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Benchmark Report

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How would you like to have your project’s productivity benchmarked against the ISBSG Repository? This short paper explains how you can receive a free benchmark report, when you submit project data to the ISBSG repository.

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Analysis of Application Groups

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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.

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Analysis of Velocity (Speed of Delivery)

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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.

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Project Cost per FP

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‘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.

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CRM Projects

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This short paper determines whether there are key factors that influence the productivity and delivery speed of CRM projects.

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Legacy Applications

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This short paper examines a high-level business case to to rebuild a Cobol legacy application in Java. ISBSG Data, for similar Java projects, provides metrics for: cost, effort, maintenance and support. This information is used as the basis for the business case.

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Cobol Projects

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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.

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Output Based Contracting

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In this short paper, we explain the way ISBSG data can be used to contract application development teams based on output instead of the usual Time & Materials method.

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Using ISBSG Data to Measure Team Performance

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Calculate key ‘market average’ metrics from ISBSG data. These metrics can then be used to benchmark your team’s performance.

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Productivity per Industry Sector

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Learn more about the productivity of medium-sized projects in various industry sectors.

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