 Some talks presented by Bob Podd
"Tuning a Software Development Process"
Getting Software Out on Time ... for a Change!
BACKGROUND NEEDED: Designed for Managers and Members of software
development teams who want to improve their group's performance.
GOAL: An attendee should be able to develop an appreciation of
why just throwing money or bodies at a project will not continue to improve results at the
same rate.
ABSTRACT: This talk describes some of the non-linear aspects of
software development processes. The participant will be introduced the concept of modeling
a software process in the 3 orthogonal axis of price, performance and schedule. This model
will be used to describe what happens when a software development process is tuned to
enhance one or more of these criteria.
The model will also be used to show what can happen when you: ship a
product late, add features during the maintenance phase, abandoning projects, and
experience other unplanned situations.
- How a price, performance, and schedule model can describe what happens
when you change portions of your software development process.
- No matter how good a job you do back in the lab, the market window rules
the real world.
- How different, early on, product choices impact product sales.
- Why pushing the performance envelope can make you late almost every time.
- Why it is worth almost any price to get products out on time.
Call Bob Podd at 508-877-4311 or email at bpodd@softwareresults.com
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