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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:

Project Reporting Cockpit (Flyer)

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, from which information can be consumed at a glance.
Project Reporting Cockpit
Project Support Toolkit (Flyer)

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.
Project Support Toolkit

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.

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Other available products are:

CMMI® Appraisal Recorder (Flyer)

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 . 
CMMI Appraisal Recorder
Business Case Analyser (Flyer)

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.
Business Case Analyser
Scrum Management Toolkit To be released soon!

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The following products in the area of source code (trend) analysis are offered by our partner SolidSource.

Solid FX for C/C++  (Flyer)
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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.   SolidSource: SolidFX

Solid Trend Analyzer  (Flyer)
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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. SolidSource: Solid Trend Analyzer

Solid Software Xplorer  (Flyer)
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The 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. SolidSource: Solid Software Xplorer

Solid Clone Detector  (Flyer)
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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.

SolidSource: Solid Software Xplorer

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