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Upcoming Calendar of DCG Events	Date/Time
DCG Webinar: Can we get along? Agile is from Venus, PMOs from Mars – Register Now, Tom Cagley	2/14/2012, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm
DCG Expert Q&A Lunch Time Briefing: DCG Trusted Advisor Executive Briefing--does your CIO qualify? – Register Now, Mike Harris	2/16/2012, 12:30 pm
DCG Webinar:  The Future of CMMI and its impact on Business (includes a preview of SEPG 2012 in New Mexico) – Register Now, Pat Eglin	2/23/2012, 1:30 pm-2:30 pm
DCG's Mike Harris CEO Roundtable Interview @ NBC10 for CEO Intronet, Philadelphia, PA	2/2, 2012
DCG's Mike Harris Interview on Executive Leaders Radio: Philadelphia, PA	Broadcast dates below
WNJC/1360 on Sat 2/18/2012 @ 4pm WBCB/1490 on Sun 2/19 @ 9am WFYL/1180 on Mon 2/20 @ 11am
DCG @ SEPG 2012: DCG Exhibiting, Albuquerque, NM	3/12-15, 2012
DCG @ IT FMA 2012: Mike Harris presenting on IT Capability Management Framework, San Francisco, CA	4/20, 2012
DCG @ QUEST 2012: DCG will be at Quest Conference with Tom Cagley, David Herron both as featured Speakers	4/30-5/4, 2012

Read Mike Harris HotSeat Profile in SmartCEO Magazine...

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See Mike Harris November 2010 Article on IT Performance Improvement...

Performance Effects of Measurement and Analysis: Perspectives from CMMI High Maturity Organizations and Appraisers. This report describes results from two recent surveys conducted by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to collect information about the measurement and analysis activities of software systems development organizations. Click to read more...

David Herron's Article on "Identifying your Software Development Best Practices" was published  on March 30 in the Software Tech News (STN)  Vol 13, No. 1, “Software Quality, Reliability, and Error Prediction”, in both print and on-line formats. Click here to read the article...

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DCG On-line Store: CMMI Documents (individual documents, single process areas or multiple process areas available for instant download)

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 is a member of

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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