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September 2007 - Posts

• Quality Management in IS project

  A nice article: http://www.developer.com/mgmt/article.php/3644656 Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:16 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: quality management

• What are function points?

  Refer to the tutorial. http://www.devdaily.com/FunctionPoints/ Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:43 AM by XU YUNJIE | 1 Comments Filed under: function point

• What is extreme programming?

  Visit http://www.jera.com/techinfo/xpfaq.html for a breif intro. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:33 AM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: software development method

• Comparison of Software Cost Estimation Methods

  This article compares various methods used for software cost estimation. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:00 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Cost Management

• Schedule Management

  This source contains many documents related to IS project. There is one chapter about time and scheduling which covers part of the Chap 6 & 7 of our text. In fact, other chapters of the online project management book can also be downloaded. There Read More... Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:59 AM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Time Management

• Cost Management

  Cost estimation methods by C. Jones, 1995. Estimate cost using use cases . Some parameters (e.g., LoC for functions in various languages, parameters for Cocomo) needed for software sizing. An interesting demo of how Cost Xpert Suite does cost estimation Read More... Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:58 AM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Cost Management

• PM Professional Issues

  If you come across links/information about PM professional growth, such as certification institutions, job opportunity, industrial demand, educational resource, post them here. I will organize them. Read More... Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:55 AM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: PM Profession

• Estimate Software Size and Complexity

  There are vairous ways to estimate software development effort. I list a few of them here. Notice each has its validity as well as weakness. An article on Use-case points based estimate Use-case points, article 2 An IBM article on sofware size Software Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:09 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Sofware Size Complexity Estimate

• The difference in developer productivity on different platforms

  Branhamgroup.com has conducted a study to compare developer productivity with IBM and MicroSoft development platform. Refer to the source for more details. "This study provides a comparison of various productivity efficiencies and techniques between the Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:52 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Productivity

• How much time do users spend on a web page?

  This article may give you some idea. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:35 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Browsing Time Estimation

• What kind of server do you need?

  An article from Dell describes the way to calculate the server demand and the corresponding configuration need. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps3q01_graham?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:27 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Server Capacity Estimation

• Estimate Server Demand

  How many servers do you need for your project? The demand for server is a function of a set of factors including: The efficiency of application The number of processing functions needed to be run at server side The functional configuration of servers Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:17 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Server Capacity Estimation

• A More Complicated WBS - GENI

  GENI is an experimental facility being planned by the NSF, in collaboration with the research community. It's goal is to enable the research community to invent and demonstrate a global communications network and related services that will be qualitatively Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:06 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: WBS large systems networking

• How to develop WBS

  A how-to from ProjectConnections.com. Plan/Schedule Development: Task Identification - Work Breakdown Structure How-to process steps for developing a complete and thorough Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Membership (free) needed to download the template. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:57 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: WBS guideline

• WBS -- The Army Way

  Military Handbook 881A (MIL-HDBK-881A [30 JUL 2005]), "Work Breakdown Structures for Defense Materiel Items" serves as the basis for identifying the first three levels of the program WBS and developing the contract WBS for US military units. Click the Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:39 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: WBS guideline military

• A Website with all kinds of PM templates

  Projectconnections.com is a website with all kinds of resources. Particularly, it has all kinds of template and know-hows. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:11 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Resource template

• An Invitation to Use CS4254 Blog

  Dear Class 2007, I have created a blog for CS4254. You are encouraged to use it in various ways. For example, we can use it: To share learning resources To discuss concepts or experience To clarify course-related matters. Sorry that student posting is Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:03 PM by XU YUNJIE | 0 Comments Filed under: Course management 2007