I am working on a new article about the Business Value of Software Factories.......
In this article we will discuss our approach, the difficulties we encountered, and the quantitative results of building a thin, vertical slice of a system using the Software Factory approach. The goal of this work was showing the quantitative measurable business value of introducing the Software Factories paradigm in a large enterprise development project.
Introduction
Why Software Factories? This is a question we frequently get asked from many of our clients when introducing our work. While it seems obvious that increased reuse, higher level of abstraction and increased automation provides advantages to today’s text based software development efforts, it is not enough to justify the necessary upfront investment to upper management and other stakeholders. Therefore, we started to look for quantitative data would clearly show the business case for using this paradigm. ......
Stay tuned, you will be able to find this article online soon.... Probably on MSDN....
