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Applied Statistics
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techniques to solve specific software development and maintenance problems.
You don't need a mathematical background: Katrina Maxwell
presents an easy-to-follow methodology and detailed case studies that show
you exactly how to assess productivity, time to market, development effort
and maintenance cost drivers.
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Benchmarking Articles to Download
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Collecting Data for
Comparability:
Benchmarking Software
Development Productivity
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K.
Maxwell
IEEE Software
September-October 2001
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Abstract
Whether you are benchmarking
an organization, or simply a project, it all boils down to one thing –
data. Do you have the necessary data in your company? Is the data valid
and comparable? Can you get access to data from other organizations? In
order to help you answer these questions and avoid some common serious
mistakes in the benchmarking process, I've summarized my practical real-life
experiences with software project data collection and benchmarking efforts
in these guidelines.
Full paper available
[download pdf file]
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Benchmarking Software
Development Productivity
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K.
Maxwell and P. Forselius
IEEE Software
January-February 2000
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Abstract
In this paper, the results of
a statistical analysis of the productivity variation of a unique database
which consists of 208 Business Software Projects from 26 companies in Finland
are presented. Productivity is measured in function points per hour.
As analysis of the entire
database showed that much of the productivity variation could be explained
by the business sector of the customer company, differences in the factors
explaining productivity in the banking, insurance, manufacturing, wholesale/retail
and public administration sectors are examined in more detail.
Productivity equations that
are useful both for estimating expected productivity at the start of a
new project, as well as providing a benchmark for a completed project are
given for each business sector. (n.b. The free calculator on this website
is based on these equations).
Full paper available
[download pdf file]