When considering the cost of software delay, or equivalently, the value of early delivery, you need to revert to the business case. If the software gives the organisation a first-mover competitive advantage in a market place, this will come with considerable rewards. If a delay means being second rather than first to market, then being [...]
Listen to an extract of the interview with Lonnie Franks, Software Project Assurance Expert as he discusses his experience and delight from using ScopeMaster for the first time: "Using ScopeMaster, I fixed $200,000 worth of problems in about 16 Hours" "And the good thing was, ScopeMaster was easy and fun to use." I set [...]
Come to the UK Software Testing Conference next week 22-23rd May and see ScopeMaster in action. See how it can drive up your project quality and potentially save a staggering 30% on your software development costs.
Update 2023 This article was originally written in late 2018. Now in 2023 more information is being reported. April 2023 update at Computer Weekly What we know now is that there were "some issues" i.e bugs that affected different groups of clients in different ways. It took them at least 7 months to resolve [...]
We are proud once again to be in the line up for another industry innovation award.
(150/16 , nearly 10) It's a real delight to see a genuine testimonial from a highly experienced IT professional such as Lonnie. I wrote my first commercial program in 1968 and have worked in software engineering and software engineering management most of the time since then. I joined NCR Corporation in 1980 and worked for them, [...]
Refining User Stories Refining user stories is the process of improving, splitting and clarifying each user story. The detail and clarity of each user story should be revisited. Backlog grooming is a term that generally refers to the higher level process of prioritising user stories. Both refinement [...]
The Launch of ScopeMaster.com - a major leap forward for saving time and money on software projects LONDON - 8 March 2018. Available from today at scopemaster.com, is the world's first, high-speed, software requirements analysis tool that will automatically size and find defects in written software requirements. According to the Standish group, over 40% of software projects [...]
ScopeMaster reaches the finals in the Buckinghamshire Business Awards for Innovation We are very proud to have been shortlisted for the finals of our local business awards in the innovation category. We look forward to the 5th April, when the results will be announced. If you would like to share [...]
Software Requirements Quality Requirements quality is a matter of some discussion amongst software requirements professionals. Here are four considered views on software requirements quality, that is what makes for a good requirement or a good set of requirements. Why does requirements quality matter? It is often useful to look at things in [...]
Know the size before coding Automated Function Point Analysis We took on the challenge to deliver a tool that automates function points estimation from written requirements. Using Natural Language Processing (a branch of AI) and numerous other layers of text analysis, ScopeMaster® determines a valid function point size estimate directly from written requirements. It [...]
