Mike Barker

Proposal of a Complete Life Cycle In-Process Measurement Model Based on Evaluation of an In-Process Measurement Experiment Using a Standardized Requirement Definition Process

This poster reports on a solution to ERP project cost estimation and on results from its first experimental application.

Accountability and Traceability in Global Software Engineering (ATGSE2007)

An Overview of the new workshop on Accountability and Traceability in Global Software Engineering (ATGSE2007) will be introduced here.

An empirical study of development visualization for procurement by in-process measurement during integration and testing

This study describes a new method of development visualization along with empirical evidence of its usefulness. Typically, development activities such as program design, programming, and unit testing are not disclosed to the procurement organization (project owner). However, during integration and testing, various issues require collaboration between the procurement organization and developers. When this occurs, it is important to make the development process visible. Recent reports indicate the usefulness for project management of various in-process project measurements which allow visualization of the formerly invisible software project progress [1–6]. Based on this background, the authors investigated a case study where in-process measurement during the integration and test phase helped to make development issues visible. In this study, data obtained from the integration and testing phase were compared to a development process model. This model was based on the authors experience, and provided a vivid picture of the development activity. By applying in-process measurements in collaboration during the integration test phase, the development activity was clearly visualized, and the procurement organization understood problems.

An Empirical Study of Process and Product Metrics Based on In-process Measurements of a Standardized Requirements Definition Phase

This paper focuses on in-process project measurement in the requirements definition phase based on progress with standardization of this phase. The authors have verified the utility of in-process project measurement in a real mid-scale multi-vendor distributed project. This trial was successful, but limited to a part of the total development process. The project measurement target was limited to later processes such as the coding and testing phases where the output products were easy to acquire. The requirements definition phase where process and product were not standardized was difficult to measure. However, a newly provided governmental process guideline standardizes the process and product for the requirements definition phase, and the authors had an opportunity to measure such a requirements definition effort. This paper presents an empirical study of in-process project measurement in the standardized requirements definition phase, verifies the usefulness of this measurement for project management, and reveals the possibility of creating a new software metrics field using these measurements.