Succeeding with Use Cases: Working Smart to Deliver Quality

Chapter 7. Calculating Your Company's ROI in Use Case Configuration Management

There is no question that a commercial requirements management tool is useful for use case management, but can it pay for itself at your company? This chapter looks at a model to help you calculate the return on investment (ROI) on requirements management tools for use case management. Not only will it help you decide if such tools make sense for your company, it also helps illustrate some of the problems CM of use cases is meant to address.^[1]

^[1] See Hass (2003), particularly the "Calculation of Profitability" section of Chapter 5, "Scoping the Configuration Management Task," for an overview of configuration management ROI in general.