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Improving Software Performance Newsletter
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April 2010
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 Greetings from
DCG,
Directly below is an invitation to participate in DCG's Performance
Measurement Survey. Participate and gain access to industry opinions
on the good, the bad and the ugly on performance measurement.
"Identifying your Software Development Best
Practices," an article by David Herron that recently appeared in
the SoftwareTech News. Read article.
Read about DCG's expansion
into the Spanish-speaking market.
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DCG
Survey
DCG is conducting a series of
industry wide surveys targeting specific practices relating to
software development and performance. They are designed to gather
relevant information and to provide participants with interesting and
valuable insights on topics ranging from software project estimation
to software process improvement. Participants will have access to the
information as soon as we aggregate, analyze and publish it.
Our first
survey is on Performance Measurement. Please click on the link below
to take this survey. In addition, we welcome suggestions from
you regarding any particular topics you would be interested in.
Thank you for your participation
in our survey. We appreciate your valuable feedback.
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Thur April 29, 9:00 - 10:00 am EST. This 30 minute infomercial provides a preview of the
DCG 3 day Estimation and Sizing Workshop. Read more and register.
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NEWS
April 15, 2010, DCG David Herron at the New Jersey ASQ Spring Quality
Conference speaking on Software Quality Best Practices. Read
more.
April 19 - 23, 2010, DCG's Mike Harris at the IEEE/IFIP Network
Operations and Management Symposium in Osaka, Japan speaking as a
panelist on "Managing with ITIL: The role of creativiity
in a framework-driven environment." Read
more.
April 19 - 23, 2010, DCG's Tom Cagley at the QUEST Conference in
Dallas, TX presenting "Process Improvement in a Multi-Model
World." Read
more. Conference
April 21, 2010, DCG's David Herron speaking at the New Jersey SPIN
Meeting on "Identifying Software Quality Best Practices."
Read
more.
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method to use and when?
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BUILDING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Improve your Software
Development Capabilities and Performance
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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.
BEST PRACTICES IS A COMMONLY-USED TERM THAT IS OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD.
THIS ARTICLE GIVES SOME USEFUL INFORMATION ON DEVELOPING BEST
PRACTICES, IN SOFTWARE QUALITY AND RELATED AREAS.
We often read articles about software development best
practices. Sometimes these articles entertain us with first-person
stories about how a particular development practice or a software
development tool helped to save the day on an important product
release or systems implementation. Other times, these best practices
articles are informing the reader about some tool, technique or
process that warrants a 'best practices' label because it can improve
your organizations productivity and quality. But what is truly a
software development best practice? Read
article.
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GOVERNMENT BY IT
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Federal IT
Dashboard
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 The
Federal Government spends a lot of money. A good portion of it is
spent on Information Technology to improve quality of services to
constituents. While the Feds make a nice target for people to
complain when thing goes wrong (and they do), the fact of the matter
is that much of America works, including much of the Federal
Government.
Yes, there are challenges, and there always will be when
you consider you have about 300 million free people pursuing life,
liberty and a little happiness all at the same time. You can't make
everyone happy! However, for a firm like DCG that advocates
metrics and measurement, it is great to see that the Feds have made a
great first attempt at IT Budget Dashboarding.
We are happy to see this kind of innovation being attempted at the
Federal level. The website is still in Beta, so keep that in mind as
you review and play with it.
DCG's work on improving SDLC performance for our clients
in the civilian agencies and the DOD has given us a front row seat to
see first hand the hard work and level of committment expressed by
many in the Federal workforce. This Beta site is a good example of
that, in our view. - Editors
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SPECTRUM
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 DCG
Expands into the Spanish-Speaking Market
Evalúa CPS is a leader in software measurement
and software process improvement. Located in Madrid,
Spain, DCG is partnering with Evalúa CPS to provide training and
consulting to DCG's Spanish-Speaking clients.
The head of the new partnership in Spain is Dr. Juan
J. Cuadrado-Gallego who is the Profesor Titular de Universidad and
the Director of the PhD degree in Computer Science at the Computer
Science Department of the Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
He is also Professor at the École de Technologie Supérieure,
Université du Québec, Montreal, Canada. He has been teaching in the
Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany, in 2008 and 2009
and in the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italy, in 2004.
Previously Dr. Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego was Profesor at the
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain between 2005 and
2010, Universidad de Valladolid, Segovia, Spain in 2004, and at
the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, between 1997 and 2004.
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