Identifying Your Organization's Best Software Pratices
Learn how to assess and leverage your organization's current development processes, establishing a set of best practices for moving forward.
Categories:
Related Pages
- Publications
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Software Value and Risks
- Performance Benchmark Process
- DCG Measurement Roadmap Process Description and Process Flow
- CMMI V 1.3 Appraisals
- CMMI and Agile
- The Business Value of IT (Abstract)
- DCG Measures the Impact of IT
- Improved Agile Implementation with Measurable Benefits
- DCG Works with Corporation to Assess its Agile Program
- FPA to Size and Evaluate the Performance of an IT Vendor
- Functional Sizing Methods Comparison
- The Four Pillars of PMO Performance Tip Sheet
- Engineering Reviews made more effective
- Six Rookie Mistakes in Vendor Management
- The Value Tetrahedron
- Second Opinion on Estimates
- Agile Estimation and Functional Metrics
- Toxic Applications: Defuse your Timebombs
- Turning perfectly good words into numbers
- Extracting Real Value from Process Improvement
- Why can't we estimate better?
- How to Frame Service-level Agreements
- Controlling Software Acquisition Costs
- Using Peer Review Data to Manage Defects
- FP Counting in a Real-Time Environment
- Managing Organizational Change
- Agile and the Declaration of Interdependence
- Customer Satisfaction – Measuring the Rate
- Effective Measures for Project Managers
- Introduction to Function Points
- FP Lite - An Alternative Approach to Sizing
- Principles of Sizing and Estimating Using Function
- Measurement Using IFPUG Function Points
- How World Class Organizations Automate Productivity
- Agile JumpStart: Adapting Agile to Your Organization's Culture for Real Performance Gains
- Functional Metrics: Driving Strategic Change at the Executive Level
- Manage IT like a Business
- Better Estimation, Better Decisions
- The Magical World of Measurement
- Strategies and Tactics for Improved PMO Performance
- KanBan Can Can!
- Agile Estimation Using Functional Metrics
- PMOs are from Mars, Agile is from Venus
- Measurement Roadmap Fundamentals
- Function Point Fundamentals for Executives
- How the PMO can Help Agile
- PMO Survey Finding Results
- Preparing for Portofolio Management Success
- PMO Best Practices Closing the Performance Gap
- Functional Metrics and Early Estimation
- How to Improve On-time Delivery
- Mastering Software Project Management
- Benchmarking: Lower Your Cost of Performance
- Effective Estimation: Tips, Tools and Techniques
- Quick and Early Function Points
- Function Points have Changed!
- Automated Function Point Counting is Useful Now!
- Estimating On-Demand
- Is Automated Function Point Counting Useful Yet?
- Process Improvement in a Multi-Model World
- What Are You Getting For Your Maintenance Dollar?
- Understanding Application Quality Metrics
- Reducing your Software Costs: Method and Plan
- Portfolio and Project Management Best Practices
- Measuring Process Improvement with Software as a Service
- 6 Truths You Must Know About IT Estimation
- Goal-driven Measurement
- Beyond Functions Points 101
- How do you measure the Value of IT?
- A Function Point Primer
- Implementing a Software Measurement Program
- A Short History of the Cost Per Defect Metric
- DCG Establishes Function Point Analysis COE
- Software Project Estimating Management Value Analysis
- What is TMMi – and Why Should You Care?
- Agile and Its Impact on Productivity
- Why Metrics Maturity Matters
- Outsourcing and Risk
- Software Analytics
- Cox Automotive: Rolling Out AgilityHealth Across 100+ Teams
- DCG Assesses a Third Party, Custom .NET Framework
- VistaPrint: Piloting AgilityHealth for a Self-Managed Approach
- Function Points and Software Testing
- TA Archives
- TMMi Assessment: A Baseline for Improved Software Testing
- Scaling Agile When the Models Don’t Fit
- Software Estimation Program Leads to Reduced Project Risk, Increased Delivery Assurance and Improved Resource Management
- Believable Estimates
- Agile is Hard
- Corporate Profile
- Using Lean Principles to Prioritize and Track Financial Value in Software Development
- Shifting Operating Expense to Equity Value
- Scaling Agile Testing Using the TMMi
- Sizing Your Software: A Fast Path Approach
- Agile Risk Management
- Benchmarking As a Tool for Optimising Software Development
- Put Some SNAP in Your Estimation Model
- Agile Estimation with Functional Metrics
- Rescuing a Troubled Project with Agile
- A SMAC in the Face for Enterprise Software Development
- Managing Risk in Agile Development
- Software Vendor Savings
- #NoEstimates
- Scaling Agile When the Models Don't Fit: Presentation
- Let's Talk Value
- Function Point Analysis Overview
- DCG Provides Company With Customized, Flexible Model for Improved Sizing
- DCG and QuantiMetrics
- What is Agile: Characteristics
- More Than 1 Technique for Retrospectives
- Selected Case Studies from QuantiMetrics
- What is Agile: Values and Principles
- Enterprise Mobile Jumpstart
- Agile & SAFe®: What We Offer
- Armed Forces Estimation Program Leads to Improved Delivery for Key Software-Intensive Systems
- Managing your Vendor’s Performance
- A Viable Product for Travel Industry Startup
- Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe™) Fact Sheet
- If Agile is the Answer, What is the Question?
