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Project Control

The importance of Project Control

For organizations employing functional size measurement (FSM) for project control, ISBSG data is a priceless resource. It offers a wealth of real-world project information, enabling precise benchmarking and informed decision-making.

ISBSG data aids in evaluating the effectiveness of FSM methodologies and empowers organizations to enhance project control by making data-driven choices.

By leveraging this data, businesses can optimize resource allocation, mitigate risks, and improve cost management, resulting in more efficient and predictable project outcomes.

ISBSG data serves as the cornerstone for achieving superior project control, promoting cost-effectiveness, and ensuring successful project delivery.

ISBSG has published many free resources on this topic, please check them here: https://www.isbsg.org/category/project-control/

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Read articles on project control, by leading software metrics experts.

Floss Sustainability

20 August 2017

Measuring the sustainability of free/libre, open-source software (i.e. FLOSS) which is developed by the collaboration of programmers.

Data Modelling

20 August 2017

Historical IT project data can be used for data modelling. This is to enable forecasting of: project costs, schedules, defects and effort.

Software Rates

20 August 2017

Software rates versus function point price? Discover the importance of FP Price and other normalized indicators against typical man hours used in software projects.

Software Costs Versus Rates

20 August 2016

Show the main conclusions from the Cost per Function Point vs Rates studies carried out by LEDAmc. Quality performance vs productivity indicators in two real scenarios, are discussed.

Software Data Collection

20 August 2016

This presentation expands the definition of software data and its scope. It also discusses the needs of next generation IT projects.

Cloud Solutions

20 August 2016

This presentation explores cloud computing and cloud solutions. It provides: an overview of the implications and costs of migration to the cloud and it uses a case study to demonstrate migration of the ‘same’ capability in each of the three cloud solution scenarios.

Cloud Costing

20 August 2016

An in-depth analysis of cloud-based computing. It includes: cloud total ownership costing, consideration of technologies, costs and benefits.

Software Verification Validation

22 August 2015

The complex software applications controlling critical safety domains, such as transportation, raise increasing concerns about the ability of software development, verification and validation processes to avoid the presence of software faults in such applications. An account of currently applied techniques and of open research challenges will be given.

IFPUG Boundary

22 August 2015

It is important to properly define boundaries in modern, multi-layered applications. CPM statements can be analyzed from an Asset Management perspective.

Software Rates

22 August 2014

The impact of different factors upon Function Point (FP) is explored, such as implementation of estimation/productivity models & de-localization of providers

Project Management Triangle

22 August 2014

However, especially in ICT industry majority of the projects overrun both the budget and schedule, and deliver less functionality than expected. In this presentation we take another look at the project management triangle, to learn how to get more outcomes with spending less money and time.

Software Development Improvement

22 August 2014

By analyzing historical data from the software industry, it is possible to improve the software productivity and quality. This is done through benchmarking and management decisions about software development practices.

Measuring with Cosmic

22 August 2014

up to now there exists no agreed method of measuring defects in ICT. UML sequence diagrams is a software model that describes data movements between actors and objects and allows for automated measurements using ISO/IEC 19761 COSMIC. Can we also use it for defect measurements that allows applying standard Six Sigma techniques to ICT by measuring both functional size and defect density in the same model?

Software Project Cost

22 August 2013

Implementing productivity models helps in the understanding of Software Development Economics, which up to now is not entirely clear. Most organizations believe that the only way to achieve improvements is lowering software rates.

Software Business Improvements

22 August 2013

In an IT context companies struggling to increase profits and often view IT as a necessary evil: one that consumes resources rather contributes to the bottom line. These organizations often don’t see value in data collection analysis or benchmarking either. However, IT can be a significant contributor when IT decisions are made after measuring and estimating both cost and return.

Software KPIs

22 August 2013

This presentation provides a walkthrough of application development KPIs that were used to understand the performance of a 6,000 Function Points program. This program composed of 18 modules/projects was delivered in 20 months consuming over 220,000 hours. Several analysis were performed during the program execution but the presentation focus on the final results and lessons learned.

ISBSG Data Analysis

22 August 2013

As corporate subscribers and partners to the International Software Benchmarks Standards Group (ISBSG ), PRICE has access to a wealth of data about software projects.

Application Lifecycle Management

22 August 2013

Requirements play a crucial role in the definition of the boundaries and identity of a project: their traceability, correct development, sharing with the stakeholders and validation determine the project failure or success. Moreover, Quality Assurance (QA) processes facilitate project management activities.

Software Testing Effort

22 August 2013

The presentation discusses key test effort data on: development/enhancement projects, business applications, real-time applications.

Software Analytics

22 August 2013

One of the core considerations with data analytics is recognizing “what is your quest”. Many options and approaches are used in data analytics, several of which are of interest to the software sector.