Nesma offers significant discounts on ISBSG corporate subscriptions! Nesma encourages organizations that are serious about improving their decision-making capabilities based on data to become ISBSG corporate subscriber. This subscription gives you the most value possible and helps you leverage the…
Read MoreIf you are not familiar with lean manufacturing and the associated methodologies, 5S might be a bit of a mystery to you. Before I dive into explaining it in detail, and how it can be applied with great results to software…
Read MoreThe International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) announces the introduction of the Productivity Data Query tool as a replacement for the Data portal. Now it becomes easy to select a subset of productivity, speed and quality data from the ISBSG…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreIf you go to Google and search for “measuring software developer productivity” you will find a whole lot of nothing. Seriously — nothing. Nick Hodges, Measuring Developer Productivity By now we should all know that we don’t know how to…
Read MoreNesma considers the availability of historical data of software projects and maintenance of an utmost importance for the industry. Nesma is therefore a proud member of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG). This not-for-profit organization collects industry project data…
Read MorePreventing IT project failure The Dutch government (see conclusions of the Elias committee) has published an investigation report that the Dutch Government has no control over the majority of their own IT projects. At the start there are no reliable…
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