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 sixteen hours.” “And the good thing was that ScopeMaster was easy and fun to use.” |
“I set to work refining the user stories.”
“It was a slot machine application from a gaming company.”
“We started with about 80 user stories; it wound up being 90 user stories by the time I was done.”
“I wanted to groom these requirements, fix any problems. Looked at them, I didn’t much care for the requirements, so I used ScopeMaster as a tool in part because, I think, people normally don’t spend enough money on requirements. They’ll spend about 3% of their project budget—should be spending about 10% —and because in Agile development, a lot of times you get inconsistent requirements, there’s always a lot of rework, sometimes as much as 45% rework.”
150 problems found automatically in 400 function points.
“I had another person import the user stories into ScopeMaster for myself. Took about 10 minutes, I’d spent 16 hours. The tool took only minutes to find about 150 problems. I worked through each of the requirements, fixing problems, added a few things because of missing requirements and wound up analysing it at 400 function points… “
“Using ScopeMaster, I fixed $200,000 worth of problems in sixteen hours. That would have cost about $400,000 to develop. Of course, with so many issues, 150 issues, it probably would have cost closer to $600,000 when it should have cost about $400,000.”
Amazing return on investment.
“It would have cost about $4,000 had I charged for it, and on a $400,000 project budget that’s only one tenth of of one percent of your project budget. So if you can do things faster, cheaper and better, and so significantly better, that’s really important.”
Lonnie Franks
30th May, 2018
