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  Mon, 06 Sep 2010

  The Business Value of IT
  posted by Mike Harris

  SEI Report: Correlation between Metrics use and CMMI Appraisals

  The SEI have just published a new report by Goldenson and McCurley. The report shows an interesting correlation between what high maturity organizations themselves report about uses of measurement and what appraisal results say about the organizations. > More
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  Thu, 31 Dec 2009

  Process/Measurement
  posted by Tom Cagley

  Best Practices, A Force Of Good Or Evil?

  Best Practices, A Force Of Good Or Evil? Thomas M. Cagley Jr. To paraphrase Edwin Starr, “Best Practices, huh, what are they good for? Absolutely nothing, Say it again . . .” Every organization wants to use best practices. How many organizations do you know that would stand up and say we want to use average processes?. [...] > More
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  Fri, 16 Apr 2010

  KSS
  posted by David Herron

  Estimation Experiences #3 Setting Expectations

  I have found that a major key to successfully and effectively estimating software projects is to make sure that expectations are properly set. And what should those expectations be? Depending upon where and when in the lifecycle you estimate and how much information you have available to you at the time of the estimate, it [...] > More