A giant leap forward Nesma president Ton Dekkers and ICEAA president Brian Glauser have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will enable Nesma and ICEAA to cooperate on the development of a ‘Software Cost Engineering’ curriculum and certification program. This…
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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…
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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