- Paperback: 282 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (28 April 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0137203845
- ISBN-13: 978-0137203840
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,082,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This application-oriented book shows how to apply proven software metrics and methods to efficiently manage software development and maintenance--to help boost productivity, efficiency, and quality of software projects at every stage of the process.
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At last! New experiences and lessons from one of the authors who brought you Software Metrics: Establishing a Company-Wide Program. This exciting book has over 70 charts and graphs from real projects that will help you to manage software projects and process improvements more effectively.
Project managers: Learn through practical examples what to measure and track, which will help you more effectively manage your projects throughout the life cycle. Learn how to measure and present progress. Most importantly, learn why you need to measure and how important it is for you to tie your measurements to visible, agreed-upon project goals.
People responsible for process improvement: Learn a useful model for understanding organizational limitations. Explore the relationship between tools and the potential for achieving improvements. Examine some of the potential problems you might face and see examples of how some of them have been avoided. Finally, discover how metrics can be rolled up into useful, balanced organizational indicators.
This book emphasizes proven practices and results. These include:
- Which software development "rules" are supported by measured evidence
- How measurement should be tightly linked to organizational strategies
- How the metrics that engineers find useful help project managers as well
- What people feel about metrics and what approaches you can take to gain their support
- How metrics are used to achieve continuous process improvement
- Which measures are meaningful for a large organization
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Format:Paperback
While the book (like most other books of its kind) is a very high-level overview of its subject matter, it discusses many new and compelling ideas that you should find of great use for your own development efforts. Of particular note is the author's discussion of the FURPS+ system, in which functional and nonfunctional requirements are melded into an easily-readable matrix, and all requirements are assigned numerical grades for priority and technical risk. (FURPS+ was developed at HP, where the author works.) And project leaders should pay careful attention to the chapters on project phase metrics, where the author provides average project percentages for the major phases of development.
Format:Paperback
This book is for anyone who has a novice-level knowledge of the subject of metrics. It reinforces previously gained knowledge and expands your dossier of techniques considerably. My main use is to learn how to perform metrics gathering/analysis for the sole use of process improvement.
Format:Paperback
The rules of thumb section was very useful. I have used the software project estimation techniques to great advantage in our consulting work at journyx.com.
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