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Chapter 25 Managing People
Boehm,
B. and Turner, R. 2005. Management Challenges to Implementing
Agile processes in Traditional Development Organisations.
IEEE Software, 22 (5), 30-9.
Gorla,
N. and Lam Yan Wah. 2004. 'Who Should Work with Whom? Building
Effective Project Teams'. Comm. ACM, 47 (6), 79-82.
Rost,
J. 2004. 'Political Reasons for Failed Software Projects'.
IEEE Software, 21 (6), 102-104.
Limits
on human information processing capacity
A classic paper (Miller, 1956) discussing how short-term
memory size limits our ability to process information.
Workspace
design for productivity
People
capability maturity model
Chapter 26 Software Cost Estimation
Chiang,
I.R. and Mookerjee, V.S. 2004. 'Improving Software Team
Productivity'. Comm. ACM, 47 (5), 89-93.
Sawyer,
S. 2004. 'Software Development Teams'. Comm ACM,
47 (12), 95-99.
Looks at the organisation of software development teams
from the perspective of social structures. Discusses organisation
around three archetypes - sequential, group and network.
Interesting article but I'm not clear what it tells us in
practice.
Jorgensen,
M. 2005. 'Practical Guidelines for Expert-Judgement-Based
Software Effort Estimation'. IEEE Software, 22
(3), 57-63.
Understanding
software productivity (Scacchi)
COCOMO
2
Software
cost estimation in 2002 (Capers Jones)
An
overview of software estimation
Chapter 27 Quality Management
Tian,
J. 2004. 'Quality-Evaluation
Models and Measurements'. IEEE
Software, 21 (3), 84-91.
Jung,
Ho-Won
et al. 2004.
'Measuring Software
Product Qualities: A Survey of ISO/IEC 9126'. IEEE Software,
21 (5), 88-92.
Software
quality assurance resource center
Software
metrics guide
A readable introduction but doesn't discuss limitations
of metrics.
Software
metrics roadmap
A summary of the state of the art in software metrics.
Chapter
28 Process Improvement
van
Solingen, R. 2004. 'Measuring the ROI of software process
improvement'. IEEE Software, 21 (3), 32-38.
Guerrero,
F. and Eterovic, Y. 2004. 'Adopting
the SW-CMM in a Small IT Organization'. IEEE Software,
21 (4), 29-35.
The
SEI's CMMI web site
The
Immaturity of CMM
An article that questions the approach of measuring
capability maturity.
Capability
maturity models
Links to a number of different capability maturity models
NASA's
software process improvement guidebook
Chapter 29 Configuration Management
The
configuration management yellow pages
A very extensive set of links to CM resources
Software
configuration management - a roadmap (Estublier)
A summary, written around 2002, of the state of the art
in software configuration management. I think it was published
in the proceedings of an ICSE conference.
Configuration
management tools summary
A summary of CM tools, available in 2002.
The
SEI's CM site
A site summarising the SEI's work in this area in the 1990s.
Lots of good papers.
Serrano,
N. and Ciordia, I. 2005. 'Bugzilla, ITracker, and Other
Bug Trackers', IEEE Software, 22 (2), 11-13.
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