This document discusses various topics related to software project management and metrics. It describes the roles and skills needed for a software project manager, including motivation, organization, and innovation. It also discusses characteristics of effective project managers such as problem solving, leadership, achievement, and team building. The document outlines several software metrics that can be collected, such as size-oriented metrics, function-oriented metrics, quality metrics, and defect metrics. It provides details on calculating and using function points and discusses measuring aspects of quality like correctness, maintainability, and integrity.
Software metricsIntroduction
Attributes of Software Metrics
Activities of a Measurement Process
Types
Normalization of Metrics
Help software engineers to gain insight into the design and construction of the software
Activities of a Measurement Process
To answer this we need to know the size & complexity of the projects.
But if we normalize the measures, it is possible to compare the two
For normalization we have 2 ways-
Size-Oriented Metrics
Function Oriented Metrics
Software metricsIntroduction
Attributes of Software Metrics
Activities of a Measurement Process
Types
Normalization of Metrics
Help software engineers to gain insight into the design and construction of the software
Activities of a Measurement Process
To answer this we need to know the size & complexity of the projects.
But if we normalize the measures, it is possible to compare the two
For normalization we have 2 ways-
Size-Oriented Metrics
Function Oriented Metrics
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3. Project Management
Project management is a people-intensive
activity, and for this reason, competent
practitioners often make poor team leaders.
They simply don’t have the right mix of
people skills.
4. Project Management
Edgemon states: “Unfortunately and all too
frequently it seems, individuals just fall into
a project manager role and become
accidental project managers.”
5. Project Management
Jerry Weinberg [WEI86] suggests a MOI model of
leadership:
Motivation. The ability to encourage (by “push
or pull”) technical people to produce to their best
ability.
Organization. The ability to mold existing
processes (or invent new ones) that will enable
the initial concept to be translated into a final
product.
Ideas or innovation. The ability to encourage
people to create and feel creative even when
they must work within bounds established for a
particular software product or application.
6. Software Project Manager
A software project manager should
concentrate on understanding the problem
to be solved, managing the flow of ideas,
and at the same time, letting everyone on
the team know (by words and, far more
important, by actions) that quality counts
and that it will not be compromised.
7. Effective Project Manager
Characteristics that define an effective
project manager emphasizes four key
traits:
Problem solving
Managerial identity
Achievement
Influence and team building
8. Problem solving
Problem solving An effective software
project manager can diagnose the technical
and organizational issues that are most
relevant, systematically structure a solution
or properly motivate other practitioners to
develop the solution,apply lessons learned
from past projects to new situations, and
remain flexible enough to change direction if
initial attempts at problem solution are
fruitless.
9. Managerial identity
A good project manager must take charge
of the project. She must have the
confidence to assume control when
necessary and the assurance to allow good
technical people to follow their instincts.
10. Achievement
To optimize the productivity of a project
team, a manager must reward initiative
and accomplishment and demonstrate
through his own actions that controlled risk
taking will not be punished.
11. Influence and team building
An effective project manager must be able
to“read” people; she must be able to
understand verbal and nonverbal signals
and react to the needs of the people
sending these signals. The manager must
remain under control in high-stress
situations.
12. Team Toxicity
Jackman defines five factors that “foster a potentially toxic team
environment”-
1. A frenzied work atmosphere in which team members
waste energy and lose focus on the objectives of the work
to be performed.
2. High frustration caused by personal, business, or
technological factors that causes friction among team
members.
3. “Fragmented or poorly coordinated procedures” or a
poorly defined or improperly chosen process model that
becomes a roadblock to accomplishment.
4. Unclear definition of roles resulting in a lack of
accountability and resultant finger-pointing.
5. “Continuous and repeated exposure to failure” that
leads to a loss of confidence and a lowering of morale.
13. Software Project Manager
The software project manager, working
together with the team, should clearly
refine roles and responsibilities before the
project begins.
The team itself should establish its own
mechanisms for accountability (formal
technical reviews3 are an excellent way to
accomplish this) and define a series of
corrective approaches when a member of
the team fails to perform.
14. Software Projects
Reel [REE99] suggests a five-part
commonsense approach to software
projects-
Start on the right foot
Maintain momentum
Track progress
Make smart decisions
Conduct a postmortem analysis
15. Start on the right foot
This is accomplished by working hard (very
hard)to understand the problem that is to
be solved and then setting realistic objects
and expectations for everyone who will be
involved in the project.
It is reinforced by building the right team
and giving the team the autonomy,
authority, and technology needed to do the
job.
16. Maintain Momentum
Many projects get off to a good start and
then slowly disintegrate. To maintain
momentum, the project manager must
provide incentives to keep turnover of
personnel to an absolute minimum, the
team should emphasize quality in every
task it performs, and senior management
should do everything possible to stay out of
the team’s way.
17. Track Progress
For a software project, progress is tracked
as work products (e.g., specifications,
source code, sets of test cases) are
produced and approved (using formal
technical reviews) as part of a quality
assurance activity.
In addition, software process and project
measures can be collected and used to
assess progress against averages
developed for the software development
organization.
