In today’s business arena there are many risks involved in creating high quality products on time and within budget. With ever-increasing product complexity, increasing demands for better products with more functionality and decreasing time to market windows, doing business is risky.
This is huge. More than 1,100,000 companies world wide will be impacted. But, a lot of questions exist.
The working draft of the ISO 9001 (2015) has been circulating. It is a paradigm shift and will be a challenge for many registered companies.
As result of several CERM Risk Insights articles, we’ve been asked to address the risk challenges and opportunities in the transition with articles and videos (Vlogs) on Youtube. We’ll be addressing our hard lessons learned as we moved from a 100% quality consultancy to a 100% risk consultancy.
Many companies outsource (subcontract) a majority of their work to stay competitive in today’s global environment. As a result, a serious risk arises associated with obtaining accurate and audible proposals from subcontractors for inclusion into the proposal to their customer. Continue reading
Risk Management is a process by which uncertain events (risks) that may affect a project are identified, analysed, planned for, monitored (controlled) and, in the event that they are realised, dealt with.
However despite the conventional wisdom that Risk Management will prevent project failure from a cost, time, quality perspective or whatever other criteria has been established for successful delivery, projects continue to fail.
Version 22.1 February 3, 2013
Capers Jones VP and CTO
Namcook Analytics LLC
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Email: Capers.Jones3@gmail.com
INTRODUCTION
Number of benchmark sources currently: 23
Number of projects in all benchmarks sources: 91,000 (approximately)
Quantitative software benchmark data is valuable for measuring process improvement programs, for calibrating software estimating tools, and for improving software quality levels. It is also useful for studies of industry and company progress over time. This catalog of software benchmark data sources is produced as a public service by Namcook Analytics LLC for the software community. It is not copyrighted and can be freely distributed.
There are many different kinds of benchmarks including productivity and quality levels for specific projects; portfolio benchmarks for large numbers of projects, operational benchmarks for data center performance; security benchmarks, compensation and staffing benchmarks for human resource purposes; and software customer satisfaction benchmarks. SEI software assessment data is also included. Continue reading