Joint effort of two Software Metrics Associations The COSMIC and IFPUG organizations have announced the publication of their joint Glossary which is the first result of the two organizations’ desire to collaborate more in the service of the software engineering community….
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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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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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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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreISBSG 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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instead of building tollgates
Bureau for IT Review The result of the Parliamentary investigation into Governmental IT projects will result in a new institute, the Bureau for IT Review (BIT). And despite the fact that the ten recommendations of the investigation committee are very good,…
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into Governmental ICT-projects
A great need for FPA and Estimating In October 2009 the House of Representatives of the Dutch Government decided to execute more investigations by composing an annual Future- and Research Program. One of these Investigations is the research into Governmental…
Read MoreTroublesome 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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