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Read articles on agile, by leading software metrics experts.

Analysis of Velocity (Speed of Delivery)

24 March 2023

The differences between the Agile concept of velocity and the traditional idea of delivery speed is discussed. The results from analyzes of Velocity (Delivery Speed) of recent, Java projects in the ISBSG repository is displayed. In particular, the Delivery Speed of projects within different functional-size groupings is considered.

Agile Control

17 August 2022

ISBSG partner, IDC, examines how application development teams can incorporate objective metrics into their performance.

Simple Function Point

25 January 2022

The contractual management of Agile projects increases the importance of accurate sizing methods.

Agile Team

25 January 2022

Managing the IT function in management and development is more important than ever. It is wrongly assumed that agile, DevOps or multidisciplinary teams do not need planning or leadership.

Agile Project Productivity

23 August 2021

ISBSG has collected more data for projects carried out in an agile-way of working. In this short paper, the difference in productivity between traditional and agile projects is analyzed.

Agile Team Size Estimation

23 August 2021

For agile teams, it’s usually quite easy to estimate the cost. The important management questions are: How many people should be in the team in order to have specific functionality at a given time? How can progress be measured during this time?

Managing Agile Activities

23 August 2021

Agile enables development teams to bring major benefits to software customers. Functionality is delivered faster and closer to business needs than was possible with old ‘waterfall’ processes. COSMIC, IFPUG and Nesma have collaborated to produce a report that shows how their methods can be used to manage Agile-at-Scale activities. This can be achieved whilst leaving existing Agile processes unchanged at the team level. Your free copy of the report is available here.

Agile Team Productivity

22 August 2021

Agile software development empowers teams. It enables software to be developed centrally, rather than with a project-specific focus. This requires less management control.

Benchmarking Agile Teams

24 February 2021

Standardized functional sizing methods can produce KPIs that compare teams and benchmark their productivity against independent data sources.

Agile Benchmarking

18 September 2020

Learn about experience-based and research-based benchmarking in agile. This includes: client reactions to agile and trends in agile methods and practices.

Agile Functional Sizing

19 August 2018

Brazilian IT company, TI Métricas, draw upon their experience in the software industry to examine functional sizing methods, including Agile.

Agile Team Effort

22 August 2016

This addresses why agile development teams should ignore estimates and focus on development tasks. New strategies should also be adopted.

Agile Benchmarking

22 August 2016

A summarization of Agile studies is presented: 016 benchmarking results, Agile adoption, Agile and CMMI, Agile scaling and building an Agile culture.

Agile Velocity

22 August 2015

This talk explains how the ISBSG database can be used to determine velocity in terms of size, based on the story points assigned to story cards. No additional metrics are needed except some automated COSMIC counting. The approach uses the powerful concept of transfer functions, and also the Buglione-Trudel matrix for determining story cards priorities.

Automated Function Analysis

22 August 2015

We present a prototype of a technical framework to perform AFP (Automated Function Point Analysis) on software built on a canonical architecture (Java Enteprise with Entities modeled using JPA 2.0 – the Java Persistence Framework). The solution is integrated in Sonarqube. It allows for on-the-fly assessment of a new quality metric that we propose, called “Technical Delay”.