Download or read book Implementing the Stakeholder Based Goal Question Metric Gqm Measurement Model for Software Projects written by Dr. Prashanth Harish Southekal and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software projects today are often characterized by poor quality, schedule overruns and high costs. One of the approaches to address the poor success rate is to track the project progress with a stakeholder driven measurement model that is objective and validated theoretically and empirically. In this backdrop, based on the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) model this book proposes a generic and objective measurement model for a software project with eight key measures based on the value propositions of the stakeholders. The measurement model is validated (i) theoretically with measurement theory criteria and (ii) empirically with case studies and a global survey representing IT industry practitioners.
Download or read book A Measurement Framework for Software Projects written by Prashanth Harish Southekal and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software projects today are often characterized by poor quality, schedule overruns and high costs. Hence project decision makers need an objective and validated measurement framework to allocate limited resources and to track project progress. In this backdrop, based on the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) model, Prashanth Harish Southekal has come up with eight generic objective measures for the project stakeholders to base their corrective actions for successful project delivery . The measurement framework is validated (i) theoretically with measurement theory criteria and (ii) empirically with case studies (Controlled and Uncontrolled) including a global survey representing industry practitioners from 29 countries.
Download or read book Software Measurement Guidebook Version 02 01 00 written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The software Measurement Guidebook provides practical guidance for the quantitative Support for the management of a software project. It shows how to apply the goal-question-metric (GQM) paradigm to systematically select metrics for purposes of project control and/or process improvement. It presents methods for estimating software size, cost, and development schedule, and for monitoring and evaluating the status of a software project. The guidebook also describes the role of software metrics in raising the capability maturity level of a software development organization. It presents guidance on how to collect and validate metrics data and how to feed back experience data to developers as part of statistical process control. It presents measures of software quality and describes models for estimating and predicting software defects. Also, methods for estimating the impact of code reuse on software cost, schedule, and quality are presented.
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Download or read book The Benefits to Management of Using GQM Continuous GQM and V GQM in a Measurement Program written by Roger Kurian and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations have several different kinds of measurement programs around cost, time, risk, quality, management buy-in, user buy-in, etc. In order to conduct a measurement program, information on the measurement objectives are captured in the form of metrics. In the past, there have been several problems reported with software metrics. The most critical of these is the fact that these metrics do not provide an easy way to be comprehended and applied. GQM is one such method that helps ask specific questions towards the management goals and provides for metrics that answer these specific questions. Since this metrics plan is defined purely based on management goals, GQM provides for better use of such software metrics by tying these metrics to the management goals. Thus, the GQM methodology provides for better understanding and base-lining the management organization's practices by taking a structured and collective approach towards deriving metrics. The GQM methodology provides for effective metrics that help answer important questions tied to management goals. However, even such an effective metrics program may sometimes not be successful. One of the most important causes is that such programs may be hard or difficult to implement. Variations to the GQM methodology such as continuous GQM and V-GQM are far easier to use and save the management time and effort. The introduction of the GQM methodology to software measurement was a significant step forward in that, when used, it causes software measurement users to consciously consider the connections between what they want and need to accomplish and the metrics used. The continuous GQM variation was developed in conjunction with the automated use of metrics. The V-GQM variation used the idea of continuous GQM, though without requiring automated metrics, to highlight additional benefits of repeated uses of the GQM methodology. However, even with significant advances and improvements in software measurement programs, these programs will often not be successful without positive buy-in from managers and metrics users. Interestingly, managers and metrics users are not always most interested in the quality of the measurement programs. Often, especially, when busy, managers and metrics users really want a measurement program that in many ways is self sustaining and this self sustainability is a natural benefit of the continuous GQM and the V-GQM methodologies. Of course, the most self sustaining metrics programs are in some ways the automated ones. However, especially, from managers' perspectives, the continuous GQM and especially, the V-GQM are very self sustaining from a monitoring perspective. With the V-GQM methodology, once the metrics program is set up, it can run until the goal or goals are obtained. Such a program is ideal from a manager's perspective. This self sustainability of using the continuous GQM and, especially, the V-GQM is an aspect of these methodologies which is a highlight of my using these methodologies in my data warehouse project. The measurement projects were easy for me to implement, and their use was transparent to my manager. By the use of a real-life project, each of the above methodologies have been put to use and benefits derived by management by the use of such methodologies have been documented in this thesis. Other potential benefits to management by the use of such methodologies such as finding out the rate of increase of data and the amount of data in the data warehouse at any given point in time are also highlighted in this thesis. Management/organizations can thus take advantage of these methodologies and apply them to several measurement programs.
