4 metrics comparison

One of my clients asked me to compare metrics so I built this table. Regards, Capers Jones About the author: Capers Jones is CTO of Namcook Analytics, a company that builds advanced risk, quality, and cost estimation tools. This blogpost was originally…

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How to manage Vendor Performance

Managing Vendor Performance is to both parties’ advantage There are a variety of reasons why we outsource our application development and maintenance activities to third-party vendors. There are an equal number of ways that the contractual arrangements for these are…

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Agile Metrics

What is the state-of-the-art? Agile methodologies nowadays gain popularity and have become a mainstream of software development due to its ability to generate high customer satisfaction. Estimation and metrics consultancy receives more and more ‘Agile assignments’ and are supposed to…

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The Software Project Benchmark tool

The tool is live! In November 2014 I announced that within the Software Engineering Research Group of Delft University of Technology we were building a tool that is based on a so-called Cost/Duration Matrix. I am proud and happy at…

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ISBSG Software Benchmark R13 released

The International Software Benchmarking Standards Group is very proud to announce that it has now released R13 of its New Developments and Enhancements (D&E) repository, containing the project data of 6,760 completed software realization projects. A broad range of project…

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Troublesome software metrics
cause errors in estimates

Introduction The software industry is one of the largest and most successful industries in history. But software applications are among the most expensive and error-prone manufactured objects in history. Software needs accurate estimates of schedules, costs, and quality. These are…

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