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In
this issue, change and challenge...
In this issue: Function points, an industry standard
metric, changes significantly in 2010. DCG's Sheila Dennis
discusses the key differences that MAY affect your organization
moving forward.
Is schedule supreme in the software development world?
Spectrum discusses the challenge of changing a schedule driven
corporate culture.
Plus see January's calendar of events and upcoming webinars...
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Agile Estimation using Functional Metrics: Agility and
Discipline
Tues Jan 12, 9:00 am EST
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.
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Data Driven IV&V Quality Assurance - Transform
Peer Reviews with Science Fact not Fiction
Thur Jan 21,
9:00 am EST. DCG and
CAST Software will show you how to produce a PEER REVIEW MAP of your
application to transform your peer review process and get everyone
talking on the same page and moving in the same direction. And you do
not have to buy any software at all to improve your Peer Review
productivity. Read
more and Register Now.
This presentation and an accompanying paper will be
available to all attendees.
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CMMI
for Small Business--What you need to know for 2010
Thur Jan 28,
9:00 am EST. We will show
you how you can quickly and economically achieve the necessary CMMI
maturity level with our newly designed CMMI for Small Businesses
program. Included in this session will be a review of the CMMI
compliant artifacts, tools and techniques we provide to help you jump
start your CMMI initiative. Read
more and register Now.
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BUILDING SOFTWARE
Improve your software development
capabilities and performance
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 Function Points have changed! By Sheila Dennis
IFPUG
4.2 and IFPUG 4.3 are different... What does it mean to you?
There
are two facets of the CPM v 4.3 that become evident when one studies
the changes from 4.2: (1) The structure and wording of the CPM have
changed significantly, however (2) The counting process, and the
ensuing results, have not changed significantly. Specifically,
CPM 4.2 was revised into 4.3 to further clarify the existing rules,
delete redundancies, be more succinct and less ambiguous, provide
more examples and clarification, and to align with the ISO standards.
The restructure of the 4.2 CPM (4 parts) into the 4.3 version (5
parts) resulted in a publication which is now 100% ISO
compliant. A full description of the changes is available
is Sheila's article on the DCG website in two locations in Publications and Solutions .
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DCG SPECTRUM
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 Schedule is everything, cost
and quality are nothing - Anonymous
The
Dilbert Cartoons mined a rich vein of technology humor with
penetrating corporate social commentary highlighting the irrational
behavior of logically minded people. Like all good satirical humor,
truth was embedded throughout the set-up and punch line.
Copyright United Features Syndicate...
While many would recoil at the absolutist nature of the anonymous
quote, for many the experience of software development is a constant
battle between these three values or dimensions. Schedule often wins
because cost and quality is perceived as more flexible versus an
inflexible ship date.
Of course the flaw in the logic is that ship dates are arbitrary set
by corporate leaders and are invested "emotionally" with
value that is defined by the leadership culture. To change the loaded
"ship date" value means to change the corporate culture
around what that means. Culture is the key.
Changing your corporate culture to do more than just survive but
thrive means making the hard choices to self-correct or get outside
help or do both. All corporate cultures of viable businesses work.
They operate, produce, sell, make money and survive. Those that do
not either die a slow death or a quick one depending on the
marketplace.
 But changing a corporate culture
means changing people, what drives them and the complex dynamics
between them. It is not easy and business history is littered with
dramatic lessons. Taking twelve years (yes years) to produce a sequel
that never shipped cannot seem to be something any rational,
logical software development team would be involved with. Yet it
happened. The story of the death
of the Duke Nukem Franchise is a software
development horror story that all software development leaders can
learn from after they stop cringing. - Editors
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1
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