Download or read book Proceedings Seventh International Software Metrics Symposium written by and published by IEEE Computer Society Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty papers presented at an April 2001 symposium report on measurement, empirical studies and other quantitative and qualitative methods applied to software development, management and quality assurance. Some of the topics are: a software cost estimation model based on categorical data, the influence of team size and defect detection technique on inspection effectiveness, information theory based measures of coupling and cohesion of a module, and usage measurement for statistical web testing and reliability analysis. Other topics include evaluating software degradation through entropy, a feedback approach to validation of a GQM study, the impact of design properties on development cost in object oriented systems, and using simulation to evaluate prediction techniques. No subject index. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Product Focused Software Process Improvement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Design It written by Michael Keeling and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't engineer by coincidence-design it like you mean it! Filled with practical techniques, Design It! is the perfect introduction to software architecture for programmers who are ready to grow their design skills. Lead your team as a software architect, ask the right stakeholders the right questions, explore design options, and help your team implement a system that promotes the right -ilities. Share your design decisions, facilitate collaborative design workshops that are fast, effective, and fun-and develop more awesome software! With dozens of design methods, examples, and practical know-how, Design It! shows you how to become a software architect. Walk through the core concepts every architect must know, discover how to apply them, and learn a variety of skills that will make you a better programmer, leader, and designer. Uncover the big ideas behind software architecture and gain confidence working on projects big and small. Plan, design, implement, and evaluate software architectures and collaborate with your team, stakeholders, and other architects. Identify the right stakeholders and understand their needs, dig for architecturally significant requirements, write amazing quality attribute scenarios, and make confident decisions. Choose technologies based on their architectural impact, facilitate architecture-centric design workshops, and evaluate architectures using lightweight, effective methods. Write lean architecture descriptions people love to read. Run an architecture design studio, implement the architecture you've designed, and grow your team's architectural knowledge. Good design requires good communication. Talk about your software architecture with stakeholders using whiteboards, documents, and code, and apply architecture-focused design methods in your day-to-day practice. Hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, and practical team-based decision-making tools will get everyone on board and give you the experience you need to become a confident software architect.
Download or read book Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering written by Caitlin Sadowski and published by Apress. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the most out of this foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software teams. This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 "Dagstuhl" seminar on productivity in software engineering, a meeting of community leaders, who came together with the goal of rethinking traditional definitions and measures of productivity. The results of their work, Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering, includes chapters covering definitions and core concepts related to productivity, guidelines for measuring productivity in specific contexts, best practices and pitfalls, and theories and open questions on productivity. You'll benefit from the many short chapters, each offering a focused discussion on one aspect of productivity in software engineering. Readers in many fields and industries will benefit from their collected work. Developers wanting to improve their personal productivity, will learn effective strategies for overcoming common issues that interfere with progress. Organizations thinking about building internal programs for measuring productivity of programmers and teams will learn best practices from industry and researchers in measuring productivity. And researchers can leverage the conceptual frameworks and rich body of literature in the book to effectively pursue new research directions. What You'll LearnReview the definitions and dimensions of software productivity See how time management is having the opposite of the intended effect Develop valuable dashboards Understand the impact of sensors on productivity Avoid software development waste Work with human-centered methods to measure productivity Look at the intersection of neuroscience and productivity Manage interruptions and context-switching Who Book Is For Industry developers and those responsible for seminar-style courses that include a segment on software developer productivity. Chapters are written for a generalist audience, without excessive use of technical terminology.
Download or read book Aligning Organizations Through Measurement written by Victor Basili and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aligning an organization’s goals and strategies requires specifying their rationales and connections so that the links are explicit and allow for analytic reasoning about what is successful and where improvement is necessary. This book provides guidance on how to achieve this alignment, how to monitor the success of goals and strategies and use measurement to recognize potential failures, and how to close alignment gaps. It uses the GQM+Strategies approach, which provides concepts and actionable steps for creating the link between goals and strategies across an organization and allows for measurement-based decision-making. After outlining the general motivation for organizational alignment through measurement, the GQM+Strategies approach is described concisely, with a focus on the basic model that is created and the process for creating and using this model. The recommended steps of all six phases of the process are then described in detail with the help of a comprehensive application example. Finally, the industrial challenges addressed by the method and cases of its application in industry are presented, and the relations to other approaches, such as Balanced Scorecard, are described. The book concludes with supplementary material, such as checklists and guidelines, to support the application of the method. This book is aimed at organization leaders, managers, decision makers, and other professionals interested in aligning their organization’s goals and strategies and establishing an efficient strategic measurement program. It is also interesting for academic researchers looking for mechanisms to integrate their research results into organizational environments.
