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   On 12/06/2011 09:01 PM, tortoise underscore ignoreme 74 at yahoo. nospam   
   co.uk wrote:   
   > Hi,   
   >      I am looking at tying to justify upgrade of our compiler and   
   > adoption of the subset of C++11 that is supports. I have seen and have   
   > a number of subjective arguments in favour of it but haven't seen any   
   > speculative figures in terms of costs vs benefits. Although the   
   > benefit is clear to me I am having a hard time converting my   
   > subjective assessment into a financial one.   
      
   I would suggest to you, and the whole industry, to start investigate   
   what other metrics there are except dollar. With dollar only, the sales   
   department will always be profitable and the R&D department a cost.   
      
   Everyone needs money in the end though, so if we could see a connection   
   between some other metric and dollar profit, then we could focus on that   
   metric instead.   
      
   I don't have the answer myself but this may be a start:   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_metric   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt   
   http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/designing-quality-software   
      
      
   But I agree with you, if even an R&D department could measure its work   
   in financial profit, we too could demand percentage on profit. ;)   
      
      
   Best regards,   
   Daniel   
      
      
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