Analysis of Maintenance and Support Productivity
The short paper analyses the effort spent on general and specific software maintenance and support activities.
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Benchmark Report
/in benchmarkingHow 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.
Analysis of Application Groups
/in productivityThis 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.
Analysis of Velocity (Speed of Delivery)
/in agileThe 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.
Project Cost per FP
/in productivity‘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.
CRM Projects
/in project controlThis short paper determines whether there are key factors that influence the productivity and delivery speed of CRM projects.
Legacy Applications
/in project controlThis 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.
Cobol Projects
/in productivityWe 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.
Productivity Data Query Tool
/in productivityMaking accurate project estimations can be challenging. Being able to precisely determine project duration, effort and delivery rate are essential for the success of your IT project. The ISBSG Productivity Data Query (PDQ) Tool lets you benchmark your project estimates against similar projects from the IT industry in minutes. This short paper uses a simple example to demonstrate this.
Output Based Contracting
/in project control, recommendedIn 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.