Executive Summary

Corporate Software Risk Reduction in a Fortune 500 Company

Posted August 7, 2012 | Leadership | Leadership | Technology |

The chairman of a large manufacturing conglomerate, a Fortune 500 company, was troubled by several major software failures of projects terminated before completion. He was also concerned with the dissatisfaction expressed by customers in the quality of the software the corporation produced and by the inability of software executives to explain why the problems occurred and what might be done to eliminate them.

About The Author
Capers Jones
Capers Jones is the VP and CTO of Namcook Analytics LLC, President of Capers Jones & Associates LLC, and the founder and former Chairman of Software Productivity Research (SPR), where he currently holds the title of Chief Scientist Emeritus. Before founding SPR, he was Assistant Director of Programming Technology for the ITT Corporation at the Programming Technology Center. He was also a manager and researcher at IBM. Mr. Jones is a well-… Read More
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