We recently offered ScopeMaster to Freelance Agile Project Manager, Mike Sanders, to assess how it might have helped on a couple of recent projects. He tried it out and was very impressed with the results, then offered some suggestions on how it fits with the Agile process: "I moved from technical [...]
Story points vs function points, what's the difference and why does it matter? Story points are arbitrary indicators of effort expected. They are inconsistent and unsuitable for use as the primary metric on software projects. We recommend that you switch to ISO standard COSMIC function points and give 14 reasons why. Story points vs function [...]
ScopeMaster Ltd, raises £140k from private angel investors to help organisations improve software success with their AI analyser of software requirements. ScopeMaster is also the name of their principal product, a software tool that automatically detects meaning from within written software requirements. By doing so it detects potential problems or bugs, before coding is even started. ScopeMaster [...]
ScopeMaster Ltd, UK - 5th November 2018 authors of the innovative AI-powered analyser of written software requirements, are pleased to announce integration with Atlassian's Jira. "With this integration, Jira cloud users can benefit from ScopeMaster's analyser from inside Jira, avoiding the need to maintain user requirements in two places. Agile teams can now conveniently enjoy the "ultimate [...]
We are very proud to have worked with leading academics to publish an article and to have it presented at a recent international software measurement conference. In collaboration with the Professor Alain Abran and Dr Erdir Ungan both of Université du Québec à Montréal, ScopeMaster author, Colin Hammond published a joint academic paper on the use of [...]
The ScopeMaster team will be at the Business Analysis Conference in London on 25-26th September. We’re looking forward to some exciting conversations about improving user story quality. Read more about the BA Conference London
User stories for API integration How to write a better user story for integration. This is one of several short articles on writing better user stories with ScopeMaster®. A large amount of software nowadays involves integrating different component-applications to create a new system. Consequently the software requirements will often refer to one system linking to another. [...]
ScopeMaster - Press Release, 21st August 2018 We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the prestigious UK British Computing Society Awards 2018 in the category of: Technology Excellence, subcategory: UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship. "This award will go to a new product or service that has delivered measurable benefit for customers, can demonstrate the potential to be [...]
Introduction to Stage Gates A stage gates process (also known as phase gate) is a common control mechanism associated with IT projects in corporate IT departments. A series of conceptual checklists are defined, such that unless all of the component activities have taken place, the project may not be allowed to proceed to the next stage. [...]
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) enhanced with ScopeMaster An overview of BDD BDD is a development methodology (and tooling) designed to improve the communication between business and software technical community, in particular it addresses the challenge of simplifying scenario testing. The foundation behind BDD is the Gherkin feature file. The feature file has a predefined structure and [...]
04.07.18 ScopeMaster has been approved by the UK government as a listed G-Cloud 10 supplier. G-Cloud 10 is the latest round of an initiative run by the government which focuses on reducing the complexity and cost of procuring cloud services within the public sector. ScopeMaster will now be able to expand its growing market reach further, [...]
We were delighted to be presented with this award from the Thames Valley Tech Awards Manager, Nathan Inns.
