Chapter 4 - Software Process and Project Metrics Overview • Software process and project metrics are quantitative measures that enable software engineers to gain insight into the efficiency of the software process and the projects conducted using the process framework. In software project management‚ we are primarily concerned with productivity and quality metrics. The four reasons for measuring software processes‚ products‚ and resources (to characterize‚ to evaluate‚ to predict‚ and to improve)
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Marketing Metrics At the beginning of The Balanced Scorecard‚ a book on the new generation of performance metrics‚ authors-Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton present an analogy to drive home their case. They ask you to imagine entering an airline jet cockpit‚ and in front of the pilot‚ you see just one gauge. You ask the pilot‚ "What’s that gauge measure?" "Altitude"‚ you’re told. "What about the other gauges?" "We won’t be using them this flight. I’m just focusing on altitude." "How about
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as not waste this planet’s resources. Let’s look at ways to help manager design a process for achieving this goal. A process or transformation strategy is an organization’s approach to transforming resources into goods and services. The objective of a process strategy is to build a production process that meets customer requirements and product specifications within cost and other managerial constraints. The process selected will have a long term effect on efficiency and flexibility of production
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Advertisements : How do they persuade us ? Advertisements are part and parcel of our lives. Perhaps‚ they are one of the most decisive and‚ at the same time‚ imperceptible factors moulding and channelling our “purchasing habits‚” so to speak. On the face of it‚ advertisements promote products and services; they create demand by dint of inducing and increasing consumption. Yet‚ the ways in which they convey their messages have a profound effect on all aspects of our lives: our happiness‚ our culture
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How far does Fitzgerald allow us to sympathise with Gatsby? Throughout the novel Fitzgerald allows our sympathy to increase as Gatsby’s dream of Daisy falls apart. I will be looking at and analysing the techniques used by Fitzgerald to allow us to sympathise with Gatsby. Even from the very beginning of the book on pg56‚ the reader begins to sympathise with Gatsby when he is described as isolated in society: “...with complete isolation the figure of the host‚ who stood on the porch‚ his hand up
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How Do You Process and Learn Information? There are “effective strategies for dealing with information overload based on over 100 years of research on learning‚ memory and‚ more recently‚ information processing”. (Rollins & Zahm‚2006) Environment information is received‚ processed and then stored by a series of processing systems. Researchers goal ’s is to determine the processes and structures that allows cognitive performance and how to improve it. These processing systems interpret information
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We see some features of the garbage can model in the decision making process in the Cuban missile crisis‚ like the appearance and the role the ABC reporter played in the crisis. This reporter is contacted by the Soviets and works as a communication channel between the USA en the Soviet. Normally this reporter wasn’t involved in the decision-making process so this shows that there is an aspect of luck in the decision-making process‚ and that decision-makers come and go randomly (although he isn’t really
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The process of operations strategy – substitutes for strategy? (Week 9) Lecture aims This lecture is a little different from the other lectures in the book. It deals with a number of ‘new’ approaches to the management of operations that are often seen as operations strategies‚ but are not actually strategies in themselves. Six of the more important ‘new’ approaches are treated in this lecture‚ namely‚ Total Quality Management‚ lean operations‚ Business Process Reengineering‚ Enterprise Resource
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Software Metric Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences‚ there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development. The goal is obtaining objective‚ reproducible and quantifiable measurements‚ which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning‚ cost estimation‚ quality assurance testing
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. Performance Metrics: purpose What are the ways you can measure how successful your Six Sigma project has been in improving quality or decreasing the number of defects? Before we go into the metrics and definitions‚ let’s say what “defects” and “defective” mean. Something has a defect if the result or outcome of a process is not what is expected. Something went wrong. The product may still be usable: a car with chipped paint can still be driven. So some engineers use “defective” to mean a product
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