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Quantitative software measurement extends significant benefits to IT organizations. Relatively few successful, robust, and mature measurement frameworks have been implemented.Function … Read More Why Function Points?

In response to the pandemic, plenty of organizations had to re-invent themselves or significantly change the way they do business. … Read More The impact of COVID-19 on Your Cybersecurity Budget

As the statistician George Box once said, “All models are wrong, but some are useful”.  Development of cost models involves reliance … Read More The Art and Science of Cost Modeling

Cost estimating has relied primarily upon regression analysis for parametric estimating. However, regression analysis is only one of many tools … Read More Beyond Regression: Applying Machine Learning to Parametrics

View the presentation deck. As both the regulator and the only buyer in a market that measures over $500 billion … Read More Engineering the Acquisition Process: Better Value Through Mechanism Design

The recent final report of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Acquisition of Software for Defense Systems (February … Read More How to Estimate, Manage, and Track Performance on Modern Federal Software Development Programs

I, along with many others, have written about the virtues of one size metric versus another.  Some attempt to make … Read More Lines of Code Versus Function Points Versus Use Cases For Sizing

I am continually amazed at the wide variety of opinions about what Price-To-Win is and who plays what role in … Read More Price to Win: What It Is and When Estimation Gets Involved

There are probably as many definitions of IT Infrastructure as there are IT organizations.  I believe the following definitions are … Read More What Is IT Infrastructure: A Definition and a Taxonomy