Are you looking for a way to reduce your ICT costs? Or do you want to increase your market share by reducing your products. time-to-market? Are you interested i... » 

Are you looking for a way to reduce your ICT costs? Or do you want to increase your market share by reducing your products. time-to-market? Are you interested in outtasking, outsourcing and offshoring? Or do you want to improve your ICT operations yourself?

Managing a Software Factory provides a complete and integral view of all aspects of a software factory. Catchwords are predictability, reliability, quality and high productivity focusing on cost reduction and short time-to-market.

Managing a Software Factory can be used as a guide to professionalize your ICT organization and provides a manual for setting up software factories. The book is written for ICT managers, contract-, project- and service managers, architects and senior software engineers. The concepts and processes described are based on well-known and less known theories.

Managing a Software Factory comprises the management aspects of process management, resource management, demand-supply management, global sourcing, empowerment, continuous improvement, quantitative software management and factory management, including some key performance indicators.
Managing a Software Factory contains impressive metrics about the realized predictability and productivity improvements of software development based on twelve years experience.

About the author
Kees Kranenburg works for Atos Origin as Portfolio and Competence manager. He is responsible for the services, competences and innovation of the Software Development &Maintenance Center. «