Measurement and Analysis
Blog Posts
The Seven Virtues of Reconciling Agile and Earned Value Management (EVM)
This post discusses the interactions between Agile software development and earned value management (EVM).
• By Stephen Wilson, Patrick R. Place, Keith Korzec
In Agile
How Can Causal Learning Help to Control Costs?
This post describes how to apply causal-modeling algorithms and tools to project data to identify, measure, and test causality.
• By Michael D. Konrad
In Software Engineering Research and Development
Actionable Data from the DevSecOps Pipeline
In this blog post, we explore decisions that program managers make and information they need to confidently make decisions with data from DevSecOps pipelines.
• By Bill Nichols, Julie B. Cohen
In DevSecOps
Saying Why: Persona-Based Metrics With User Stories
This post discusses how to reframe metrics as user stories to improve their relevance and utility.
• By Will Hayes, Patrick R. Place
In Agile
Challenges in Making the Transition to Digital Engineering
Challenges observed in making the transition from traditional development practices to digital engineering (DE).
• By Bill Nichols
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 R. Place, Keith Korzec
In Agile
The Current State of DevSecOps Metrics
DevSecOps practices yield useful, valuable information about software performance that is likely to lead to innovations in software engineering metrics.
• By Bill Nichols
In DevSecOps
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