Software Metrics

a
two day course

If you are not yet having success with software metrics,
start with this course!

Why Should You Take This Course?

• You want to be able to relate software metrics to the business
• You want to understand the requirements for metrics
• You need to introduce software metrics to your organization
• You want to implement metrics in your organization
• You need a practical approach to using metrics
• You want to understand the principles of metrics as part of software development and maintenance
• You want to be able to identify and measure improvements

What Will You Learn?

• How to efficiently and effectively apply metrics to help your business
• How to measure what is important to your business
• How to use data and practical metrics to make business tradeoffs
• How to plan, track, and measure
  • Projects
  • Processes
  • Changes
  • Quality
  • Costs
  • Time
  • and more
• How to establish baselines for measuring and evaluating change
• Why metrics are essential in today's software projects
• Relationships of metrics to each level in the SEI's CMM®
• Relationships of metrics to ISO 9001
• Barriers to metrics and how to overcome them

Synopsis

The Software Technology Transition (STT) course on Software Metrics allows you to better understand your software development environment and helps you identify how to get and use more detailed information about your projects. The metrics can also be used to quantify business alternatives and to make trade-offs based on data.

If you understand the costs and time associated with finding and fixing defects at the different phases of your life cycle you can then start to use that data to fine tune your process to reduce your costs and shorten your time to market. The software metrics scope includes data about costs, resources, quality, and time.

Metrics are key to being able to predict, manage, and control your projects.  With good metrics you will be able to establish reliable and aggressive project plans.

While gathering and using the software metrics may appear complicated, it is really quite simple if the organization understands what needs to be done and implements an effective, staged approach to software metrics. One of the keys to a good software metrics program is to understand what has worked well for others and to adapt it to your environment and software domain.

Metrics enable you to understand where you are and where you want to be in your business. Metrics enable you to better understand your quality, costs, time to market, and customer satisfaction.

When we work with clients on software metrics we help them establish a baseline as well as an implementation plan so that they can see where they are and where they are going.

Metrics help you the most when they are kept simple and the data is used by practitioners and managers.

Who Should Attend?

• Engineers and managers on software projects
  • Managers: to have more insight into their software activities and projects
  • Practitioners: to start using the data to help minimize rework and be as productive as possible
• SQA practitioners
• SEPG practitioners

Day 1:

• Introduction to metrics
• Confidentiality and other concerns
• Examples from industry
• Relating metrics to business
• Accuracy vs precision
• Product and process data
• Basic software metrics
• Planning and metrics
• Quality metrics

Day 2:

• Inspection metrics
• Test metrics
• Statistical techniques
• Review what has helped other organizations succeed with metrics
• Case study

During both days the students will be actively engaged in discussions and exercises. Practical examples and exercises will focus on how the students can collect and use metrics after the class.

You can start a software metrics program
at any maturity level!

Student Materials:

Each student will receive a complete set of the slides used by the instructor.

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