The current webcomic on xkcd.com titled “Is It Worth The Time” has a fantastic table listing how long you can work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you will save, based on a 5-year payback plan.
As a company spending most of our time and effort focusing on the general problem of accelerated software development and delivery, this is obviously great data and icing on the cake that can be used to justify the value of our solutions and offerings.
How much time and effort are you spending today optimizing and accelerating your software builds, tests and release processes?