Efficiency of work output.
SAP software enables organisations to manage their business processes. ABAP, SAP’s proprietary, programming language enables SAP systems to be customised to meet the requirements of the user organisation. This short report analyses projects coded in ABAP, in the ISBSG Repository. It examines the size, productivity and delivery speed of ABAP projects.
Is the Project Delivery Rate (PDR) and Productivity the same measure? Are the values unique for all projects? What are the main drivers used to determine an appropriate value for PDR and Productivity so they provide a reference range of values?
Organizations pay large sums of money to have external companies benchmark their IT infrastructure. Application development, maintenance and support is often beyond the scope of these benchmarks. Ironically, the amount of money spent on these activities is, for many organizations, more than 50% of the total IT spend. The functional size of applications enables the calculation of valuable, benchmarking metrics. They include: Project Delivery Rate, Cost Efficiency, Delivery Speed and Value Delivered. These metrics can be compared against metrics, for similar projects, from the ISBSG Data Repository. The results of these comparisons can then used as a basis for improvements in cost and productivity for projects. This short paper delves into the world of functional size measurement, providing insights into the power of implementing and using it.
Government versus non-government projects – which organization type has higher productivity or a greater speed of project delivery?
It’s often assumed that non-government organizations might have an advantage due to their flexibility and agility. However, the evidence does not always agree. ISBSG has a valuable repository of project data that enables the in-depth analysis of the factors influencing project success. This short paper uses ISBSG Data to compare productivity and speed of delivery for government and non-government projects.
Do certain application types have better productivity rates than others? This short paper examines the productivity rates for different application types in the ISBSG Repository. It compares statistics to determine which application is a winner in terms of productivity!
We present the methods that focus solutions to the “Next Release Problem” for agile-driven developments. This includes: new algorithm proposals and novel techniques that model how the software requirements interact .
The short paper analyses the effort spent on general and specific software maintenance and support activities.
This short paper compares the productivity of projects that have different application types, from the ISBSG Repository. The application types are: Business Applications, Real-Time Applications, Mathematically-Intensive Application and Infrastructure Software.
‘Cost per Function Point’ is an industry best practice to ensure that both the customer and the supplier benefit from high productivity. This short paper analyzes the cost and functional size of projects from the ISBSG Repository.
We examine number of COBOL Projects submitted to the ISBSG Repository, since the year 2000. The median Project Delivery Rates are compared to determine whether there has been an in increase in productivity for COBOL projects.
