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. He was born in

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, United States and graduated from the University of Florida, having majored in English. He later became the President and CEO of Capers Jones & Associates and latterly Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR).Software Productivity Research
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He formed his own business in 1984, Software Productivity Research, after holding positions at IBM and

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. After retiring from Software Productivity Research in 2000, he remains active as an independent management consultant. He is a Distinguished Advisor to the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ).

References

Bibliography

* ''Programming Productivity'', Capers Jones, Mcgraw-Hill, 1986. . * ''Software Assessments, Benchmarks and Best Practices'', Capers Jones, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000. . * ''Estimating Software Costs 2nd Edition'', Capers Jones, McGraw-Hill, 2007. . * ''Software Engineering Best Practices : lessons from successful projects in the top companies'', Capers Jones, McGraw-Hill, 2010, . * ''The Economics of Software Quality'', Capers Jones, Olivier Bonsignour and Jitendra Subramanyam,

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, 2011. . * ''The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering'', Capers Jones, Addison-Wesley, 2014. .

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