“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” - Bill Gates
We are a team of international experts who work together to
offer training and consulting services in:
- Certified SCOPE Management (based on northernSCOPE)
- Software Measurement (Productivity and Quality Analysis)
- ISO Conformant Functional Size Measurement (Function Points)
- Systems and Software Requirements Management
- IFPUG Function Point Analysis training and consulting
- Software Process Improvement
We work with clients who want to maximize their success to build or acquire high quality software,
on time and within budget.
NEW! 2008 Published books by Carol Dekkers
Released Sept 10, 2008 BUY NOW!
--Peter R. Hill, CEO, International Software Benchmarking Standards Group
Program Management Toolkit for software and systems development (2008)
by Pekka Forselius, Carol Dekkers, Matti Kosonen, and Matti Karvinen
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NEW ! Certified SCOPE Management (CSM) training now available based on northernSCOPE(TM). August 10-14, 2009 TAMPA, FL.
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Find details and dates for our CSM SCOPE Management training workshops.
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Download our Certified SCOPE Management training brochure (PDF)
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Download our letter
to professionals about Certified SCOPE Management
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Download our humorous article: If Architects built Software
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We use proven project and scope management techniques,
and include measures of duration, work effort, defects, and cost
to pinpoint process improvements.
We work
with your team to customize measures to meet YOUR company needs using goal driven measurement (ISO/IEC standards such as 15939 and Goal/Question/Metric).
Our clients span a wide variety of industries and government agencies
-- we work with Executives, Project Managers, QA Specialists, Estimators, Contract Specialists, and others.
Do you need a measurement
QUICKstart(sm) this year?
QUICKstart is a low-cost, low-risk way to gain 5 days of training and consulting so you can achieve an early return-on-investment in software measurement. See our training pages for more information.
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