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2004 U. S. Government's Top 5 Programs
( PDF 249KB)
The annual Top 5 contest to award quality software development
has a new name, and its scope has expanded to include total
program performance. |
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Project Management |
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Software Project Management Practices: Failure Versus Success
( PDF 493KB)
by Capers Jones
This author's analysis of successful large software projects versus those
that ran late, were over budget, or cancelled reveals six common
problems associated with project management rather than with technical
personnel. |
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Catastrophe Disentanglement: Getting Software Projects Back on Track
( PDF 409KB)
by E.M. Bennatan
Most software calamities were troubled projects that went on for too
long. This article proposes a 10-step process to effectively deal with an
out-of-control project and get it back on track. |
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Understanding Causal Systems
( PDF 680KB)
by David N. Card
This article describes a model and a supporting set of terms that facilitate
reasoning about and planning for causal systems and designing process
experiments, all of which is based on practical experience. |
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Software Engineering Technology |
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Requirements Engineering So Things Don't Get Ugly
( PDF 448KB)
by Deb Jacobs
Even if you know exactly what you want, requirements engineering is a
tough task that requires understanding different points of view. This
author discusses how processes in the Capability Maturity Model
Integration provide a good foundation to accomplish this. |
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Open Forum |
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Independent Estimates at Completion — Another Method
( PDF 382KB)
by Walt Lipke
This article reviews the most frequently used Earned Value Management
formulas for calculating the Independent Estimate at Completion
(IEAC), and proposes an alternative method of calculating IEAC that
shows promise. |
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