Measurement Tailoring Workshops

IEI provides the procedures and experienced personnel to implement Measurement Tailoring Workshops to identify the important issues and select a tailored set of measures. IEI performs one- or two-day, on-site visits to gather data and to conduct non-intrusive interviews. The Workshop opening presentation includes a formal entry presentation describing the purpose, scope, and findings of each visit. Follow-on visits and tasks in the Measurement Workshop process include: 

1. a software issue identification session, with recommendations focused on process and product measurement implementation and analysis;

2. an initial issue-driven measurement training course;

3. a formal exit presentation describing the results of the visit with appropriate recommendations, including:

   1. procedures to assist project managers and their staff in assessing the level of maturity of their software products;

   2. identification of issues and risks in meeting performance and usage expectations;

   3. procedures to implement a viable software measurement process;

   4. procedures to use the software measures for executive decisions at major milestone reviews and to manage the day-to-day decisions;

   5. an assessment of the degree to which shortfalls in the development process migrate to the product;

   6. procedures to assess continuous process improvement efforts.

IEI provides a report that presents the results of each Measurement Workshop visit. This Measurement Workshop Report evaluates the software products in relation to known, inherent software and information technology (IT) process risks that are identified from risk analysis and measurement results. The report identifies technical issues, areas of concern, product deficiencies, and inherent shortfalls in overall IT product maturity. The final Measurement Workshop Report also addresses two related subtasks:

1. characterization of the developer’s software measurement process and identification of software process and IT management issues;

2. characterization of the developer’s software IT products.