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Jan. 1st,
2013
SE-CURE AG has closed several new contracts with companies in the
automotive industry and power/automation industry. Main focus is the
definition
and development (definition and rollout) of KPI dashboards for management to monitor status and
trends in systems development. In addition, a major Swiss bank was
contracted as a new client to develop a Management Information System.
Existing course materials also increasingly find their way to the
market through
customizations. Current focus is on the Arab countries.
Jul. 6th,
2012
Dr. Hans Sassenburg was invited to give the opening keynote at the CMMI
Portugal conference in Coimbra/Portugal. The title of the presentation
is "IT Portfolio Management: From Chaos to Transparency to Improvements", and is based on applied research projects conducted with the SEI.
Sep. 17th,
2010
The Software Benchmarking Organization
(SBO), founded by SE-CURE AG and SolidSource
BV,
will organize the successful workshop "Software Management by Numbers" on the
following dates: Oct. 9th in Porto/Portugal and Nov. 24th in
Eindhoven/Netherlands.
Sep. 14th, 2010
Dr. Hans Sassenburg was invited to give the opening keynote at the ICSM 2010
conference in Timisoara/Rumania. The title of the presentation is "Building multi-sidedness into tomorrow's systems through projective analysis", and is based on applied research projects conducted with the SEI. For more
information, click here.
May. 10th, 2010
The Software Benchmarking Organization
(SBO), founded by SE-CURE AG and SolidSource
BV, announces the launch of a FREE online
service that enables companies to perform a first-order
benchmarking study of their software development projects. Four Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) are
investigated: Schedule, Effort (Budget), Productivity and Staffing Rate.
The benchmarking results are based on the empirical data published in
the book Applied
Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality
by Capers
Jones (ISBN 978-0-07-150244-3),
for which permission to use
has been granted. To
access the FREE online service, click here. Your feedback is highly appreciated! SBO is planning to extend this utility based on
your
feedback.
Feb. 2nd, 2010
Dr. Hans Sassenburg featured as presenter in a webinar organized by CAI and the IT
Metrics & Productivity Institute with the
title "Measuring the Immeasurable: What is Your Real Performance
Capability?". Over 700 people subscribed and rewarded the
webibar with a very high score. You can download the slides with notes here.
For other webinars, click here.
Jan. 20th,
2010
Prosource and SE-CURE
will organize the successful workshop
"Software Management by Numbers". In this workshop, a powerful set of
16 best
practice KPIs
is presented, using a multi-dimensional perspective, together with
benchmarking data (industry, best-in-class). This enables a
quantitative assessment of a software manufacturer‘s capability and
define an underpinned business case for improvements with quantified
targets. Date: Feb. 26th 2010, venue: Mechelen/Belgium.
Nov.
12th,
2009
The Software Benchmarking Organization
announces a series of benchmarking studies in
different industry segments. The main focus is on three industries:
embedded,
financial and automotive. The data will be analyzed and the results
benchmarked
against industry values (average, best-in-class). The overall
anonymized
results will be made available to all study participants in the last
phase of
the study. Together with the company specific measurements, the results
will
serve as factual base for assessing software (process) improvement
efforts. For more information, click here.
The Software
Benchmarking Organization was founded in 2009 by SolidSource
BV and SE-CURE AG. This organization has the
objective to
provide benchmarking services to the software industry. The portfolio
includes benchmarking studies, workshops, and supporting
products. The portfolio is brought to the market through an
international network with accredited partners.
Apr. 6,
2009
During the
last decade, SE-CURE AG has become a known player in the area of
quantitative analyses of software projects and organisations. Core
expertise is analysing death
march projects and bringing them back to live. This work is supported
by internally developed
analysis instruments, based on the work of gurus like Lawrence Putnam,
Barry Boehm,
Watts Humphrey and Capers Jones. Clients have increasingly asked
SE-CURE AG to make
these analysis
instruments publicly available, so they could pro-actively
analyse, plan
and
control their projects. This
request has now been honored. A first series of products
is released, enabling software manufacturers to get better grip on
their
projects: analysis of historical project data, underpinned estimations,
quantitative monitoring of
progress
made using a multi-dimensional perspective, and informative management
reporting.
In addition, 3 very powerful 1-day workshops have been
developed:
- "Software
Management by Numbers": how to analyse and
improve software capability? For
more information, click here.
- "Software
Estimation by Numbers": how to estimation
projects using quantitative techniques? For
more information, click here.
- "Software Planning and
Monitoring by Numbers": how to plan and monitor projects
using quantitative techniques? For
more information, click here.
Feb. 4,
2009
SE-CURE AG will
support Verum
(Waalre/Netherlands) in
examining the benefits of Verum's ASD:Suite.
Studies will be
conducted comparing conventional software development
capability with software development based on the
ASD:Suite. Verum has invented a
new technology for designing and mathematically verifying the
correctness and completeness of complex software systems. The result is
a
technology that allows designs of complex software systems to be
modelled and mathematically verified for completeness, correctness and
conformance to specification before a
single line of code has been written. SE-CURE AG will bring in
available scientific and
empirical knowledge
as well as collected experiences over the last 20 years. Comparisons
will be made using a multi-dimensional view:
project
performance, process efficiency, product scope and product
quality.
Nov. 9,
2008
SE-CURE
AG has released a series of courses addressing challenges
software
manufacturers are confronted with. Special emphasis is placed on
problems encountered in practical settings and possible
remedies to reduce or even eliminate risks. The
curriculum,
existing
of 15 courses at 5 different levels, is derived
from internationally accepted standard references such as PMBOK,
SWEBOK, publicly available work from the SEI, and books from respected
authors. The powerful, highly-valued exercises are based on practical
experiences from our (senior) instructors.
The balance between lectures and exercises is 50/50. All
courses are now available to industry through SE-CURE AG's
partner
network. For more information, click here.
Nov. 1,
2007
On
Thursday 1 November 2007, Prof. Henk
Sol, chair of the jury and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and
Business of the University of Groningen, announced the
winner of the
2007 Aart Bosman Prize: Dr. Hans
Sassenburg, Managing Director of SE-CURE AG. Sassenburg’s
PhD thesis (2005) focused on the dilemma
faced by software producers: when to release newly developed software.
Releasing products too soon increases the chances of errors and the
inevitable consequences of this, but if they wait too long they give
the competition too much room. In its report, the jury praised the
comprehensiveness of Sassenburg’s research. For more information, click
here.
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