... Long ago, Value Engineering approached design with the very same questions. Wonder why there is no ref to VE now a days. ... Good question. What did...
VE is still a standard FAR clause in DoD contracts. One reason you may not hear much is that government PMs got burned by contractors who built their ...
... Yes, the only thing truly "required" is that the system, in conjunction with the users interacting with it, solve certain customer problems. Product ...
Comments embedded below: ... [snip] ... with ... (such as ... solve. Roger has hit the nail on the head. Part of our problem, as engineers and software...
I already know flazx.com. However, it contains unuseful books for me, usualy are the oldest books. I am trying to find books or articles those are written for...
... OK Tony, But UML is not geared to "functional requirements specification" be it in the formal sense or more lay terms where it would be more appropriate to...
Dear Troy C Green: If you are looking for examples of "User Stories" of methodologies other than UML, you may skip the rest. There are plenty of stories of...
Absolutely, I have just built a "User Story" template that is business process driven. Any light you can shed to enhance the value would be greatly ...
Hi Capers, Thank you very much for your suggestion - we'll investigate this in our future research. Currently, the research is focused on introducing degrees...
Hmm.... I think, if you know UML notations and understand the concepts, same rule applies for embeded system. Better ideas would be identifying correct actors,...
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Kwanu, That is an excellent goal if you are concerned with small applications. Above 10,000 function points Agile's value declines and eventually turns...
Hi Thanks but I need a sample with small concept. If you want, I can write my problems, I met while I use UML for embedded systems. 1-) There are layers, each...
I see. UML won't help much. let me see if I can manage some time to draw up a mock up for you. I have a better suggestion though, petri net is a better...
... Firstly - check out the expert's instructions. http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/userstories.html Secondly here are two from an existing project; 1. ...
That is an excellent goal if you are concerned with small applications. ... Is there any reference for this argument? Asking because one of my friends is...
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All, A staff of 50 developers correlates to about 7,500 function points. A 10,000 function point application usually has about 65 development personnel ...
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Fall 2008 issue's content: * Controlling Project Risk by Design *...
Khaled El Emam wrote an article for the Cutter Consortium's Agile group that studied some two dozen agile projects. His conclusion was that the vast majority...
Hi Bob and Capers There is an ongoing argument in Extreme Programming group about this issue. May I post your arguments there so I can invite here (R-E) people...
... Although I have no statistics about this, what I generally observe at agile shops they do much work with less people (and generally speaking less LOC), ...
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All, I think that consolidating all known info on the sizes of successful Agile projects would be beneficial to the industry. As background information, pasted...
(responding to Seyit Caglar Abbasoglu) ... Nevertheless, the 10,000 FP limit is reasonable, as far as it goes. Let's start with a reasonable rate of work for a...
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Paul, Where did you get a rate of 2 FP per staff day? My data indicates Agile productivity of about 15 function points per staff month. If you assume 22...
I admit arguments are very reasonable. But it seems like while discussing 'Agile' we are likely considering a set of practices, rather than a mindset. That is...
Hi: Khaled post is very interesting. On a Business Analysis related web site an agile "guru" recently essentially stated that analysis - the basis of...
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All, Above 10,000 function points about 35% of software projects are cancelled and never delivered at all. More than 60% of the residue that do get delivered ...
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