Title
Measuring the Effectiveness of a Structured Methodology: A Comparative Analysis
Abstract
This study evaluates a vendor supplied structured methodology which was implemented in a large manufacturing organization. Thirty projects using the methodology are measured for efficiency and effectiveness of software maintenance performance. The performance of these projects is evaluated using both objective metrics and subjective measures taken from stakeholders of the software applications. The performance results of these thirty systems are then contrasted to the performance results of thirty-five applications in the same organization that do not use this structured methodology and to one hundred sixteen applications across eleven other organizations. All of these applications had been in operation at least six months when they were studied. The software applications developed and maintained using the structured methodology were found to have some significant cost and quality performance gains over the applications that do not use this methodology
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1109/HICSS.1998.654809
HICSS (6)
Keywords
Field
DocType
comparative analysis,thirty system,performance result,structured methodology,objective metrics,thirty project,software application,large manufacturing organization,software maintenance performance,hundred sixteen application,quality performance gain,projects,programming,computer integrated manufacturing,quality management,software maintenance,application software,information systems,organization,software performance,software quality,software metrics,quality control,application development,manufacturing,documentation,process control
Software engineering,Computer science,Computer-integrated manufacturing,Knowledge management,Manufacturing engineering,Software performance testing,Software,Software metric,Software maintenance,Software quality,Application software,Quality management
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-8248-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kay M. Nelson139537.51
H. James Nelson218913.35
Mehdi Ghods31139.17