Quality Articles

An Updated Software Almanac

Industry expert Phillip G. Armour highlights the importance of the QSM Software Almanac: 2014 Research Edition in his recent article for Communications of the ACM.

Article Categories: Metrics Productivity Effort Sizing Team Size Quality Schedule Software Re-Use Agile

Familiar Metric Management: QSM Database Shows Drop in Productivity

By Larry Putnam Sr. and Ware Myers

This article discusses the drop in productivity and decline in reliability and how to fix these issues.

Article Categories: QSM Database Productivity Benchmarking Data Process Improvement Quality Sizing Software Model

Familiar Metric Management: Reliability

By Larry Putnam Sr. and Ware Myers

No software system of any realistic size is ever completely debugged—that is, error free

Edward Yourdon and Larry L. Constantine, 1975 1

Article Categories: Metrics Quality Defects Mean Time to Defect Estimation

Familiar Metric Management

By Larry Putnam Sr. and Ware Myers

What is the minimum of control that will maintain the process? Peter F. Drucker 1

Article Categories: Metrics Productivity Estimation Sizing Effort Cost Quality Schedule