Familiar Metric Management: What Will the Year 2000 Fix Cost Me?
This article discusses how SLIM can be used to prepare for and assess the costs the year 2000 may bring.
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Familiar Metric Management: Productivity of the Reuse Organization
The management metrics and the process productivity index computed from them can be applied, not only to organizations developing new application systems, but also to units specializing in the development of reusable components.
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Familiar Metric Management: Software Reuse
“While reuse has long been more of a hope than a promise, the greatest opportunity for dramatic productivity and quality improvement will be through improved ways to build new software on the progressively richer foundation of previously produced products.” Watts S. Humphrey 1
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Familiar Metric Management: Time Boxing
“That phrase, time boxing, has a fine manly ring to it,” the vice president said, grinning broadly. “I like it.”
“What does it mean to you,” we inquired.
“First you box in the development time you allow a project to have,” he answered.
“No more shilly-shallying around. You draw a box on the time line, like this (Figure 1). The project people know they have to deliver at the end of the box.”
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Familiar Metric Management
What is the minimum of control that will maintain the process? Peter F. Drucker 1
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