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WAYNE C. LIM is a founder and managing director of the Lombard Hill Group, a consulting firm that enables organizations to systematically institutionalize reuse practices. He helped start and manage Corporate Reuse Programs at Hewlett-Packard and Ford Aerospace. Mr. Lim is the recipient of the 1994 Best Article Award from IEEE Software for his research in reuse. He completed his MBA at Harvard University and graduate engineering coursework at Stanford University. He may be contacted via http: //www.lombardhill.com or Wayne_Lim@post.harvard.edu.

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Make software reuse a profitable reality in your organization.

In Managing Software Reuse, expert Wayne C. Lim tackles the strategic planning, economic, organizational, and metric issues that limit reuse in so many companies. He covers the entire lifecycle, offering "best practices" strategies that really work, and sharp insights into the organizational issues that make or break reuse projects.

Managing Software Reuse shows exactly how to:

• Utilize an adoption model to systematically institutionalize reuse.
• Select pilot projects that pave the way for wide deployment of reuse.
• Perform a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether reuse is economically viable.
• Harness the potential of software reuse to obtain competitive advantage.
• Create a reuse vision and mission statement to guide reuse efforts.
• Organize, train, and motivate your staff to support reuse.
• Identify and implement appropriate reuse metrics.
• Select the appropriate reuse tools for your organization.

If you want proven strategies for implementing reuse in every stage of the software development cycle, this book is required reading.