can potentially lead to improvements, my targets are now better defined and my plans more focused.