Acknowledgments

As ever, thanks to my wife Eileen for her support and patience when I’m writing my books.

Thanks also to my colleagues who provided some of the new information for the third edition: Michael Bragen, Doug Brindley, Gary Gack, Peter Hill, Watts Humphrey, Tom Love, Steve Kan, and Tony Salvaggio.

Because this book is a third edition and built on the existing data, thanks are also due to my many friends and colleagues from Software Productivity Research from 1984 to today. Some still work at SPR and others have formed their own companies or moved to existing companies, but without the solid contributions of many consultants and managers, the data would not have been collected. Thanks to Allan Albrecht, Michael Bragen, Doug Brindley, Tom Cagley, Mike Cunnane, Chas Douglis, Gail Flaherty, David Garmus, Scott Goldfarb, the late Bill Harmon, Deborah Harris, David Herron, Steve Hone, Richard Kauffman, Bob Kendall, David Longstreet, John Mulcahy, Mark Pinis, and John Zimmerman for their help in collecting and analyzing software data.

Thanks also to the rest of the SPR team who built the tools, sold the studies, and handled finances and administration: Ed Begley, Barbara Bloom, Julie Bonaiuto, Kristin Brooks, Lynne Caramanica, Sudip Chakraborty, Criag Chamberlin, Debbie Chapman, Carol Chiungos, Jon Glazer, Wayne Hadlock, Shane Hartman, Jan Huffman, Richard Kang-Tong, Peter Katsoulas, Scott Moody, Donna O’Donnel, and Susan Turner.

Thanks to Ajit Maira for suggesting the title Applied Software Measurement for the first edition of this book.

Thanks to Wendy Rinaldi and the McGraw-Hill production team for support of this book. Madhu Bhardwaj has worked on two of my books and the results have been excellent. The support of other McGraw-Hill team members such as Janet Walden, Claire Splan, and LeeAnn Pickrell have made international production enjoyable.

Thanks to Michael Milutis and the CAI and ITMPI staff for providing excellent support for distributing this and many other software books and articles. The Information Technology Metrics and Productivity Institute is now a major portal for software metrics and measurement information.