• Have you ever wanted the facts to support your project duration estimate?
• You know that throwing people at a project doesn't help much, if at all, but would you like the proof?
• Wouldn't you like to know what productivity you can expect for your environment; language, platform, team size?
• Wouldn't it be useful to know what percentage of total project you should expect to be expended in each of the project phases?
• What about defects, what are the defect levels experienced by the best projects?

These are just some of the questions that The Software Metrics Compendium will help to answer.

The Software Metrics Compendium is the ultimate software project metrics reference book. It presents detailed statistical analyses of the ISBSG Repository data, (from release 7; 1,238 projects), with minimal interpretation; presenting tables, graphs and charts for productivity, duration, phase breakdown, component breakdown, and defects, plus regression equations to help you with estimation.

The Compendium is ideal for experienced project managers, software developers, metrics consultants, (internal and external), software metrics practitioners, CIOs or academics. The Compendium can be used to study the detailed analyses of the ISBSG Repository, for benchmarking and software environment planning reference or for software project estimation.

The Compendium contains:

• A breakdown of the functional components of the projects in the Repository
• A breakdown of project effort by phase
• Tables showing analysis of Project Deliver Rates by project attributes, (e.g. development environment, [platform], language, CASE tools, methodologies etc.)
• A detailed analysis of the characteristics of development environment, (i.e. Mainframe, Mid-range and PC)
• An analysis of defect occurrence and severity
• An analysis of project duration in relation to project size and effort
• An analysis of team sizes
• Regression analyses providing regression equations for Project Delivery Rate, Project Work Effort, Project Duration and Speed of Delivery
• A detailed breakdown of the contents of Release 7 of the Repository

The ISBSG believes that the analyses contained in the Compendium provide quantitative, up to date and independent evidence of the behaviour of software development projects. The information can be used for planning, guiding, benchmarking and improving software project development and enhancement, including:

• Estimating project duration
• Estimating effort and cost
• Guiding process improvement
• Assessing outsourcing options
• Establishing optimum development team sizes
• Planning manageable project sizes to achieve on time on budget delivery
• Balancing project variables eg. rapid delivery against productivity
• Checking the components of your project estimate and its completeness
• Planning development environment components
• Establishing the impact of tools, methodologies and processes
• Benchmarking your projects' metrics against similar projects
• Post implementation review
• Asset valuation

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