Sizing Matters By Jay Daniel (May 24, 2016) Software developers using Agile shouldn’t overlook sizing as an important component of their estimations.
5 Core Metrics to Reduce Outsourced Software Project Failure By Joe Madden (April 19, 2016) Lawrence Putnam Sr. discovered the “physics” of how engineers build software by successfully modeling the nonlinear relationship between the five core metrics of software: product size, process productivity, schedule duration, effort and reliability. A powerful tool that can be used at each phase of the software acquisition life cycle to help IT program managers make more objective, quantitative decisions.
10 Steps to Better Software Project Metrics By Carol Dekkers (August 13, 2015) How to build and maintain effective software process analytics
An Updated Software Almanac By Phil Armour (July 15, 2015) QSM’s Software Almanac: 2014 Research Edition is highlighted by Philip G. Armour in this article for Communications of the ACM.
Full-Circle Estimating By Doug Putnam (June 29, 2015) Continuing to track key metrics about your projects, as well as analyze historical data, enables your estimates to become full circle and improve your processes.
Failing with the Best Intentions By Doug Putnam (April 16, 2015) Parametric estimation helps business leaders and IT organizations shine light on unrealistic expectations, as well as capacity and demand limitations, early in the estimation process, leading to more effective development cycles.
Estimate Before, During, and After the Software Project By Larry Putnam Jr (October 15, 2014) Feasibility studies, continuous forecasts, and creating benchmarks are three basic rules to help you and your PMO get the most out of estimating efforts.
A Case Study in Implementing Agile By Taylor Putnam (August 12, 2014) This case study analyzes one business organization’s transition from a waterfall software development method to Agile, and how it affected their productivity.
Counting Function Points for Agile / Iterative Software Development By Carol Dekkers (August 5, 2014) This article highlights the importance of consistent terminology, and the application of rules, in creating consistent Function Point counts across a variety of development projects.
Traits of Successful Software Development Projects By Larry Putnam Jr (July 2, 2014) We analyzed the QSM Database of completed projects to determine what traits successful software projects have in common with one another.