Measurement and Analysis
Blog Posts
Agile Metrics: Assessing Progress to Plans
The role of metrics in a government program’s assessment of progress in an iterative, incremental delivery of a system.
• By Will Hayes, Patrick Place, Keith Korzec
In Agile
Stop Wasting Time: Manage Time as the Limiting Resource
Lost time is never found. - Ben Franklin. Driven by a competitive marketplace, software developers and programmers are often pressured to adhere to unrealistically aggressive schedules....
• By Bill Nichols
Programmer Moneyball: Challenging the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity
A pervasive belief in the field of software engineering is that some programmers are much, much better than others (the times-10, or x10, programmer), and that the skills...
• By Bill Nichols
In Enterprise Risk and Resilience Management
Selecting Measurement Data for Software Assurance Practices
Measuring the software assurance of a product as it is developed and delivered to function in a specific system context involves assembling carefully chosen metrics....
• By Carol Woody
How to Identify Key Causal Factors That Influence Software Costs: A Case Study
DoD programs continue to experience cost overruns; the inadequacies of cost estimation were cited by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) as one of the top problem areas....
• By Bill Nichols
Heartbleed and Goto Fail: Two Case Studies for Predicting Software Assurance Using Quality and Reliability Measures
Mitre's Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors is a list that details quality problems, as well as security problems. This list aims to help software developers "prevent the kinds of …
• By Carol Woody, Bill Nichols
Improving the Reliability of Expert Opinion within Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation
As part of our research related to early acquisition lifecycle cost estimation for the Department of Defense (DoD), my colleagues in the SEI's Software Engineering Measurement & Analysis initiative and …
• By Robert Stoddard
Quantifying Uncertainty in Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation (QUELCE): An Update
By law, major defense acquisition programs are now required to prepare cost estimates earlier in the acquisition lifecycle, including pre-Milestone A, well before concrete technical information is available on the …
• By David Zubrow
High Maturity Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis
The SEI has been actively engaged in defining and studying high maturity software engineering practices for several years. Levels 4 and 5 of the CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) are …
• By David Zubrow
Using Predictive Modeling in Software Development: Results from the Field
As with any new initiative or tool requiring significant investment, the business value of statistically-based predictive models must be demonstrated before they will see widespread adoption. The SEI Software Engineering …
• By Dennis Goldenson