18. Make smart decisions
In essence, the decisions of the project
manager and the software team should be to
“keep it simple.”
Whenever possible,decide to use commercial
off-the-shelf software or existing software
components,decide to avoid custom interfaces
when standard approaches are available,
decide to identify and then avoid obvious risks,
and decide to allocate more time than you
think is needed to complex or risky tasks
(you’ll need every minute).
19. Conduct a Postmortem Analysis
Establish a consistent mechanism for
extracting lessons learned for each project.
Evaluate the planned and actual schedules,
collect and analyze software project
metrics, get feedback from team members
and customers, and record findings in
written form.
20. Software Metrics & Measurement
Software metrics refers to a broad range
of measurements for computer software.
Measurement can be applied to the
software process with the intent of
improving it on a continuous basis.
21. Software Measurement
Measurement can be used throughout a
software project to assist in estimation,
quality control, productivity assessment,
and project control.
22. Software Process and Product
Metrics
Software process and product metrics are
quantitative measures that enable software
people to gain insight into the efficacy of
the software process and the projects that
are conducted using the process as a
framework.
23. Metric
The IEEE Standard Glossary of Software
Engineering Terms [IEE93] defines metric
as
A quantitative measure of the degree
to which a system, component, or
process possesses a given attribute.
24. Metric
A software metric relates the individual
measures in some way (e.g., the average
number of errors found per review or the
average number of errors found per
person-hour expended on reviews.
25. Indicator
An indicator is a metric or combination of
metrics that provide insight into the
software process, a software project, or the
product itself [RAG95].
An indicator provides insight that enables
the project manager or software engineers
to adjust the process, the project, or the
process to make things better.
27. Project Indicators
(1) assess the status of an ongoing project
(2) track potential risks
(3) uncover problem areas before they go
“critical,”
(4) adjust work flow or tasks
(5) evaluate the project team’s ability to
control quality of software work products.
28. Process Indicators
Process indicators enable a software
engineering organization to gain insight into
the efficacy of an existing process (i.e., the
paradigm, software engineering tasks, work
products, and milestones).
They enable managers and practitioners to
assess
what works and what doesn’t. Process metrics
are collected across all projects and over long
periods of time. Their intent is to provide
indicators that lead to long-term software
process improvement.
29.
30. Personal Software Process
The personal software process (PSP) is a
structured set of process descriptions,
measurements, and methods that can help
engineers to improve their personal
performance.
It provides the forms, scripts, and
standards that help them estimate and plan
their work. It shows
them how to define processes and how to
measure their quality and productivity.
31. Public Metrics
Public metrics generally assimilate
information that originally was private to
individuals and teams. Project level defect
rates (absolutely not attributed to an
individual), effort, calendar times, and
related data are collected and evaluated in
an attempt to uncover indicators that can
improve organizational process
performance.
32. Software Metrics
Grady [GRA92] suggests a
“software metrics etiquette” that is appropriate for both managers and practitioners as they
institute a process metrics program:
Use common sense and organizational sensitivity when
interpreting metrics data.
Provide regular feedback to the individuals and teams who
collect measures and metrics.
Don’t use metrics to appraise individuals.
Work with practitioners and teams to set clear goals and
metrics that will be used to achieve them.
Never use metrics to threaten individuals or teams.
Metrics data that indicate a problem area should not be
considered “negative.”
These data are merely an indicator for process improvement.
Don’t obsess on a single metric to the exclusion of other
important metrics.
33. Causes of Defects
Causes of defects and their origin for
software projects-
Specification/Requirement analysis
Design
Coding
36. Project Metrics
Software process metrics are used for
strategic purposes. Software project
measures are tactical.
That is, project metrics and the indicators
derived from them are used by a project
manager and a software team to adapt
project work flow and technical activities.
37. Software Project Metrics
• Inputs—measures of the resources (e.g.,
people, environment) required to do the
work.
• Outputs—measures of the deliverables or
work products created during the software
engineering process.
• Results—measures that indicate the
effectiveness of the deliverables
39. Direct Measures
Direct measures of the software
engineering process include cost and effort
applied.
Direct measures of the product include lines
of code (LOC) produced, execution speed,
memory size, and defects reported over
some set period of time.
40. Indirect Measures
Indirect measures of the product include
functionality, quality, complexity, efficiency,
reliability, maintainability, and many other
"–abilities“.
41. Size-Oriented Metrics
Size-oriented software metrics are derived
by normalizing quality and/or productivity
measures by considering the size of the
software that has been produced. If a
software organization maintains simple
records, a table of size-oriented measures.
42. Size-Oriented Metrics
Referring to the table entry (Figure 4.4) for
project alpha:12,100 lines of code were
developed with 24 person-months of effort
at a cost of $168,000.
It should be noted that the effort and cost
recorded in the table represent all software
engineering activities (analysis, design,
code, and test), not just coding.
43.
44. Size-Oriented Metrics
Errors per KLOC (thousand lines of code).
Defects4 per KLOC.
$ per LOC.
Page of documentation per KLOC.
45. Drawbacks of Size Oriented
Metrics
LOC measures are programming language
dependent.
