Ø The breakdown of effort by project phase
Ø The breakdown of effort by role for projects
Ø The Impact of Techniques & Tools
Ø Web projects compared to non web projects
Ø The impact of re-use in projects

Please note that the first four of the analyses listed above have been previously released as Special Reports.

A copy of The Benchmark should be on the desk of every CIO, IT Manager, Project Manager and Team Leader. The information in this book will help with:

• Estimating and planning the effort in each of your project phases
• Establishing the likely project effort for each of the project resources
• The usefulness of various techniques and tools
• What you should allow for if you are planning and managing a web project
• The impact of employing a re-use strategy

Purchasers of this book should be aware that a number of the analyses have already been released as Special Reports. Order

The Benchmark Release 8 analyses the factors that affect the software project duration, quality & productivity of software development & enhancement projects & package customisation projects.

A copy of The Benchmark should be on the desk of every CIO, I.T. Manager, Project Manager and Team Leader. The information in this book will help you with:

v Future project estimations,
v Software project risk analysis
v Development contract negotiations
v Assessment of the impact on your project duration, (time to market), of your choice of platforms, languages and tools.

This is an essential reference document for all I.T. professionals involved in the production or acquisition of software and for teachers of software engineering subjects and related topics.

The content of this book is based on the information that the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group has gathered on 2,027 software projects from around the world.

This release provides I.T. Customers, Project Managers, I.T. Managers, Chief Information Officers and Team Leaders, with the results of analyses of software projects including the factors that affect the project duration, (“time to market”); the quality of software development, enhancement and redevelopment; and software projects that involve the use of packages.

The information in this book will help you with your future project estimations, risk analysis and development contract negotiations. It will also show the impact on your project duration, (time to market), of your choice of platforms, languages and tools. For those involved in negotiating and managing outsourcing contracts, there is a wealth of information that you can use to establish supplier performance criteria and comparisons against similar projects.

Each release of the Benchmark features special areas of research. In this release we analyse.

v Project Duration or “time to market”
v Software Projects involving Package Customisation
v Project Quality and the post implementation cost of low quality software
v Projects that have been sized using the COSMIC functional sizing method.

In this Benchmark release you can find answers to the following questions:

v Is project duration, (“time to market”), now the main priority?
v How are faster project delivery times achieved?
v Is productivity compromised to achieve faster delivery?
v If I buy a software package, what will be the impact of customisation compared to turnkey implementation?
v What project characteristics influence the rate of defects in software?
v What defect rate can I set as acceptable for my out-sourcing or in-house development agreements?
v What is the post-implementation cost of high defect software?
v What level of function point output can I expect from a developer?

The Benchmark Release 8 can be ordered from your local ISBSG member metrics organisation, or direct from this web site