The Business Value of Software

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Acknowledgments
 Author
 Acronyms
 1: Why Software Value?
 Why Not Information Technology Value More Generally?
 Who Should Care about the Business Value of Software?
 What Is the Business Value of Software?
 Impact of Perspective on Business Value
 Software Value Sidestep
 Software Value Life Cycle
 What Role Does Time Play in the Business Value of Software?
 A More Sophisticated Definition of the Business Value of Software
 What Do We Mean by Software Value as an Asset and Software Value as a Flow? Current Approach to Managing the Business Value of Software as an AssetFinancial Perspective
 Software Maintenance Perspective
 Portfolio Management Perspective
 Current Approach to Maximizing the Flow of Software Business Value 
 What Is Lost When Software Value Is Invisible?
 2: Six Things the C-Suite Should Know about Software Value
 Chief Executive Officer
 The Board
 Chief Financial Officer
 Chief Marketing Officer
 Chief Digital Officer
 Chief Information Officer
 Lenses
 Summary
 3: Make the Business Value of Software Visible
 Why Visible? 
 Why Learning?
 Why Status? How Visible? Information RadiatorsValue of Problem Status Visualization
 Value of Process Status Visualization
 Value of Solution Status Visualization
 Summary
 4: Forms of Software Value
 Financial Forms of Software Business Value
 Software as an Asset or an Expense
 GASB Statement 42 
 How to Capitalize Agile?
 The Dark Side of Software Capitalization and Amortization?
 Software as Revenue
 Non-Financial Forms of Software Value
 Software Reputation
 Technical Debt
 Data and Information
 Open Source
 Summary
 5: Establishing Software Value Strategies
 Lean Software Development. Removal of WastePull Not Push
 Monitor and Control Variation in the Process but Not in the Inputs
 Reinertsen\' s Principles for Optimizing Value Flow through Product Development 
 Kanban
 A Portfolio Management Kanban System
 Cost of Delay and Weighted Shortest Job First
 Connecting Up the Dots between Portfolio Management and Development Teams
 End-to-End Business Value
 Orphan Stories
 SAFe Portfolio Layer and Software Value
 SAFe Value Stream Layer and Software Value
 Summary
 6: Business Value from Products and Programs
 Product or Program?
 Similarities between Products and Programs. Differences between Products and ProgramsSoftware Value for Product/Program with Enabling Portfolio Strategy
 Value Streams
 Value Stream Mapping and Analysis
 Software Value for Product/Program without Enabling Portfolio Strategy
 Product/Program Value in Waterfall Organizations
 Product/Program Value in Agile Organizations
 Organizations Using Agile and Waterfall
 Contributions to Maximizing Software Value at the Product/Program Level
 Summary
 7: Establishing Software Value Tactics
 The Why and How of Queue Management for Software Development
 Waterfall and Queue Management.