Abstract :
Whether you are benchmarking an organization or simply a project, it all boils down to one thing-data. Do you have the necessary data in your company, and is that data valid and comparable? How can you access data from other organizations? To help you answer these questions and avoid some common serious mistakes in the benchmarking process, the author has summarized her practical real-life experiences with software project data collection and benchmarking efforts in the guidelines
Keywords :
program testing; software development management; benchmarking software development productivity; real-life experiences; software project data collection; Costs; Databases; Guidelines; Measurement units; Productivity; Programming; Size measurement; Software measurement; Software tools; Time measurement;
