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Abstract:
Based in part on D.N. Card's presentation to the Proceedings Pacific Northwest Software
Quality Conference, October 2006, this talk will address the challenges on developing effective Productivity Measurement in an organization.
This presentation will cover:
- Factors that must be considered in selecting measures and analysis models – not
just the choice of size measure
- Measuring the factors that affect the outcome of projects in an organization
- Multiple views of productivity needed to satisfy all information needs
Bio: David N. Card is a fellow of Q-Labs, a
subsidiary of Det Norske Veritas. Previous employers
include the Software Productivity
Consortium, Computer Sciences Corporation, Lockheed Martin, and Litton Bionetics.
He spent one year as a Resident Affiliate at the Software Engineering Institute and seven years as a member of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory research
team. Mr. Card is an internationally recognized expert in software measurement and
process improvement. He has worked extensively with high maturity organizations
where quantitative and statistical methods are essential. Mr. Card is the author
of Measuring Software Design Quality (Prentice Hall, 1990), co-author of Practical
Software Measurement (Addison Wesley, 2002), and co-editor ISO/IEC Standard 15939:
Software Measurement Process (International Organization for Standardization, 2002).
Mr. Card also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Systems and Software.
He is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality.
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