home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31 / NN_1992_31.iso / spool / comp / software / 5172 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Text File  |  1992-12-29  |  1.3 KB  |  30 lines
  1. Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!kudzu
  3. From: kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio)
  4. Subject: Re: Appeal to SEI (was: Debugging the process)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.182740.1180@netcom.com>
  6. Keywords: "sei cmm" "sw engineering" "process improvement" "sw quality"
  7. Organization: True Love, and Home-Grown Tomatoes
  8. References: <Bzp0KE.8xL@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec28.113148.15707@sei.cmu.edu> <1992Dec28.193911.20735@asl.dl.nec.com>
  9. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:27:40 GMT
  10. Lines: 18
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Dec28.193911.20735@asl.dl.nec.com> 
  13.      terry@asl.dl.nec.com writes:
  14.  
  15. >...Indeed,
  16. >one of my complaints was that it unclear what a level 2 organization as
  17. >defined in early SEI materials would DO with their metrics it was clearly
  18. >supposed to collect.
  19.  
  20. Initially, nothing.  Level 2 implies that you use a documented procedure
  21. for estimating artifact size -- lines of code, function points, whatever.
  22.  
  23. A disciplined process needs to be in place for some time in order for
  24. any measurements to be useful.
  25. -- 
  26. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  27. |  Michael Sierchio                          1563 Solano Avenue, Suite 123 |
  28. |  kudzu@netcom.com                                Berkeley, CA 94707-2116 |
  29. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  30.