Download or read book System Requirements Engineering written by Pericles Loucopoulos and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: System Requirements Engineering presents a balanced view of the issues, concepts, models, techniques and tools found in requirements engineering research and practice. Requirements engineering is presented from business, behavioural and software engineering perspectives and a general framework is established at the outset. This book considers requirements engineering as a combination of three concurrent and interacting processes: eliciting knowledge related to a problem domain, ensuring the validity of such knowledge and specifying the problem in a formal way. Particular emphasis is given to requirements elicitation techniques and there is a fully integrated treatment of the development of requirements specifications through enterprise modelling, functional requirements and non-functional requirements.
Download or read book Software Process Improvement written by Rory O'Connor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is intended for SPI (software process improvement) managers and - searchers, quality managers, and experienced project and research managers. The papers constitute the research proceedings of the 16th EuroSPI (European Software Process Improvement, www.eurospi.net) conference held in Alcala (Madrid region), September 2–4, 2009, Spain. Conferences have been held since 1994 in Dublin, 1995 in Vienna (Austria), 1997 in Budapest (Hungary), 1998 in Gothenburg (Sweden), 1999 in Pori (Finland), 2000 in Copenhagen (Denmark), 2001 in Limerick (Ireland), 2002 in Nuremberg (G- many), 2003 in Graz (Austria), 2004 in Trondheim (Norway), 2005 in Budapest (Hungary), 2006 in Joensuu (Finland), 2007 in Potsdam (Germany), 2008 in Dublin (Ireland), and 2009 in Alcala (Spain). EuroSPI established an experience library (library.eurospi.net) which will be conti- ously extended over the next few years and will be made available to all attendees. EuroSPI also created an umbrella initiative for establishing a European Qualification Network in which different SPINs and national initiatives join mutually beneficial collaborations (ECQA – European Certification and Qualification Association, www.ecqa.org). With a general assembly during October 15–16, 2007 through Euro-SPI partners and networks, in collaboration with the European Union (supported by the EU L- nardo da Vinci Programme) a European certification association has been created (www.eu-certificates.org, www.ecqa.org) for the IT and services sector to offer SPI knowledge and certificates to industry, establishing close knowledge transfer links between research and industry.
Download or read book Software Product Quality Control written by Stefan Wagner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality is not a fixed or universal property of software; it depends on the context and goals of its stakeholders. Hence, when you want to develop a high-quality software system, the first step must be a clear and precise specification of quality. Yet even if you get it right and complete, you can be sure that it will become invalid over time. So the only solution is continuous quality control: the steady and explicit evaluation of a product’s properties with respect to its updated quality goals. This book guides you in setting up and running continuous quality control in your environment. Starting with a general introduction on the notion of quality, it elaborates what the differences between process and product quality are and provides definitions for quality-related terms often used without the required level of precision. On this basis, the work then discusses quality models as the foundation of quality control, explaining how to plan desired product qualities and how to ensure they are delivered throughout the entire lifecycle. Next it presents the main concepts and techniques of continuous quality control, discussing the quality control loop and its main techniques such as reviews or testing. In addition to sample scenarios in all chapters, the book is rounded out by a dedicated chapter highlighting several applications of different subsets of the presented quality control techniques in an industrial setting. The book is primarily intended for practitioners working in software engineering or quality assurance, who will benefit by learning how to improve their current processes, how to plan for quality, and how to apply state-of-the-art quality control techniques. Students and lecturers in computer science and specializing in software engineering will also profit from this book, which they can use in practice-oriented courses on software quality, software maintenance and quality assurance.
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Software Engineering written by John J. Marciniak and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all aspects of engineering for practitioners who design, write, or test computer programs, this updated edition explores all the issues and principles of software design and engineering. With terminology that adheres to the standard set by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the book features over 500 entries in 35 taxonomic areas, as well as biographies of over 100 personalities who have made an impact in the field.
