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Measure. Improve. Deliver.
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If you could change one thing about your software
development, what would it be?
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DCG Webinars
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Advanced Function
Point Training Overview
Thurs June 9, 9:00 -
10:00 am EDT .
Advanced Function Point training allows you to size and
measure not just traditional application but all kinds of
3GL, 4GL, Object oriented and advanced applications. Function
points are truly platform independent. This brief overview of
DCG's Advanced Function Point class is provided by Sheila
Dennis, Project Delivery Director, of DCG's Pueblo Counting
Facility. Register now.
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How the PMO can
support Agile Success
Thur
June 23, 2:30 - 3:30 pm EDT .
A question that seems to be circulating within IT
organizations these days is whether or not the Project
Management Office (PMO) roles and responsibilities are
adaptable to supporting agile projects. Do the traditional
PMO practices fit the agile models such as scrum or
feature-driven development? This webinar and companion white
paper will serve to advance that discussion by presenting
observations from recent client experiences as well as
sharing some of the current thinking on the subject of PMO's
and their role in supporting agile. Register now.
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Functional Metrics
and Agile Estimation, Revisited - CMMI Compliance
Wed
June 29, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT .
Estimation is a lightning rod for conflicts between agile,
lean and other process driven methodologies. However times
are changing, agile is maturing and new lean methodologies
such as Kanban are emerging. DCG's Tom Cagley will
explain how functional metrics allow you incorporate
additional process discipline into the estimation processes
typically used by agile and lean teams. Register now.
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Agile Estimation
Using Functional Metrics
Thur
July 14, 9:00 - 10:00 am . This 35-45
minute webinar, presented by Tom Cagley, outlines a path for
incorporating the best practices of robust software sizing
(functional metrics) with the collaborative techniques
championed by the agile community in a manner that increase
standardization without ignoring the principals of the Agile
Manifesto. Looking at two case studies of Agile enabled
software organizations that use functional metrics, Tom
outlines how a simple words into numbers approach can produce
the statistical objectivity needed estimate level of effort
reliably and help your Agile date commitments to stick.
Register now.
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DCG Calendar
Upcoming webinars, conferences and events
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Visit YouTube for the latest video testimonials
from DCG clients.
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Connect with DCG Process Improvement
Specialists at SEPG Europe in Dublin for a conversation on
your process, lean and CMMI challenges and frustrations.
Visit SEI"s SEPG website for
more information.
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DCG will be
presenting, "Harris Hierarchy of Software Development
Support Needs at the SERP 2011 Conference in Las Vegas.
Read more.
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Disposable
Innovation
"This
month, DCG expert Mike Harris, talks about the speed of today's
marketplace placing a premium on organizations that fast-track
innovation overcoming internal inertia. After all an innovative
product or service late to market that looks redundant is not
innovative at all..."
A
recent "Secret CIO" column in the industry Journal
Information week (written under the pseudonym John McGreavy) is
worth a read for anyone trying to be innovative in a large
organization. One paragraph in particular resonated with
my experiences,
"The rate of change within
our business has increased. We're in an era of disposable
innovation. Innovate, and get on with it. If an
idea fails, move on to the next one. We need to institute
changes more quickly. We don't have the time we used to
have to build consensus."
Just last week, I was working with
a client who sees the need to make a number of changes.
The first one is in place in less than 2 months after a crash
implementation. It's fair to say that it has the tiniest
of beachheads in the organization. The next urgent
challenge is just around the corner but what should the
priority be - getting that first change institutionalized or
grabbing attention for the next one? Of course, they must
both be done in parallel but key stakeholders are already
resisting the change not (I don't think) because they are
change averse but rather because they (perhaps rightly) worry
about loss of control with rapid change. Read
more ..
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Here
and Now or The Value Tetrahedron
By
Alan Cameron, David Consulting Group Ltd.
This paper introduces the concept of the Value Tetrahedron, one
which has been developed for business use of software
metrics. The Value Tetrahedron enables a business to
understand the balance between technical debt and software
development performance based on software metrics where
technical debt is the inherent indebtedness of an organization
due to deviations from technical and architectural standards
and uncleared known and unknown defects. The concept of
the Value Tetrahedron allows organisation to make informed
decisions about the level of technical debt that it is willing
to carry within its systems and portfolio.
To download the full copy of the white paper visit the DCG publications page...
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