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Software Survey Says...
A new analysis of more than 500 projects completed over the last five years shows trends in productivity, project size and complexity. The good news: Smaller, more intricate projects are being released more efficiently. The bad: Scope creep and poor early estimates continue to plague project managers.
As part of an ongoing series of conversations about trends in project and portfolio management, Projects@Work interviews Michael Mah, a senior consultant at Cutter Consortium and managing partner of Quantitative Software Management, which maintains a comprehensive database of software development project metrics from more than 7,200 projects spanning almost 30 years. This year QSM published a collection of its latest research findings on IT application development trends called the QSM Software Almanac. Mah is also a frequent speaker at industry events and the author of the upcoming book Managing Conflict in IT Organizations.
In 2001, QSM did an analysis of its database of completed IT projects and made some conclusions. How does the new almanac build on that data?
This 2006 almanac looks at a broader set of project drivers and it analyzes the data we've gathered over the last three years. We draw conclusions where we have a large enough statistical sample to make findings about fundamental behavior patterns.
In 2001, QSM noted that after steady improvement for almost two…
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