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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Scrum and Function Points:
friends or foe

How agile are Function Points? Many organizations have learned that they can get a better grip on their software projects by estimating them with function points. At the same time, we see that more and more organizations have an Agile…

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Making sound IT project calculations

Preventing 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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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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Functional Size Measures
Are they worth the effort?

I strongly believe they are and I am often surprised and disappointed that more organisations do not implement Functional Size Measures. Productivity is a concept that is widely discussed right from governments at a national level down to individual companies,…

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