Return on Investment Based on Software Process Metrics

Software process development (SPD) has been on the agenda of both academics and practitioners with CMM as its de facto scheme. Many business firms have invested large sums of money in humanizing their software processes, and several research papers document SPD's effectiveness. SPD aims to generate more effective and efficient software development and continuance by structuring and optimizing existing processes. SPI assumes that a well-managed organization with a defined engineering process is more likely to produce quality products that consistently meet the client's requirements within time and budget than a poorly managed organization with no such business process. A sound process is, however, merely one prerequisite it doesn't guarantee good products. In the following sections we presented cost-benefit numbers and that measure ROI.