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Yearly Archives: 2019

Government interest in automated functional sizing

June 17th 2019. We are delighted to have been invited to present the value and power of ScopeMaster at a forthcoming US government conference IT Cast to be attended by software acquisition specialists from a spectrum of government sector departments. The event takes place later this summer in Washington DC. ScopeMaster's unique ability to automate functional [...]

ScopeMaster Finalist for Four Industry Awards

We are very proud to be shortlisted as finalist in four categories of this new industry award.  At the heart of ScopeMaster is Natural Language Processing, a branch of AI.  We are using NLP to solve the specific problem of poor quality software requirements.  And it works very well, successfully improving the quality and measurability of software [...]

Benchmarking and Estimation

Notorious for costly delays, large software projects cost billions of dollars more than they should. ScopeMaster's upgrade today delivers more predictability and transparency for executives. ScopeMaster Ltd is a new company with a unique and carefully-researched approach to solving the problems of large software project delays, cost overruns and failures. ScopeMaster uses AI to analyse and [...]

Lessons for all Software Endeavours

"Technologists have a responsibility to ensure that technology not only does what it should but it doesn’t do what it shouldn’t." I write this as the details of the cause of the Boeing 737 Max air crashes are just starting to appear in the media. I hope that those of us involved in technology will be stimulated [...]

Requirements Analysis – Automated

Definition: Static Software Requirements Analysis is the automated testing of software requirements for quality and measurement. Background Software requirements analysis (or backlog analysis) is the set of techniques for deriving insight from written software requirements, or user stories. User stories, are written statements describing the functional need and purpose of software [...]

Better User Stories – 10 tips

Having examined and analysed over 10,000 user stories from different sources we have built up some insight into what represents a good user story.  If you would like to learn to write better user stories, you should find this article useful. What is a user story? Before we start on the 10 steps, let us revisit [...]

SQM 2019

2019 International Conference on Software Quality Management We are very pleased to confirm that Colin Hammond has been announced as a speaker at the forthcoming International Conference on Software Quality Management(SQM) on the 15th April.  For more details see the event page on the BCS website Keynote speakers will be Tom Gilb, Prof. Enrique Alba and Professor Liz Bacon

Organise and Filter User Stories

With our latest version of ScopeMaster, you can now create and apply labels to your user stories.  This can help you get the job done of creating great user stories. Remember that ScopeMaster is still doing the heavy lifting: analysis, interpretation, defect detection and size estimation of your user stories. By creating and applying labels that are [...]

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