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Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment
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Return on Software: Maximizing the Return on Your Software Investment

by Steve Tockey
August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
15h 28m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 3 Self-Study Questions

1.
  • Initial investment: Buy sufficient GPS hardware, train the developers in GPS navigation, and so on.

  • Operating and maintenance: Costs to operate and maintain the development environment. Salary costs of the project staff and so on.

  • Sales income: Income from selling the software to customers, income from customization services that a given customer might want, and so on.

  • Cost avoidance: Using the product internally for other purposes; for instance, in helping the sales staff find customer offices when they make sales calls and so forth.

  • Salvage value: The remaining value in the development environment and other project-related hardware and software.

3.
8.Monthly personal finances
Income
 Employment income
 Investment ...
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