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SEI Report

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...


Look at DCG’s new Estimation Seminar Offering, 3 day workshop...

Sept Calendar of DCG Events

Date/Time

DCG at ISMA Conference, San Paolo,  Brazil www.ifpug.org 9/13-15/2010

DCG SDLC Webinar: Function Point Fundamentals: DCG University Course Preview Register Now,  Tony Timbol

9/14/2010, 9:00 am

DCG SDLC Webinar: Trust but verify: How to use one-off estimating to improve on-time delivery from your teams, Register Now,  David Herron

9/21/2010, 9:00 am

DCG CAI Webinar: Functional Metrics and Agile Estimation, Revisited – CMMI Compliance (Tom Cagley)
http://solutions.compaid.com/forms/WebinarA20100923?ProcessType=PreReg

9/23/2010, 1:00 am

DCG Value Webinar:  Measurement Roadmap Fundamentals: How to use fewer measurements more effectively! Register Now,  Tom Cagley

10/5/2010, 9:00 am

 

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...

Click here for the full Magazine...

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....

Contact us to receive a full copy...

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

http://www.easterntechnologycouncil.org/Click to see DCG membership

DCG is a member of

http://www.dasma.org/

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.

 

DCG Software Best Practices Conferences 2010
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