Live Webinar – April 23rd, 2014 1:30 pm – 2:30 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
By:  Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

What constitutes stellar performance and best practice? You can’t really say what’s good or best … unless you measure it.

High-performing athletes rely on measurement to understand and improve so that they can compete effectively and win. Can knowledge workers such as software engineers use measurement in a similar approach? Absolutely. But the measures need to be practical, relevant, trustworthy, and actionable. They need to be used by the individual to benefit the individual.

Join Mark and Bill to:

• See the emerging empirical results of over 100 software project teams that have collected accurate performance data
• Learn about the techniques that were developed and used to validate the accuracy of the collected data
• Learn how four basic measures can provide close-looped feedback to help software engineers understand and improve their performance

You don’t need to measure everything.

It only takes a few basic and easy-to-collect measures to help you and your team manage schedule commitments and software quality. Tune in during this webinar to find out what those key measures are, how you can collect them, and how you and your software development team can use them effectively.

During this webinar, Mark and Bill will share the performance results of over 100 software teams that have carefully tracked their schedule performance and the quality of their work. They will show you how high-integrity empirical results such as these can be used at the individual, project, and industry levels to characterize performance in meaningful and insightful ways.

Presenters:

Mark Kasunic (LinkedIn profile) – Mark joined the SEI in 1994 and is now a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) . Currently a member of the Team Software Process Initiative, Marks  work has focused on transitioning performance improvement technologies into practice. His current research  interests include, project performance measurement, and practical measurement /analysis approaches that help  improve technical performance. Mark  has a Masters in Systems Engineering. Mark is a certified TSP Mentor Coach and a certified Scrum Master.

William (Bill) Nichols PhD (LinkedIn profile) – Bill  is as a senior member of the technical staff and serves as a Personal Software Process (PSP) instructor and Team Software Process (TSP) Mentor Coach with the TSP Initiative within the Software Solutions Division (SSD).  His TSP publications include the The PSP and TSP Bodies of Knowledge, The TSP Coach Mentoring Program Guidebook, and various publications addressing software quality planning. He has a doctorate in physics from Carnegie Mellon University.

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