The It Measurement Compendium: Estimating And Benchmarking Success With Functional Size Measurement
by Manfred Bundschuh /
2008 / English / PDF
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“As projects get more complicated, managers stop learning from
their - perience. It is important to understand how that happens
and how to change it…. Fallible estimates: In software development,
initial estimates for a project shape the trajectory of decisions
that a manager makes over its life. For ex- ple, estimates of the
productivity of the team members influence decisions about the size
of the team, which in turn affect the team’s actual output. The
trouble is that initial estimates usually turn out to be wrong. ”
(Sengupta, 2008) This book aims directly to increase the awareness
among managers and practitioners that estimation is as important as
the work to be done in so- ware and systems development. You can
manage what you can measure! Readers will find in this book a
collection of lessons learned from the worldwide “metrics
community,” which we have documented and enhanced with our own
experiences in the field of software measurement and estimating.
Our goal is to support our readers to harvest the benefits of
estimating and - prove their software development processes. We
present the 5 ISO/I- acknowledged Functional Sizing Methods with
variants, experiences, counting rules, and case studies – and most
importantly, illustrate through practical - amples how to use
functional size measurement to produce realistic estimates. The
book is written in a practical manner, especially for the busy
practitioner community. It is aimed to be used as a manual and an
assistant for everyday work.
“As projects get more complicated, managers stop learning from
their - perience. It is important to understand how that happens
and how to change it…. Fallible estimates: In software development,
initial estimates for a project shape the trajectory of decisions
that a manager makes over its life. For ex- ple, estimates of the
productivity of the team members influence decisions about the size
of the team, which in turn affect the team’s actual output. The
trouble is that initial estimates usually turn out to be wrong. ”
(Sengupta, 2008) This book aims directly to increase the awareness
among managers and practitioners that estimation is as important as
the work to be done in so- ware and systems development. You can
manage what you can measure! Readers will find in this book a
collection of lessons learned from the worldwide “metrics
community,” which we have documented and enhanced with our own
experiences in the field of software measurement and estimating.
Our goal is to support our readers to harvest the benefits of
estimating and - prove their software development processes. We
present the 5 ISO/I- acknowledged Functional Sizing Methods with
variants, experiences, counting rules, and case studies – and most
importantly, illustrate through practical - amples how to use
functional size measurement to produce realistic estimates. The
book is written in a practical manner, especially for the busy
practitioner community. It is aimed to be used as a manual and an
assistant for everyday work.