An Updated Software Almanac.

The article focuses on the business of software as examined in the 2014 Research Edition of the "QSM Software Almanac" published by Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Topics discussed include the core metrics that provide insights into the health of software projects and organizations, some ind...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 7; pp. 32 - 35
Autor principal:	Armour, Phillip G.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2015
Materias:	Qsm Software Almanac (Book) Quantitative Software Management Inc. Computer software industry Computer software development Computer programming management Computer software quality control Computer science Computer industry
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Sumario:	The article focuses on the business of software as examined in the 2014 Research Edition of the "QSM Software Almanac" published by Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Topics discussed include the core metrics that provide insights into the health of software projects and organizations, some industry trends over time such as project duration, the decline of project effort along with the delivered size of systems, and the median project team size, and some useful approaches for the measurement of projects as described in the Almanac.