The benefits of this metrics workshop was reinforce participants basic understanding of fundamental project management concepts and provide participants experience in defining a core metrics set and in successfully implementing it within their own organization context. This workshop was helpful in identifying issuers that need to be addressed in the effective use of metrics and quantitative techniques to manage a project. As a result of completing this workshop, an initial set of measurements to be implemented within your organization will be captured a clear understanding between the relationship between the measurements and software project management practices will be well understood.

Using Goal, Question, Metric Methodology to Design a set of Metrics.

Designing and Implementing a Work Breakdown Structure.

Software Size : Lines of Code, Other Physical Size Measures, Function Points, Other functional measures.

Product Metrics : Schedule, Cost, Effort.

Process Metrics : Performance, Process Improvement.

Quality Metrics : Defect Density, Reliability, Maintainability.

Metrics associated with higher levels of maturity : Improving productivity, Understanding process capability, Analyzing the Variance of Metric Values Using Statistical Techniques, Quantifying goals and project performance.

Metrics Collection, Process Company Templates for Management and Engineering Metrics.

Metrics Reporting : Process Company Templates for Management and Engineering Metrics.

Criteria to Evaluate and Select Metric tools

The intended audience is managers, team leads, and senior developers who are responsible for and perform project planning, monitoring, and control activities.

Andy Felschow is an internationally recognized expert in software process improvement. He leads The Process Company, LLC (TPC) which has distinguished itself as a leader in facilitating process Improvement for organizations around the world. He has been active in the field of systems and software engineering for the past 23 years holding many positions in the software, software development and program management.
In his current position he provides strategic guidance and direction for TPC's software process improvement and assessment services program. He has developed the CMM profile method, which is used primarily as a non-intrusive interim assessment method that complements the CMM-Based Appraisal for internal Process Improvement (CBA-IPI) method.
Mr. Felschow is authorized through the Software Engineering Institute to lead CBA-IPIs. He has lead assessments/appraisals for the last 11 years. He has completed over 95 software Process Assessments and CBA-IPIs. He has developed PRISM and other software tools that helped organizations accelerate their process improvement journey.
Mr. Felschow is contributing author to third edition of the Software Quality Assurance Handbook. Mr. Felschow is very active in the Software Process Improvement Networks (SPIN) throughout the United States.