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Available free on the DCG
Website are numerous publications.
Today's spotlight
is entitled, "Are CMM® Program Invest- ments beneficial?
Analyzing Past Studies" by Daniel Galin and Motti
Avrahami. A review of the literature on CMM® program
investments indicates that they improved performance
consistently for seven common software development metrics
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Click here publications to download the full
article...
This article was orginally published in the
IEEE Software magazine, November/ December, 2006 and is
republished here with permission.
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Newsletter Vol. No. 10, October 31,
2007
An interview with an SPI
Warrior – SpaM CAST 10-Seven Deadly Sins of Metrics –Sloth.
The Software Process and Measurement PODCAST
network recently interviewed David Herron, DCG Founder.
You can hear this on the DCG Website. Click PODCAST to go to the podcast archive
section directly.
Here is a brief introduction to the
SPaM CAST #10...
“The Seven Deadly Sins popularized by
Dante have been used as an analogy for a fallen man’s tendency
to sin and as analogy for the ills or risks of many
professions. The analogy fits as well for software metrics;
focusing attention on the behaviors that could sap your
program’s integrity, effectiveness and life span. This paper
looks at a set of deadly sins from the point of view of a
person or group that is creating or managing a metrics
program. The paper will be delivered as several essays on the
Software Process and Measurement podcast (www.spamcast.net).
The Seven Deadly Sins of Metrics
Programs:
Pride – Believing that a single number /
metric is more important than any other factor.
Envy –
Instituting measures that facilitate the insatiable desire for
another team’s people, tools or applications.
Wrath –
Using measures to create friction between groups or
teams.
Sloth – Unwillingness to act or care about the
measures you create.
Greed – Allowing metrics to be used as
a tool to game the system for gain.
Gluttony – Application
of an excess of metrics.
Lust (Extravagance) – Pursuit of
the number rather than the business goal.
You can hear
this on the DCG Website. Click PODCAST to go to the podcast archive
section directly.
Click Here to link to the SPaMCAST
network.
 DCG EVENTS COMING SOON
- DCG speaking on Lean CMMI on November 6th at the TAMPA
BAY, FL SPIN Click Here for details.
- DCG President Mike Harris speaking on November 10th in
King of Prussia, PA at the PMI Tools Conference
- DCG partnering at the CMMI Users Conferences on November
12-16 in Denver CO with MKS. Click Here for details.
- DCG conducting public class in Las Vegas, NV at Business
Driven Software Measurement on November 15-16. Develop and
Improve your Software Measures and Metrics. Register Today!
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December 6 in Orlando, FL. Register Today!
- DCG presenting and teaching at the ICSPI Conference on November 12-16 in
Orlando, FL.
- Tuesday - 11/13 2:45 - 3:45 Traceability: A
Proposal for a Scalable Approach, Agile To Formal,
presented by Thomas M. Cagley Jr, David Consulting
Group
- Friday - 11/16 All Day Tutorial F6:
Implementing an Effective Measurement Program, presented
by Thomas M. Cagley Jr, David Consulting Group
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