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The Distributive ENote
A monthly e-newsletter from Distributive Management
February 2010 Issue 121
30 Minute Make-Over
Excel to Datadrill in a Few Easy Steps |
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 Distributive to Speak at Chesapeake INCOSE Chapter Meeting
Putting "Management" Into Your Requirements Management
While requirements engineering and requirements tools have become widely adopted, the number of software project failures attributed to poor requirements management remains high. Even though metrics that focus on requirements engineering are widely available, often only the most advanced and mature organizations actually use them. Managers who do use requirements engineering measures can spot trouble before a software project becomes a death march. The most common requirements engineering challenges faced by organizations attempting to manage the software development process are:
- Most requirements engineering tools don't provide a way to establish the number of requirements to be developed, the baseline
- Managers generally have no method for assessing requirements engineering progress against the baseline
- Requirements engineering processes don't quantify the extent and impact of requirement changes on a product
- Managers have no means to monitor and control the flow of requirements from development to design to coding and test
Each of the challenges above is directly addressed when measurement is included as part of requirements management activities. Requirements measures provide project managers with the data needed to actively manage their projects. And by better managing requirements engineering, managers ensure that they deliver a quality product that completely satisfies customer expectations.
In this presentation, Peter Baxter, President of Distributive Management, delivers practical guidance on why and how to measure, and then manage requirements, including recommended Requirements Management visuals.
Presentation slides will be available after the conference. Contact sales@distributive.com for more information.
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WEBINAR:30 Minute Make-Over: Excel to DataDrill in Just a Few Easy Steps
You've got the data and the graphs but do you feel confident with the answers you are getting from them? This webinar will show you how to use your Excel data in DataDrill and get the decision-suppporting insight you need right to your desktop.Transform your Excel data into sizzling-hot insight
Register Now: http://www.distributive.com/prodres_webinars.htm
Join us for our webinar and follow along as we begin with raw data in an Excel file and generate user-friendly indicators, graphs and dashboards for you, step-by-step:
· Identify the information need and the data source
· Pull current data into the central measurement repository
· Create a measurement report with formatted graphs
· Match the report with a project or program
· Deliver up-to-date dashboards to the whole team
Distributive Management's DataDrill gets to the heart of your data so you can use it to make data driven decisions and manage effectively.
When: Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 1pm ET (GMT-5)
Cost: Free
Where: Online with Distributive Management
Register: http://www.distributive.com/prodres_webinars.htm |
Effective Measurment Techniques for Small Organizations How can small organizations effectively meet the increased requirements of the CMMI Model? This tutorial from SEI Partner, Cyber Solutions, provides some real world solutions, describing the implementation results of measurement workshops conducted at several small organizations.
To View the Tutorial Click Here (opens in PDF file) |
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| A Conundrum: The Missing Dollar |
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Three men arrived in town late one evening for a convention. As their reservations had expired they went searching for a hotel vacancy. They finally arrived at a hotel where the clerk told them he indeed had one room left at $30 for the night. He continued that it was for two people, but he could have a cot brought up if the men didn't mind sharing. So the men took the room and each gave the clerk $10 and headed up to the room.
A few minutes later the night manager returned from a coffee-break and the clerk proudly told him what had happened. The night manager responded that $30 was the cost for two people, but he had crowded three into the room so for the sake of hospitality they should get a discount. He called over the bellhop, gave him $5 from the till, and told him he should split the refund among the three men.
Now the bellhop, on his way upstairs, was wondering how he could equally divide $5 among three people, when he had a brainstorm. Since the men had no idea of what was actually coming, he decided he would give them $1 each and just pocket the other two dollars; and that is what he did.
So, each man paid $10 and got $1 back. That means each man paid $9 and since 3x$9=$27, they paid $27 for the room. The bellhop has $2 in his pocket. $27 + $2 = $29.
What happened to the other $1?
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