- AgilityHealth Radar: TeamHealth Assessment
- Budgeting, Estimation, Planning, #NoEstimates, and the Agile Planning Onion - They ALL Make Sense
- Software Non-Functional Assessment Process (SNAP) Assessment Practices Manual 2.3
- SAFe® 4.0 Introduction
- Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) Big Picture
- Project Triage Flyer
- Discover The Quality of Your Testing Process
- Agile Storytelling
- Project Triage Description
- Agile in the Equity Capital Industry
- The Impact of Cognitive Biases on Test and Project Teams
- Test-Driven Development and Agile
- Enable Enterprise Agile Throughout the Organization
- 5 Problems that Impact Testing Effectiveness and Efficiency
- Measurement Program for Data-based Decision Making
- Introducing Agile to a PRINCE2 Environment in the UK City Government
- The 5 Dimensions of Agile Team Health
- Finding the Right Service-Level Measure in a Changing Outsourcing Landscape
- DCG Steps in as Temporary Head of Product Management
- DCG Centers of Excellence
- Visualizing the Value of Software
- 'Sizing' Application Maintenance and Support Activities
- Story Points or Function Points
- 6 Steps to Creating an Estimation Center of Excellence
- Estimation COE Results in Improved Vendor Management
- Estimation Center of Excellence
- The Average Size of a Project
- Agile Overview
- Much Ado About Commitment
- ROI for Estimation Center of Excellence
- About DCG Software Value
- Agile Metrics for the Government: Portfolio-Level Analytics
- IT as a Value Center (not a Profit Center or Cost Center)
- DCG Utilizes SNAP to Ensure Consistent Software Performance
- ROI For Project Triage
- Cloud-Enabling Applications: Migrating Enterprise Applications to the Public Cloud
- Agile Governance for Agile Adults
- Benchmarking Guide for Software Development and Maintenance Projects
- How can we get more value out of software development?
- Mergers and Acquisitions Services
- ROI for Agile JumpStart
- The Software Value Management Office (SVMO)
- VVF Data Sheet
- DCG Leads American Vehicle Manufacturer to Successful CMMI Level 3 Appraisal
- Software Asset Risk Management Overview
- Portfolio Software Value Management
- DCG Develops Aggressive Function Point Counting Program
- Software Asset Due Diligence Overview
- Software Asset Maturity Analysis
- Successful Outsourcing: Measuring for Price and Value
- Speaker Sheet - Mike Harris
- Software Asset Integration Management
- PSC QuickCheck Sample Report
- DCG Leverages Measurement Expertise to Establish IT Benchmarking Program Within Global Payment and Expense Management Company
- Maturity Level 3: Close Gaps for Improved Performance
- DCG's TMMi Services
- TMMi: Improve Your Software Testing
- Improve Estimation for Predictability and Reduced Costs
- Tips for Implementing a Quality Model
- Using Automated Function Points in Software ADM Contracts
- Successful Level 3 Maturity Rating
- SNAP Quick Reference Guide
- Template: Contracting for Agile
- Agile and Central Government Software Projects
- Identify Delivery Issues and Make Changes for Improvement
- Estimation Program Leads to Improved Predictability
- Introducing SNAP
- DCG's Function Point Analysis Services
- The Seven Principles of Testing
- Metrics for Outsourced Software Development Contracts
- Using TMMi To Deliver Higher Quality Software
- Agile Project JumpStart Overview
- SNAP Data Collection
- Outcome-Based Management of Outsourced App Dev
- DCG Supports Acquisition Due Diligence Team in Managing Technology Risks for Transaction Success
- DCG Agile Class Modules
- Sizing Audits to Ensure Effective Decision Making
- Our Mission At DCG
- Aligning Agile Program Expectations
- Case Study - Function Point Count and Estimation for Application Upgrade Validation
"It's frustrating that there are so many failed software projects when I know from personal experience that it's possible to do so much better - and we can help."
- Mike Harris, DCG Owner
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Join over 30,000 other subscribers. Subscribe to our newsletter today!