If you have any responsibility for applying measurement to IT Application Development,Application Support or Outsourced Service supply in these areas, this is the book for you! You may be the Sponsor of a Software Metrics program, responsible for implementing such a program or part of a Benchmarking initiative. This book can help you avoid the pitfalls inherent in such programs so that you make your program a success. SOFTWARE METRICS: BEST PRACTICES FOR SUCCESSFUL IT MANAGEMENT will give you a comprehensive introduction to the subject area. Beyond this, the book provides a wealth of useful case study information and gives a wide range of useful, practical measurement models, based on years of experience across many industry sectors, that you can start to use today. This book is unique in that, as well as giving the technical, subject background necessary to make Software Metrics work, it presents a full lifecycle for measurement program development and implementation. This lifecycle breaks the whole, complicated problem of getting a measurement program up and running into manageable phases; each one defined and described in detail with easy to follow descriptions. Even Function Point Analysis, the break point for many a program, is de-mystified and placed into the context of what it does and how it can work for you. All of this is presented in an easily understood style that assumes no prior knowledge while the experience of the author, gained over twenty years of measurement practice in the IT arena, is such that even experienced practitioners will gain from reading this book. ENDORSED BY THE EUROPEAN SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION "The European Software Process Improvement (ESPI) Foundation is pleased to endorse this book. We see it as a valuable and helpful contribution to the world wide challenge to achieve real and measurable process improvement within the software engineering industry. Only by sharing experiences, both positive and negative, can we hope to accelerate the improvement of development and support activities within our industry. The author is well known to us within the Foundation having spoken at our annual conference and other ESPI events on numerous occasions and we can genuinely state that this book positively contributes to the sharing of experience that we exist to promote." - Tony Elkington, Director, ESPI Foundation
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Paul Goodman's book is not exactly light entertainment. However, it is definitely well worth the read. Paul deals very clearly - and extremely throughly - with every aspect of software metrics I had ever thought about and many more that I hadn't. A must have if you a serious about the subject.
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When I first started to think about writing this book I wanted something that would be more than just a discussion about Software Metrics. I wanted to do more than just talk about Function Points or McCabe metrics or time recording. Important though this technical end of the subject is it was, to me, only part of the story. At that time, and still sadly today, many measurement programs fail but I had been involved in a couple of successful measurement initiatives and had friends in other organizations around the world who could also claim similar success. What I realised was that it was the way in which the development and implementation of a measurement program was approached that made it successful. I have tried to capture the essence of that successful approach in this book.
So yes, you will find mention of Function Points and Mccabe metrics and even time recording but, hopefully, you will also find a great deal more. If you find my efforts useful, informative or helpful please let others know by posting a review here. Thank you
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In this chapter I would like to define what it is I mean by the term Software Metrics; to discuss in general terms the domain covered by that term according to my definition, and to discuss some of the reasons why an organization may consider the use of Software Metrics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
generalized cost models, metrics initiative, primary estimator, metrics program, software metrics, software development function, engineering months, customer authority, metrics team, cost estimation process, feasibility team, base metrics, measurement initiative, metrics database, viewpoint authorities, design metrics, cyclomatic complexity, service level management, local coordinators, soft factors, development lifecycle, field reliability, metrics project, software engineering environment, defect reports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In this chapter I would like to define what it is I mean by the term Software Metrics; to discuss in general terms the domain covered by that term according to my definition, and to discuss some of the reasons why an organization may consider the use of Software Metrics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
generalized cost models, metrics initiative, primary estimator, metrics program, software metrics, software development function, engineering months, customer authority, metrics team, cost estimation process, feasibility team, base metrics, measurement initiative, metrics database, viewpoint authorities, design metrics, cyclomatic complexity, service level management, local coordinators, soft factors, development lifecycle, field reliability, metrics project, software engineering environment, defect reports Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Software Engineering Economics by Barry W. Boehm on page 52, and Back Matter
- Software Reliability Handbook by Rook on page 49, and Back Matter
- Project Management: A Managerial Approach (Series: Wiley Series in Production/Operations Management) by Jack R. Meredith on page 80
- Software Metrics by Norman E. Fenton in Back Matter
- Project Management: WITH Fast Forward MBA in Project Management by Jack R. Meredith on page 80
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