Executive Summary

Getting Started with Software Productivity Benchmarking

Posted August 31, 2002 | Technology |

Productivity benchmarking means comparing the productivity of your projects with the productivity of other similar projects. Productivity is an important measure of the performance of software projects in a portfolio. It is defined as the ratio of output to input. In software, this translates to the ratio of effort to develop a system over the size of the system.

About The Author
Khaled Emam
Khaled El Emam is Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, where he previously held the position of Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information. He is also founder, President, and CEO of Privacy Analytics Inc. As an entrepreneur, Dr. El Emam has founded or cofounded five companies involved with data management and data analytics over the last two decades. He has worked in technical and management positions… Read More
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