A Complimentary Webinar Exclusively for Cutter Consortium Clients

Michael Mah
Compared to What? A Look at Application Development Benchmarks

Presenter: Michael Mah, Senior Consultant, Cutter Business Technology Trends & Impacts, Measurement and Benchmarking, Agile Project Management, and Sourcing & Vendor Relationships Practices

How much will your next software development project cost? How does that stack up to what organizations of similar size spend? How should you staff that project? What level of reliability should you expect? Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Michael Mah along with his colleagues at QSM, Inc., has analyzed more than 500 IT projects in 16 countries across 16 industries in order to understand:

  • The tradeoffs between time and effort and the costs of staffing-up to achieve schedule compression
  • The duration, effort, and staffing levels of typical projects
  • The relationship between programming language, system size, software reuse, and productivity
  • Long term trend in the software industry
  • Best-in-class/worst in class performers

Discover the story the data tells, and how you can apply this knowledge to improve your organization’s software development effectiveness, in this hour-long interactive webinar. Come prepared to answer poll questions such as:

  • What is the duration of your typical project?
  • How many staff months are required for a typical project?
  • What is the average number of defects found from integration to delivery?

You may be surprised when you realize how your organization compares to those projects included in QSM’s research. It’s this comparison that’s so telling. You’ll get insight into the question of how your projects behave in the context of the outside world.

Spend an hour with Michael Mah and understand how collecting metrics and benchmarking them against like companies can improve your chances of software development success.

Get Answers to Your Specific Questions

The last 20 minutes of this webinar are devoted to a live Question & Answer session: Get your questions answered by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Michael Mah.

Compared to What? A Look at Application Development Benchmarks