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Review of COSMIC and ScopeMaster by Kirk Bryde
Following a long debate with over 200 participants on linkedin, Kirk Bryde, published this useful summary about COSMIC sizing and the automation of requirements analysis by ScopeMaster®. This is a balanced summary of a discussion that was at sometimes heated and involved over 200 contributors. Read the article on Linkedin
Shortlisted for Computing DevOps 2022 awards
Once again, ScopeMaster® has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Computing DevOps awards. This time in the categories of Most Innovative DevOps Vendor and DevOps Tool / Product of the Year Fingers crossed for the 23rd March!
Press Mentions
News and Articles https://www.devteam.space/blog/how-ai-is-transforming-the-product-development-process/ https://lighthousetechnologies.com/2020/01/28/automatically-find-requirement-defects-using-scopemaster/ Books https://www.amazon.co.uk/Applying-Artificial-Intelligence-Project-Management/dp/1687550948
ScopeMaster Supporting the Canadian Government
PRESS RELEASE Marlow, UK. December 6, 2021 Canadian Treasury Seeks Project Certainty with ScopeMaster The Canadian Treasury Secretariat are working on a large implementation of IBM's Cúram software and they have turned to ScopeMaster® (intelligent requirements analyser) to help improve the quality and sizing of requirements for this project. Better requirements will reduce potential mistakes and give greater certainty to the rollout of the new government administration and engagement capabilities. The Need for Quality Requirements The project team is working on configuring complex rules in Curam to support social engagement. These rules must be implemented correctly to avoid mishandling of cases. Clear, [...]
Software Measurement – an overview for CIOs
Software measurement is important because it is hard to manage what you don't measure. Software work is knowledge work. It is one of the costliest endeavours undertaken by mankind, with more than 50 million people across the world working in highly paid software roles, and for most of them, their efforts are unmeasured. Many people don't realise that software size can be measured. Most other forms of human labour have standardised measures of size and productivity. But with software work, although suitable metrics exist, they are seldom used. Industry leaders, educators, executives and even governments have so far been relaxed about [...]
Linkedin Summary of Discussion on COSMIC Function Points and ScopeMaster
Kirk Bryde, Agile Coach, Agile Consultant, and Sr Scrum Master compiled this objective review of COSMIC Function Points their use in Agile and the use of ScopeMaster to automate the sizing of backog items. He also wrote his own article on Sizing and ScopeMaster that can be found here, entitled How would you rank CFPs, Story-Points, Story-Counts, and Story-Days?
