Manfred Bundschuh is an internationally recognized expert on software measurement, estimating and international standards, with more than 40 years IT experience, as an IT controller, consultant, and project manager. In addition, he has been teaching software engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany, for more than 25 years. For the last 5 years he has been president of the DASMA e.V., the metrics organization of German speaking countries.Book information:Springer (Publisher) has full info about the book incl. Table of contents and free chapter 2 as well as reviews by Peter Hill and Capers Jones:Available at www.springer.com/978-3-540-68187-8Contact information:Email: [email protected] out SPaMCAST's Facebook page and get involved!!!!http://tinyurl.com/62z5elThe essay for this cast is titled "The Fine Line" in which I ask you fine line between overhead to meet real information needs and overhead that saps efficiencyThere are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST: * Email SPaMCAST at [email protected] * Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 * Twitter - www.twitter.com/tcagley * BLOG - www.tcagley.wordpress.com * FACEBOOK!!!! Software Process and Measurement http://tinyurl.com/62z5el Next Software Process and Measurement Cast:The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature part two of my interview with Mike Cohn on agile estimation.