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Management
needs the ability to step back from the details and see the bigger,
complete
picture. Dashboards or cockpits with the right information perform that
function. The critical success factor here is defining Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs) that cover a multi-dimensional view that
goes far
beyond an
earned value chart. The goal of these KPIs is to foster greater
visibility and
faster reaction to opportunities and threats, hereby enabling informed
decision-making. Once management starts actively using such KPIs,
projects are
forced to bring and keep their measurement process in place.Based
on experience, SE-CURE AG has developed a set of KPIs that represent
current
best
practice in industry.
In this set, the following categories are
distinguished:
- Project
performance: How
predictable
is the performance of projects?
- Process
efficiency: How efficient
is
the development process?
- Product
scope: How large and
stable is the scope of the planned effort?
- Product
quality: What is the
quality of the resulting outcome/product?
SE-CURE AG has developed several products to support defining and
monitoring these KPIs:
Management
needs the ability to step back from the details and see the bigger,
complete
picture. Dashboards or cockpits with the right information perform that
function. The goal of the reported KPI values is to foster greater
visibility and
faster reaction to opportunities and threats, hereby enabling informed
decision-making. Once management starts actively using such KPIs,
projects are
forced to bring and keep their measurement process in place.
This product enables you to define and
monitor a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for your project.
Historical, target and actual values are displayed in overviews and
charts,
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This product
provides powerful instruments to project managers and
measurements specialists to plan, monitor and control their projects on
a more detailed level,
using the
same set of KPIs as in the Project Reporting
Cockpit.
In
addition, this product contains a module that allows one to analyze the
historical data of projects from the past. From these data,
the
model parameters of models like SLIM and COCOMO II are automatically
retrieved. When planning new projects, estimated values for these
parameters can be used to perform scenario analyses. This prevents
project from starting a 'mission impossible' and gives them the
underpinned argumentation what is feasible and what not.
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In
the
standard versions of these products, the KPI categories and their KPIs
are pre-programmed.
These categories and KPIs represent current best practice in industry.
Reason
for using this set of KPIs is that efforts undertaken at improving
development
capability should have demonstrable effects on each of these
KPIs. SE-CURE
AG
also offers
customized solutions, which address your specific needs.
In that case, we need to learn more about your wishes. We can very
easily
configure a cockpit that incorporates those KPIs that will help you
best at
managing your projects.
Click here to go to
the download area for a free trial or purchase.
Other available products are:
Use of capability maturity models like CMMI® has become
commonplace among software
development organizations. The first step in any process improvement
endeavor is to determine the baseline state. An organization can
undergo an official (external) appraisal, but that is not a
cost-effective solution for an organization that is still a novice in
process improvement or is small-sized. For organizations with little
process improvement experience or a small development team, a
better choice is to conduct a self-assessment. This can also be used as
a preparation for an official assessment.
This product supports both SCAMPIsm and
internal appraisal teams in recording their CMMI® (version 1.2)
findings
and (configurable) scores . |
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Financial measures
have many names. The most widely accepted measurement
of valuing projects and implementations today is Return on Investment,
or
commonly referred to as ROI. Other measures like NPV, Payback Period
and (M)IRR are however also strong financial measures . When
used in concert, these four
benchmarkshelp will help you making
the right investment decision.
This product enables you to specify a business case, comparing two
alternatives. By specifying benefits and costs over a span of years
(1-5) for
both alternatives, all four benchmarks are calculated automatically and
graphically displayed. This allows you deciding
instantly which
alternative is most attractive. Your decisions will become
fact-based. |
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| Scrum Management Toolkit |
To be
released soon! |
Click here to go to
the download area for a trial version or purchase.
The following products in the area of source code (trend) analysis are
offered by our partner SolidSource.
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| The Solid Fact
Extractor (SolidFX) is a standalone framework
for static analysis of industry-size C/C++ projects.
SolidFX uses
proprietary technology to analyze even the most complex C/C++ code
bases
efficiently and robustly. SolidFX offers predefined analysis scenarios
and
metrics to measure C/C++ code quality, maintainability, modularity,
detect
potential bugs and extract design from source code – all for coding
faster, cleaner, better. |
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| The Solid Trend
Analyzer (SolidTA) is a standalone application for
analysis of software repositories.
SolidTA uses a number of
proprietary and standard metric analyses to assess the evolution of
software
quality indicators for industry-size software versioning repositories
(e.g.,
CVS, Subversion). SolidTA presents the analyses results in an
intuitive
way to enable users to discover trend correlations and make fact-based
informed
decisions. Overviews of team activity or system metrics can be
produced in
minutes. No repository management expertise is required. |
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Solid Software Xplorer (SolidSX) is a standalone application that gives
insight in large software systems. SolidSX creates high-quality
visualizations that simultaneously shows the structure, dependencies,
metrics on all types of source code elements (files, classes, methods,
fields, etc.). By using hardware-accelerated graphics, SolidSX is able
to display large amounts of information in a clear and concise manner
and provides fast and easy exploration through large source codes. |
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The Solid Clone Detector (SolidCD) is
a standalone application for detecting and managing source code
duplication in software. It can be used to analyze large projects and
detect code that has been cloned (e.g., via cut-n-paste operations)
during development. Identifying such code fragments is of great
importance for:
- Facilitating development and
maintenance;
- Reducing the application memory
footprint.
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