文档介绍：Software Engineering Best Practices
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CAPERS JONES is currently the president and CEO of Capers Jones &
Associates LLC. He is also the founder and former chairman of
Software Productivity Research LLC (SPR). He holds the title of
Chief Scientist Emeritus at SPR. Capers Jones founded SPR in
1984. Before founding SPR, Capers was assistant director of pro-
gramming technology for the ITT Corporation at the Programming
Technology Center in Stratford, Connecticut. He was also a man-
ager and researcher at IBM in California.
Capers is a well-known author and international public speaker.
Some of his books have been translated into six languages. All of
his books are translated into Japanese, and his newest books are
available in Chinese editions as well. Among his book titles are
Patterns of Software Systems Failure and ess (International
puter Press, 1995); Applied Software Measurement,
Third Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2008); Software Quality: Analysis and
Guidelines for ess (International Thomson, 1997); Estimating
Software Costs, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2007); and Software
Assessments, Benchmarks, and Best Practices (Addison Wesley
Longman, 2000). The third edition of his book Applied Software
Measurement was published by McGraw-Hill in 2008.
Capers and his colleagues from SPR have collected historical data
from more than 600 corporations and more than 30 government
organizations. This historical data is a key resource for judging
the effectiveness of software process improvement methods. More
than 13,000 projects have been reviewed. This data is also widely
cited in software litigation in cases where quality, productivity, and
schedules are part of the proceedings. In addition to his technical
books, Mr. Jones has also received recognition as an historian after
the publication of The History and Future of Narragansett Bay in
2006 by Universal Publishers. Mr. Jones was the keynote speaker
at the a