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"Charlie Poole" wrote:
> "Traditional" covers a lot of ground. In past projects (70s) I
budgeted
> cost and scheduled work completion by month. I reported actual
expenditure
> versus budget, actual work complete against plan and the ratio of
the
> two - I believe we made up a name for the ratio, but I can't recall
it.
>
> Of course, none of this measured anything except our adherance to
plan.
> We could be right on schedule and still have the whole thing turn
out
> to be a waste of time. :-)
Yea, sorry. The best way I know is classify "traditional" is where
the Plan and compared with the "Actual Cost," and there is no measure
of the delivered value. In the EVMS world this is called Level of
Effort. As time passes, money is consumed, and it is assumed value is
accuring.
[snip]
>
> Has anyone tried to match the XP notion of value to EVMS? What I
mean
> by this is if we have completed some set of stories at some cost, do
> you differentiate the result from some other set of stories at the
> same cost, but having less [xp] value? Or less value in the real
> world? [costs avoided, lives saved, etc.]
This is the emerging discussion. I found several authors that are
using all the right terms, and unfortunatly have all the ideas we
have in a upcoming paper, darn...
Check out the papers at the bottom of the Niwot Ridge EV page, the
ones by Paul Solomon. He discuss all the aspects of SW EV management,
all that is left is to connect the dots...OK that'll be our job.
> This seems as if it would be pretty hard to do - and maybe not worth
> the effort. Or maybe outside the scope of IT - except that I seem
> to remember who got blamed when well-done projects didn't actually
> produce the hoped-for end results.
Oh juts the oppisite. The "testable requirments" papers ARE XP
process in EV cloths. Everything is there to move XP dircetly into EV
domains (OK minus all the Zen Master stuff, since we're really boring
an unemotional here). But, most of the "stories, UT, velocity, FT"
stuff is a very nice fit for EV software projects. Over this weekend
I've come to the realization that we're very close. My job this week
of to try to put all this together and try it on on my staff -
they're great critics.
I've had some private discussion with Ron, nayone interested in a
copy of our work in progress, drop me a note at
[email protected]
Glen B. Alleman
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