This webinar with Capers Jones shows how standard “test beds” using function points can be used to evaluate a selection of software methods. This webinar uses a standard analytic approach for evaluating the effectiveness of new and emerging technologies on software development productivity, software maintenance productivity, and software quality. This presentation uses recent data to analyze Agile development, extreme programming, the ITIL library, SCRUM sessions, Watts Humphrey’s Team Software Process (TSP) and Personal Software Process (PSP), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Six-Sigma for Software. These technologies are evaluated on the basis of the 12 known ways that software projects can be improved. Capers will also discuss expanded uses of function point metrics for portfolio analysis, backlog analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and outsource agreements.

Learning objectives: Show how function points provide a method for evaluating new technologies; Demonstrate the evaluation method against new technologies such as TSP/PSP; Discuss the pros and cons of new software technologies; Provide latest productivity and quality data based on new technologies.

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