Using Project Process and Product Measurement to Improve Project Decision Making
The presentation will introduce the concepts of software measurement and via some industry case studies provide the audience with an insight into how measurement can assist project managers in informed decision making. The presentation will introduce the national role of Australian Software Metrics Association (ASMA) in assisting Australian organisations to implement measurement. It will provide some background on the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) and the practical uses of their repository of industry data.
Pam Morris
Pam has over 20 years experience in software development and since 1989 has specialised in the area of software measurement and process improvement.
Pam is the Managing Director of Total Metrics and the Vice-President of the Australian Software Metrics Association (ASMA) where she holds a position on their Executive and the Benchmarking Database Special Interest groups. She represents Standards Australia as the international project editor of the ISO standard 14143-1 and 2 for Functional Size Measurement. She was the international convenor of ISO/IEC/WG12 group developing FSM standards from 1997 to 2004. She plays an active role internationally in the development of measurement standards and sat on the International Function Point User Group (IFPUG) Counting Practices Committee in the USA from 1993 to 2000. She is a member of the COSMIC-FFP Core Group responsible for the development of the COSMIC-FFP FSM method. She has been an IFPUG Certified Function Point Specialist (CFPS) since 1994.
