Related to process and the earlier series on project management, Measurement Based Guidance for Software Projects adds metrics and process to project management. Measuring Process Improvement is a more general document that is applicable to both IT and business. However, in order to improve processes you must first understand the process being analyzed as a candidate for improvement. One characteristic that most processes share, and one of the more common improvement drivers, is cycle time - how long it takes to complete the process. Time is, indeed, money. The Cycle Time Improvement Guidebook is about engineering process improvement. While it is not strictly a business- or IT-specific guidebook it contains all of the essential information and a strategy for identifying improvement opportunities and how to exploit them.