Capers Jones is vice president and CTO of Namcook Analytics LLC. Prior to Namcook Analytics Jones was the president of Capers Jones & Associates LLC between 2000 and 2012. He is also the founder and former chairman of Software Productivity Research LLC (SPR).  Capers Jones founded SPR in 1984 and sold the company to Artemis Management Systems in 1998.  He was the chief scientist at Artemis until retiring from SPR in 2000.

He was also a manager and software researcher at IBM in California where he designed IBM’s first two software cost estimating tools in 1973 and 1974 in collaboration with Dr. Charles Turk. He was also a designated IBM public speaker at a variety of internal and external software conferences including SHARE, GUIDE, and others. 

Capers Jones is a well-known author and international public speaker.  Some of his books have been translated into five languages.  His five most recent books are The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering, Addison Wesley 2014;  The Economics of Software Quality with Olivier Bonsignour, Addison Wesley, 2011; Software Engineering Best Practices, McGraw Hill 2010; Applied Software Measurement, 3^rd edition, McGraw Hill, 2008; and Estimating Software Costs, McGraw Hill, 2^nd edition, 2007.

Among his older book titles are Patterns of Software Systems Failure and Success (Prentice Hall 1994); Estimating Software Risks, International Thomson 1995;  Software Quality: Analysis and Guidelines for Success (International Thomson 1997); and Software Assessments: Benchmarks, and Best Practices (Addison Wesley Longman 2000).