They penalize well-designed but shorter
programs.
They cannot easily accommodate
nonprocedural languages.
Their use in estimation requires a level of
detail that may be difficult to achieve.
47. Function-Oriented Metrics
Function-oriented software metrics use a
measure of the functionality delivered by
the application as a normalization value.
Since ‘functionality’ cannot be measured
directly, it must be derived indirectly
using other direct measures.
48. Function-Oriented Metrics
Function-oriented metrics were first
proposed by Albrecht.
Function points are derived using an
empirical relationship based on countable
(direct) measures of software's information
domain and assessments of software
complexity.
49.
50. Function-Oriented Metrics
Number of user inputs
Number of user outputs
Number of user inquiries
Number of files
Number of external interfaces
51. Number of user inputs
Each user input that provides distinct
application oriented data to the software is
counted. Inputs should be distinguished
from inquiries, which are counted
separately.
52. Number of User Outputs
Each user output that provides application
oriented information to the user is counted.
In this context output refers to reports,
screens, error messages, etc. Individual
data items within a report are not counted
separately.
53. Number of User Inquiries
An inquiry is defined as an on-line input
that results in the generation of some
immediate software response in the form of
an on-line output. Each distinct inquiry is
counted.
54. Number of Files
Each logical master file (i.e., a logical
grouping of data that may be one part of a
large database or a separate file) is
counted.
55. Number of External Interfaces
All machine readable interfaces (e.g., data
files on storage media) that are used to
transmit information to another system are
counted.
56. Function Points
To compute function points (FP), the
following relationship is used:
FP = count total [0.65 + 0.01 Σ(Fi)]
where count total is the sum of all FP
entries obtained.
57. Complexity Adjustment Values
1.Does the system require reliable backup and recovery?
2. Are data communications required?
3. Are there distributed processing functions?
4. Is performance critical?
5. Will the system run in an existing, heavily utilized operational environment?
6. Does the system require on-line data entry?
7. Does the on-line data entry require the input transaction to be built over
multiple
screens or operations?
8. Are the master files updated on-line?
9. Are the inputs, outputs, files, or inquiries complex?
10. Is the internal processing complex?
11. Is the code designed to be reusable?
12. Are conversion and installation included in the design?
13. Is the system designed for multiple installations in different organizations?
14. Is the application designed to facilitate change and ease of use by the user?
58. Function Points
Each of these questions is answered using
a scale that ranges from 0 (not important
or applicable) to 5 (absolutely essential).
The constant values in
FP = count total [0.65 + 0.01 Σ(Fi)] and
the weighting factors that are applied to
information domain counts are determined
empirically.
59. Using Function Points
Once function points have been calculated,
they are used in a manner analogous to
LOC as a way to normalize measures for
software productivity, quality, and other
attributes:
Errors per FP.
Defects per FP.
$ per FP.
Pages of documentation per FP.
FP per person-month.
60.
61. Function Point in various
Programming Languages
Programming
Language
LOC/FP (average)
Assembly language 320
C 128
COBOL 106
FORTRAN 106
Pascal 90
C++ 64
Ada95 53
Visual Basic 32
Small Talk 22
Powerbuilder 16
SQL 12
62. Quality
The project manager must also evaluate
quality as the project progresses. Private
metrics collected by individual software
engineers are assimilated to provide project
level results.
63. Quality
Many quality measures can be collected,
the primary thrust at the project level is to
measure errors and defects.
64. Quality
Metrics derived from these measures
provide an indication of the effectiveness of
individual and group software quality
assurance and control activities.
65. Metrics
Metrics such as work product (e.g.,
requirements or design) errors per function
point, errors uncovered per review hour,
and errors uncovered per testing hour
provide insight into the efficacy of each of
the activities implied by the metric.
66. Defect Removal Efficiency
Error datacan also be used to compute the
defect removal efficiency (DRE) for each
process framework activity.
67. Factors Assess Software from
three Distinct Points
(1) product operation (using it),
(2) product revision (changing it), and
(3) product transition (modifying it to work
in a different environment; i.e., "porting"
it).
69. Correctness
A program must operate correctly or it
provides little value to its users.
Correctness is the degree to which the
software performs its required function.
The most common measure for correctness
is defects per KLOC, where a defect is
defined as a verified lack of conformance to
requirements.
70. Maintainability
Software maintenance accounts for more
effort than any other software engineering
activity.
Maintainability is the ease with which a
program can be corrected if an error is
encountered, adapted if its environment
changes, or enhanced if the customer
desires a change in requirements.s
71. Integrity
Software integrity has become increasingly
important in the age of hackers and
firewalls. This attribute measures a
system's ability to withstand attacks (both
accidental and intentional) to its security.
72. Usability
Usabilityis an attempt to quantify user-friendliness
and can be measured in terms of four
characteristics:
(1) the physical and or intellectual skill required to
learn the system.
(2) the time required to become moderately
efficient in the use of the system.
(3) the net increase in productivity (over the
approach that the system replaces) measured
when the system is used by someone who is
moderately efficient.
(4) a subjective assessment (sometimes obtained
through a questionnaire) of users attitudes toward
the system.