Software Best Practices

I have a love/hate relationship with software metrics. While I acknowledge that well designed, well collected, and well utilized measures on software projects can be of huge benefit to the project team, most of us suffer under the burden of measures that are non-designed, ad hoc collected, and not utilized...

Where I can find some quality metrics, errors, estimation, defects, poor management, those related with software crisis. I want to use those facts in my classroom, I have some but the are older, I need some new data. Thanks

One of my readers asked the following very reasonable question: We are looking for industry benchmarks detailing the amount of time developers spend on a percentage basis in the following three categories: 1) Core job activities (writing, testing, deploying code, etc.) 2) Meetings 3) Administrative activities...

Can anyone point me to a resource that would provide industry data identifying the relative composition of an embedded system by functionality? For example: In an automotive ECU what percentage of the total LOC are used for running the communication bus, for built-in-test, obtaining and conditioning...

Earl and Steve point out the difficulties of making developers directly responsible for profitability. That is true, but that doesn't mean you cannot help them be indirectly responsible for profitability. The key is clearly defining what makes you profitable - this is a difficult challenge. One example...

I'm glad SixSigmaGuy asked for this. Personally, I like having it as its own forum. As soon as I saw the link, I jumped straight here and joined Construx Conversations. I am doing quality assurance tasks on a systems engineering project and very interested in any information about software metrics...

Hi, how about adding a forum on software metrics. That is a topic of great interest to me and I'd love to discuss issues with others. Thanks!