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Michelin and DCG at Paris Conference: Reducing Software Costs---CIO Insight Article...

DCG's partnership with CAST announcement released on Reuters News Network...

DCG University Survey 2009 Released....(8/7/09)

In July 2009, DCG University (on behalf of the David Consulting Group – “DCG”) conducted an IT metrics and performance improvement practitioners survey to get a temperature check on the state of software development measurement activities in the current economic climate.  This short paper summarizes our interpretation of the 67 responses received. On this year’s data, there is strong evidence that our respondent organizations care about and monitor actual project costs against estimates.  There is also strong evidence that money is being wasted through weak controls over application code quality.  Click to download for an Executive Summary....

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Read the Mike Harris interview on the Business Edge Network....

DCG's Tom Cagley's latest SPaMCAST 54 Esther Derby, Retrospectives, Agile is?

Note: Tom's SPAMCAST is used as reference material in the Software Project Management Class at University of Aberdeen

DCG supports the common interests of the Toronto area technology community.  DCG will be participating in many Toronto SPIN events.

DCG is a member of the Eastern Technology Council

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German-speaking user group for software metrics and expense estimation e. V.

DCG offers all DASMA members free access to the DCG Industry Data base. Contact Manfred Bundschuh for more information.

Unser Firmenmitglied DCG (david consultinggroup) bietet DASMA Mitgliedern den freien Zugang zur DCG Industry Data Benchmarking Datenbank an. Einzelheiten finden Sie im geschützten Mitgliederbereich.

Order now... "THE BUSINESS VALUE OF IT:  Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance, and Measuring Results by DCG's Mike Harris and David Herron with Stasia Iwanicki.

The authors share their real-world experiences to explain how you can demonstrate IT's value, and potentially find extra value you didn't know your IT organization creates.  They also show how to apply risk management to process improvement and avoid unintended consequences of process improvement programs.

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