Function point analysis
Improving the Reliability of Function Point Measurement: An Empirical Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software measurement principles, techniques, and environments
Reliability of function points measurement: a field experiment
Communications of the ACM
Assessment and control of software risks
Assessment and control of software risks
Applied software measurement (2nd ed.): assuring productivity and quality
Applied software measurement (2nd ed.): assuring productivity and quality
The year 2000 software problem: quantifying the costs and assessing the consequences
The year 2000 software problem: quantifying the costs and assessing the consequences
Software architecture in practice
Software architecture in practice
Estimating software costs
Computing calamities: lessons learned from products, projects, and companies that failed
Computing calamities: lessons learned from products, projects, and companies that failed
Software assessments, benchmarks, and best practices
Software assessments, benchmarks, and best practices
Function point analysis: measurement practices for successful software projects
Function point analysis: measurement practices for successful software projects
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving Mission Impossible Projects
Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving Mission Impossible Projects
Computingfailure.com: War Stories from the Electronic Revolution
Computingfailure.com: War Stories from the Electronic Revolution
Measures for Excellence: Reliable Software on Time, within Budget
Measures for Excellence: Reliable Software on Time, within Budget
Statistical Models in S
Software Maintenance Management
Software Maintenance Management
Quatitative IT portolio management
Science of Computer Programming
Realities of Off-Shore Reengineering
IEEE Software
IEEE Software
Managing a multi-billion dollar IT Budget
ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Modern Applied Statistics with S
Modern Applied Statistics with S
9210: The Zip Code of Another IT-Soap
Software Quality Control
Quantifying the value of IT-investments
Science of Computer Programming
Quantifying the effects of IT-governance rules
Science of Computer Programming
Quantifying the yield of risk-bearing IT-portfolios
Science of Computer Programming
Quantifying IT estimation risks
Science of Computer Programming
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There are many goals for outsourcing information technology: for instance, cost reduction, speed to market, quality improvement, or new business opportunities. Based on our real-world experience in advising organizations with goal-driven outsourcing deals, we identified the most prominent quantitative input needed to close such deals. These comprise what we named the five executive issues enabling rational decision making. They concern cost, duration, risk, return, and financing aspects of outsourcing. They add an important quantitative financial/economic dimension to the decision making process. Based on inferred outcomes for the five executive issues, we address the easily overlooked aspects of selecting partners, contracting, monitoring progress, and acceptance and delivery conditions for contracts.