Quantitative Enterprise Software Performance

QESP is a specialist group of practitioners wishing to share their experiences and learn from others in the area of Software Quality, Software Process and Software Metrics. Amongst our members we have some of the best known experts in this field. It is a national organisation and may have international members.

QESP Membership Special Offer

In 2010, all new and renewing QESP members receive free copies of the following ISBSG Special Analysis Reports:

Techniques and Tools II
Early Lifecycle Project Estimation
Software Project Characteristics that Impact on Productivity
Team Size Impact

"For many years the lack of readily available benchmark data blinded software developers and managers to the real economics of software. Now that ISBSG is making data on thousands of projects available to the software industry, it is becoming possible to make solid business decisions about software development practices and their results in terms of productivity and quality, ISBSG data is a valuable asset for the software industry and for all companies that produce software." - Capers Jones

These ISBSG Special Analysis Reports provide valuable information to CEOs, IT Managers, project managers, maintenance & support management personnel, QA personnel and practitioners. Each special report provides knowledge to improve planning and management of IT projects. The standard QESP member discounted price for each report is $284.

Renew your existing QESP membership or to take out a new QESP membership and receive these ISBSG Special Analysis Reports, FREE!

For further information on all ISBSG products available to QESP members at a discounted rate, view the ISBSG product page.

QESP Webinar Series 2010

QESP is proud to announce the QESP Webinar Series 2010.

The QESP Webinar Series 2010 features a number of Australia's leading practitioner experts presenting on a range of contemporary issues and ideas from the fields of software process, quality and metrics & measurement. Participation in the QESP Webinar Series 2010 is free for all QESP members.

The QESP Webinar Series 2010 provides QESP members with access to information on some of the latest software delivery and management concepts and techniques currently being discussed and implemented across the IT industry. In many cases, QESP members will find that the benefits from these ideas and techniques are directly applicable within their own organisations and work practices.

View the full QESP Webinar Series 2010 program.

The first presentation in the QESP Webinar Series 2010 is titled, "Estimating an Agile Project" and is to be presented by David Cleary from CHARISMATEK Software Metrics in February 2010.

View the presentation abstract and presenter bio and register to attend.

Remember, attendance at the Webinar Series 2010 is free for all QESP members.

Participation in the QESP Webinar Series 2010 is straight-forward. All you need is a PC with built in speakers and access to the Internet via a standard web browser - and, of course, you need to be a QESP member!

QESP looks forward to your participation in this exciting new initiative.

ACOSM2010 - The Australian Conference on Software Measurement

ACOSM2010 - The Australian Conference on Software Measurement - will be held in Melbourne on Tuesday 5 October 2010.

ACOSM2010 will be held in conjunction with the ISBSG International Workshop and will feature a range of leading international software metrics & measurement speakers.

ACOSM2010 promises to be the one of the most significant software metrics & measurement event in Australia in recent times. Make sure you don't miss it!

Further details and registration information will be available on the QESP website shortly.

Download papers and presentations from past ACOSM conferences.

Down The Drain: How To Avoid Wasted Effort & Boost Your ROI From Process Improvement

Presented By James Kelly, CEO, Zenkara.com

We regularly hear about why process is critical to business (TQM, ISO9001, CMM, CMMI, EFQM, BPMN, BPR, etc). We invest large amount of budget into process activities and as a result have large repositories of project, development and operational processes. There are always lots of activities leading up to a major assessment/achievement (CMMI, ISO9001, etc) and everyone is happy.

However, a year or two later, companies find their process maturity has degraded – perhaps not as bad as it was before, but certainly on its way down. Processes are not updated or followed, wrong versions are used and there is general apathy to them.

Does this sound familiar?

What they don’t teach you about software at school: Be Smart!

Presented by Dr. Ivar Jacobson, father of components and component architecture, use cases, aspect-oriented software development, the Unified Modelling Language and the Rational Unified Process.

One of the most popular buzzwords in software development is agile. Today everyone wants to be agile. That is good! However, being agile is not enough. You also need to be smart. What does that mean?