Sounds really cool, Ersan, as I'm sure the Group members will agree. I'll check it out as soon as I get a chance !
-- C. On Nov 11, 6:05 am, Ersan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > It has been more than a year when this question comes to my mind and > triggered ideas in my brain.. I was focused on my MSc studies in > software engineering at the university and i was trying to figure out > if software development should be considered as an activity of > "engineering" ? or "craftsmanship" ? > > When we talk about engineering, the most important part of engineering > is to provide models and verify the model based on quantified datas so > that you can build tools based on your models... > > When we talk about craftsmanship, its more chaotic... We just don't > know. It's about the craftsman who matters. If we have skilled people, > our product is good... Timothy Lister and Thomas De Marco has a famous > quote about this fact " It's not about technology, it's about > people..." And I believe this statement is true. > > Is there any research about this proposition ? Definetely... Let's > check out The Chaos Report from the Standish Group.. They say, 81 > Billion $ wasted because of cancelled or challanged software projects > in USA. > > Wow. 81 Billion dollars. What was the necessary budget needed for US > to overcome financial crisis ? 700 billion ? > > almost 1/7 part of it wasted for cancelled software projects... > > But why ? why ? why ?? If we are talking about engineering, this > shouldn't happen. Can you imagine a construction project have the same > failure rates ? No way ! But why software engineering ? > > We liked this question and told ourselves, "if it's about people, and > yet software development is craftsmanship... why not focusing on > dev`s ?" > > so we developed an addin integrated with visual studio called dev \ > efor which monitors your development progress in terms of code and > effort metrics... > > It measures the Code Metrics and shows the progress ( trend ) of the > projects you are working on and also, it measures effort metrics and > let you answer such questions like "how much actual time spent while i > was working on this particular project" > > We used this addin with some real life projects and the results are > interesting... At avarage, a standard developer spents 1.5 hr to 3.5 > hr actively using visual studio. The maximum rate for a standart > developer works in front of VS IDE is 40 minutes in a hour. If we > consider a week, the avarage working hour in front of VS IDE is 1.5 > hrs. > > It's really interesting... > > We provide this addin free and it's in beta stage right now.. when we > finish with it, this client add-in will also be free. > > What we aim to do is, if the community use this addin and share the > results with everyone, we believe the academicians and involved > engineers may identify the patterns and we can make better estimations > with the data provided by the community. Therefore, we might > contribute a little to eachother so that we might save that 81 billion > dollars wasted money for good. > > You can download this addin fromwww.devefor.com/downloadand please > let us know what you think... I am monitoring this forum. > > Thank you so much if you read so far : ) > > Cheers ! > > Ersan
