Software Measurement – General

  • Is there a Secret for Software Development?, 2007
  • If Architects had to work like Software Developers, Quality Plus Technologies website, 2007
  • A Murphological View on Software Measurement: a serious joke or a funny serious thing?, Conference proceedings, SMEF Rome, Italy, , May 2005
  • Tackling Software Measurement? Try Proverbs, CrossTalk May 2005
  • Concepts and Considerations for Requirement-Based Estimates, Software Quality Professional Journal Dec. 2004
  • Collaborative Engineering: Challenges and Potential Improvements ICESS Conference Proceedings, Paris, France Dec. 2003
  • Steer Clear of Hazards on the Road to Software Measurement Success, WCSQ Conference Proceedings and Software Quality Professional Journal Fall 2003
  • Combat the Resistance to Software Measurement, CrossTalk July, 2003
  • All I Need to Know about Measurement & Process Improvement I Learned From World Cup Soccer, Conference proceedings, 2003
  • Software Quality, Leprechauns, and Other Myths and Legends Cutter IT Advisor, November 2000

  • The Secrets of Highly Successful Measurement Programs SSTC Conference Proceedings, May 2000

  • Measurement is No Silver Bullet, The Cutter IT E-Mail Advisor, December 29, 1999

  • Tame your Process with Metrics (aka Too Many Metrics, Too Little Time — How to Start a Software Measurement Program, Enterprise Development, June 1999.Save yourself the last-minute heroics! A sound system of measurements can save your development process (relatively) painlessly. Click on the link to download directly from Enterprise Development Magazine (June 1999).
  • The Secrets of Highly Successful Measurement Programs, Cutter IT Journal, April 1999
  • Overcoming the Myths of Measurement, Software Quality Professional Volume One, Issue Two, March 1999
  • Software Measurement and IT Conferences — A Practitioner’s Report, IT Metrics Strategies, February 1999
  • Unleash the POWER to Improve Software Quality Professional (SQP) Journal, December 2000

  • Dekkers, C. and Lundquist, G. em>The Proof Is in the Ratios: Turning Raw Data into Meaningful Software Metrics, The Journal of the Quality Assurance Institute, July 1996, pp. 1-5
  • Software Industry Averages: What they Mean and How to Ensure Applies to Apples Comparisons, IT Metrics Strategies, Volume III, No.6, June 1997, pp. 14-16
  • Function Point Industry Averages ‘Be Careful to Compare Apples to Apples’, MetricViews, A Publication of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG), Summer 1996, pp. 24-26
  • If You Don’t Know Your Data, Query Tools Won’t Help, IT Metrics Strategies, Volume III, No.7, July 1997, pp. 10-12
  • Metrics Futures, IT Metrics Strategies, Volume III, No.1, January 1997, pp. 14-15
  • Stand Up and Be Counted – Where’s the Fit Between Software Metrics and Total Quality Management?, Managing System Development, Applied Computer Research, March 1995, pp. 1-5