[Information theory and best practices in the IT industry examining benchmarking in the business of software development and studying how it is affected by development process, application type, hardware platforms used, and many other variables.Next the book identifies different variables which affect productivity and variables that affect quality, developing useful equations that explaining their relationships. Finally these equations and findings are applied to case studies. , Information theory and best practices in the IT industry examining benchmarking in the business of software development and studying how it is affected by development process, application type, hardware platforms used, and many other variables.Next the book identifies different variables which affect productivity and variables that affect quality, developing useful equations that explaining their relationships. Finally these equations and findings are applied to case studies. ]