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Software Metrics "State of the Practice"[presentation] In this session, Peter Kulik presents the results of KLCI's third industry survey on software metrics usage conducted in the fourth quarter of 2000. |
Peter Kulik, KLCI, Inc.
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Effort Tracking Made Easy[presentation] Tracking effort is often a difficult cultural change to implement. |
Lynn Cole, Spherion Technology Architects
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Managing Concurrent Software Releases in Development and Test[presentation] There is an ever-growing need to provide complex software products to customers on a short development schedule. Additionally, the customers need to be able to count on release dates for planning purposes. |
David Shinberg, Lucent Technologies
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A Disciplined Approach to High Velocity Software Development[presentation] When faced with the challenge of shortening delivery cycles, the old economy manufacturing companies utilized disciplined quality techniques to reduce scrap and rework and improve productivity. |
Girish Seshagiri, Advanced Information Services, Inc.
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The Ritual of Retrospectives: Your First Best Tool for a Learning Organization[presentation] You've just finished your software release. You have signed off, and it's been shipped. You're done, right? No! |
Norm Kerth, Elite Systems
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Program Management vs. Project Management[presentation] When a company has multiple products that are related in some way, management may choose to group those projects together under a Program Manager. |
Dulcey Branch, Texas Utilities
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Enterprise-Wide Change and Configuration Management[presentation] Multi-tier applications are increasingly strategic for many organizations, but manually coordinating the movement of disparate components-developed and deployed on multiple platforms through the software development lifecycle-can be tedious a |
Melissa Borza, Computer Associates International Inc.
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When Your Developers Don't Work for You-How I Managed A Band of "Hackers"[presentation] The future of the development world lies with a bunch of skilled programmers living wherever they want, taking whichever projects they like, naming their price, and disappearing once the project is over. |
Lee Fischman, Galorath, Inc.
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The Impact of Team/Personal Software Processes[presentation] Several years ago, the Naval Oceanographic Office initiated its process improvement effort with Team Software Process (TSP) and Personal Software Process (PSP) as its foundation. |
Edward Battle, Naval Oceanographic Office
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A New Approach for Estimating in e-Business Development[presentation] In order to control the costs and schedules of new eBusiness development projects, a revolution in estimation and the software lifecycle must take place. |
David Duncan, Cambridge Technology Partners
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Buffers and Risk: Critical Chain Project Management[presentation] Critical Chain Project Management uses statistical process control to more clearly define the relationships between tasks and the project end date by using buffers to represent process variation in project tasks. |
Robert Muller, Cytokinetics, Inc.
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Software Configuration Management[magazine] Pat Wegerson recommends software configuration management resources AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management and the online CM Yellow Pages. |
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Manage the Risks and the Process[article] Including a testing/QA component early in a software project necessarily prolongs the schedule, right? Not so, according to Ross Collard. In this, the third of a three-part series, Collard explains how to anticipate risks and to aggressively manage the process to prevent disaster. |
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Can You Predict Danger?[article] Testers are in a position to see danger coming. Speaking up early about risks that others may not see can save a project. In this article Yogita Sahoo looks at the problem of NOT speaking up, and discusses the unique position of the test team in preventing failures. |
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Manage and Strengthen Testing[article] Including a testing/QA component on a software project necessarily prolongs the schedule, right? Not so, according to Ross Collard. In this, the first of a three-part series, Collard explains how speed and quality assurance don't have to contradict each other. Read his examples of how testing can actually help reduce the time to market. |
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