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SBO offers FREE first-order benchmarking reports online
The Software Benchmarking Organization launches a new service offering FREE first-order benchmarking studies online . Using this service software development companies can benchmark the performance of a given project against data specific to their application domain. The required inputs for the report are the product size, duration, required effort and main programming language used during development. Reports are generated automatically. They can be anonymous or customized with project names and e-mailed as PDF formatted documents to a specific address.
SBO organizes three new workshops
The Software Benchmarking Organization will give three workshops about software benchmarking using the key performance indicators (KPI) set that has been developed within the organization.
- Workshop at Synspace at November 26th, 2009 in Zurich;
- Workshop at Sioux at January 12th, 2010 in Eindhoven;
SBO conducting benchmark studies
From October 2009 on, the Software Benchmarking Organization plans to conduct a series of benchmarking studies in the West-European software industry with the following objectives:
- Assess performance using a best practice set of KPIs;
- Benchmark results with other study participants and industry values (average, best-in-class).
Each participating company should make available its data for 1-3 projects. The data will be analyzed and the results benchmarked against industry values (average, best-in-class). The study will include an on-line visit with a detailed report as outcome. This can serve as the basis for (process) improvement efforts. The overall (anonymized) results will be made available as well to contributing organizations. Optionally, results will be published at conferences and/or journals. Organizations that are interested to join this study are invited to contact us. For more information, look here.
"Within limited budget and time Secure-AG has audited a major FEI software project and revealed some interesting metrics for us. The audit has given us a nice baseline for comparing ourselves with industry peers and with ourselves in the future in time. We were specifically impressed with the graphs and information that the SolidSource tooling provided"
"Since 2009, we have adopted the best practice KPI set as part of our
continuous improvement program. At this stage, most KPIs have been
implemented. Using the set for project monitoring has helped us to
improve the required transparency in our software projects and supports
us to make informed decisions in a pro-active way.
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"The best practice KPI set turns out to be an excellent instrument to measure real software capability. It enables our customers to baseline and benchmark their current performance and allows us to derive a solid business case for adopting our ASD technology. The supporting workshops have been very well received by both our consultants and our customers."