Have you ever had a gut feeling a software development project is about to go off course but no way to validate (or invalidate) that feeling? Has your team ever been burned by an inaccurate estimate or unreasonable expectation? Have you ever wished you could peer a bit into the …
Information radiators are all the rage, we measure things, collect metrics and set targets as never before. But are we getting the full benefit? or are we inadvertently stifling progress, tampering and inviting dysfunction? Let’s take a hard look at our love for measurement, how it can help us make …
Measurement, metrics, and statistics can be powerful tools for understanding the software development world. Measures and metrics abound in software engineering, QA, and especially testing. Coming up with numbers is the easiest part. Making some computations using the numbers is straightforward. Getting meaningful, useful metrics is a whole different story. …
The average software company spends 2-3 times as much on each software project as best-in-class companies spend to deliver similar capabilities. The average organizations wastes 25% or more of its software budget on projects that are ultimately cancelled.
Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu. Video producer
