In its 22nd year, UKSMA, the United
Kingdom Software Metrics Association
hosts their conference with COSMIC, the Common Software Measurement
International Consortium
with the support of Unicom Seminars Ltd International Conference on Software Metrics
and Estimating
to be held in London, 27th/28th October 2011 Venue: The Grosvenor Hotel, Buckingham Palace Road (adjacent to
Victoria Station)
More than ever in the current financial climate, the software industry
needs high-quality measurement and estimating methods to help improve its
performance and deliver better quality product and service to customers,
on-time and on-budget.
This conference aims to improve awareness and understanding of software
metrics and estimating processes amongst the communities that capture
measurement data and those who must use data to obtain better performance,
with a program covering the latest thinking and best practice.
Measurement and estimating practices vary between the domains of
real-time, business and infrastructure software, yet the distinction between
these domains is becoming irrelevant to many software customers.
Business and public services increasingly rely on real-time,
mission-critical software whilst real-time systems need to collect business
data, and everything depends on infrastructure software. Remembering
that software engineering is defined as ‘a systematic, disciplined and
quantifiable approach to the development, operation and maintenance of
software’ (IEEE standard 610.12), there is still much to do to improve
metrics and estimating.
Presentations will address the following key
issues:-
Advances in software metrics and estimating methods, and
in processes for their use, for new development and
maintenance activities
Case studies of the use of metrics for estimating and
control of agile developments, for requirements quality
control, project control, etc
Case studies of the use of metrics for critical purposes
such as the control of outsourced contracts, delivery of
defect-free software, etc
Advances in software size measurement including
measurement automation
Obstacles to the use of metrics for software activities
and success stories in overcoming the obstacles
Metrics and measurement presentation for senior
management
Accuracy and repeatability of software metric methods,
and the accuracy of estimating methods; evaluation of
benchmark data for use in estimating
About UKSMA & COSMIC
United Kingdom Software Metrics Association (UKSMA) is a not-for-profit
user group, now in its 22nd year, designed to promote and improve the use of
software measurement and sizing. It does this by facilitating communication
and the sharing of expertise in various ways both within and beyond UKSMA -
primarily the organisation of metrics conferences and certification.
COSMIC (the Common Software Measurement International Consortium) is a
voluntary, world-wide grouping of software metrics experts. Started in 1998,
COSMIC has developed the most advanced method of measuring a functional size
of software. Such sizes are important as measures of software project
work-output and for estimating project effort, etc. The method, is
applicable to business, real-time and infrastructure software, is easy to
learn and simple to use, and is now being used world-wide. The method is
entirely 'open'; all method documentation is available in the public domain
for free download.
www.cosmicon.com
Event Features
High quality two-day multi-speaker programme
UK’s definitive event for the software metrics and estimating community
A well-established track record
Internationally-renowned keynote presentations
Targeted exhibition
Excellent networking opportunities
Speakers from industry and academia, from the business and real-time worlds,
from Canada, Estonia, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, UK
