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Software Metrics and Dashboards
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This workshop course helps PMO teams, project managers, and R&D leads measure software projects. Although equations and formulas are involved, the focus is on the understanding and practical application of initiating measurements in real-life projects. Moreover, this workshop covers the interpretation and communication of measurement results, both informally and in the form of dashboards.
   
Code P30
  Discipline Project Management
Duration 2 days
 
Course Information
Audience | At Course Completion | Prerequisites | Course Materials | Course Outline | TAKE THIS TRAINING

Audience

  Software Process Architects   QA/Test Managers   Development Managers
X   Business Analysts     QA User Testers     Software Developers
  Project Managers     QA Code Testers   X   User Education Specialists
               

at course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

»   Understand the role and usage of metrics »   Predict release quality
»   Understand metric theory and models   »   Introduce metrics programs
»   Understand release and process metrics   »   Communicate metrics results
»   Conduct project assessments   »   Design and mplement dashboards
»   Measure defect convergence        

prerequisites

»   Intermediate knowledge of software engineering or quality assurance

course materials

A comprehensive workbook with knowledge material, examples, case studies, lab exercises, and references.

course outline
Module 1: Software Development Process Models
»   Waterfall models
»   Iterative and incremental models
»   Rapid and Agile models
»   Project management processes
»   The rationale for metrics
Module 2: Measurement Theory and Models
»   Levels of measurement
»   Basic measures
»   Function points
»   Reliability and validity
»   Criteria for causality
Module 3: Software Release Metrics
»   Feature metrics
»   Quality metrics
»   Customer satisfaction metrics
»   Agile release metrics
Module 4: In-Process Metrics
»   Project goodness metrics
»   Schedule metrics
»   Productivity and cost metrics
»   Risk metrics
»   Agile process metrics
Module 5: Conducting Project Assessments
»   Assessment methods and cycles
»   Facts gathering
»   Data analysis and improvement planning
»   Metrics monitoring
Module 6: Defect Convergence and Prediction
»   Quality and the software endgame
»   Measuring defect convergence
»   Implementing defect prediction
Module 7: Implementing a Metrics program
»   Measurement process objectives
»   Metrics adoption, do's and dont's
»   Metrics project execution stages
»   Implementation tools
Module 8: Metrics Collection and Interpretation
»   Data gathering methods
»   Implementation tools
»   Data analysis
»   Interpretation in a project context
Module 9: Communication through Dashboards
»   The dashboard concept
»   Dashboard design
»   Implementation tools
»   Informal communication of metrics results

certificate

Students receive a SoftO2 Education Certificate upon completion of the course.

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