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Getting started with data-driven software management
Regain control by measuring productivity and quality to drive results. Why measure software economics? If you can’t measure...
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Software Quality & Performance
Primer on Design Quality, the (More Important) Half of Steering Software Projects
Durable business agility = product agility * process agility. You need both. Process measures are not enough. Most software leadership...
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Software Quality & Performance
More Honest Earned Value Management of Software Projects
Process measures are easy to spin and game. Product measures are more honest. Software systems...
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Software Quality & Performance
Health of the Forest Does Not Equal the Health of the Individual Trees
Practitioners and leadership must objectively understand both code quality and design quality. The...
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Software Quality & Performance
Is Your Software Healthy?
Process measures tell only part of the story. Quantifying design quality helps to steer projects and improve software economics. Software projects are complex and...
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Software Quality & Performance
How Honest Are Your Software Measures?
Process measures are easy to spin and game. Product measures are more honest. Software systems...
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Software Quality & Performance
Quantify Design Quality. It Is the Crux of Instrumenting a Lean Transformation.
Business agility is as much a function of architecture as it is of process. Are you wasting too much time in overhead work?...
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Software Quality & Performance
Gain Control of Your Software Portfolio
Use ROI and risk-based decision making to drive results.
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Software Inventory & Assessment
Software Risk & Readiness
Silverthread Predictive Analytics and Benchmarking
Modeling the impact of technical health on software economics. Technical health and its impact on software economics...
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Software Inventory & Assessment
Software Risk & Readiness
Steering Software Projects More Predictably
Measuring design quality provides breakthrough insight for steering. Software delivery outcomes have...
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Software Quality & Performance
Is Your Code Structured As You Intended? Probably Not.
Hidden and unintentional complexity causes waste and overhead. Identify architectural impurities early and consistently...
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Software Inventory & Assessment
Software Quality & Performance
Cloud Migration
Rethinking Quality Metaphors: From Technical Debt to Technical Health
Technical health doesn’t happen by accident. Like the human body, it requires regular attention and care.
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Software Quality & Performance
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You Can't be Agile with Agile™ Process Alone
Walker Royce once told me that if you have Agile™ process but not an agile product - you just "make crap faster." True agility—the ability...
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Software Modernization
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The Blame Game: Why Projects Fail and What Really Causes It
The blame game often targets people first, processes second, and technical health last—but the reality is the opposite...
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Software Risk & Readiness
Software Quality & Performance
Applying the Software Development Process: Separation of Concerns with Silverthread's CodeMRI®Suite
In the realm of software engineering, Separation of Concerns (SoC) stands as a transformative methodology...
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Software Modernization
Cloud Migration
The Importance of Modularity in Software Security and Applying Dependency Analysis for Code Security
In today's interconnected digital landscape, software security has become a paramount concern for organizations across various industries.
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Software Risk & Readiness
Play Offense: How to Pull the Trigger on a Software Refactor or Rewrite
Measuring design quality can help you act decisively and manage change.
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Software Modernization
Improving Software Health for Economic Impact
Dan Sturtevant is CEO and co-founder of Silverthread, the leader in software economics helping...
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Software Inventory & Assessment
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What You Should Consider Before Beginning an Application Modernization Project
There are seven suggested strategies when modernizing an application, especially when...
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Software Modernization
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Viewing Technical Debt from a Financial Perspective
What is Technical Debt? Technical debt is the creation, either purposefully or not, of imperfect or unsound code which increases...