Past Conference Presentations

UKSMA/COSMIC Conference 2012

23rd Annual Conference hosted at the Union Jack (Waterloo, London): 21st Century Metrics

			Conference bios
01	Keynote speaker: Practical proven metrics tools for IT Projects		Tom Gilb
02	Agile Software Measurement		Clifford Shelley
03	Agile Measurement		Hennie Huijgens
04	Software Rates vs. cost per Function Point: a cost analysis of 10.000 software projects from 8 big clients		Rafael de la Fuente
05	Productivity Planning Considerations in Industrial Agile – A Vendor View		Avinash Rao
06	Project control based on functional size –   which method to use?		Harold van Heeringen
07	Is Your Metrics Programme Out of Control?		Ally Gill
08	Software Comprehensive Count with Quality Indicators (SCCQI)?		Jasveer Singh
09	Designing New Millennia Metrics		Muktha Kartik, Mahindra Satyam
10	The use and benefits of Functional Size Measurement in the context of AUTOSAR		Dr. Hassan SOUBRA
11	Why Size Matters		Ton Dekkers
12	Keynote Speaker: Measures to get the best performance from your software suppliers		Charles Symons
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UKSMA/COSMIC Conference 2011- conference special newsletter

22nd Annual conference on Metrics and Estimating: hosted in collaboration with COSMIC

			Conference bios
01	Keynote Speaker: Meta-cognition, Confidence and Bias in Software Estimating		Martin Shepperd and Carolyn Mair
02	Keynote Speaker: Accounting for Non-Functional Requirements in Productivity Measurement, Benchmarking & Estimating		Charles Symons
03	Towards a Sound Adoption of Measurement and Metrology in Software Engineering		Luca Santillo
04	Here and now or the Value Tetrahedron?		Alan Cameron
05	The Effect of the Quality of Software Requirements Document on the Functional Size Measurement		Gokcen Yilmaz
06	Goal-Oriented Measurement: Comprehensibility of Model Transformations		Shekoufeh Kohlahdouz-Rahimi
07	Simple Function Points		Roberto Meli
08	Estimating and pricing of software services		Frank Vogelezang
09	Do we really need to choose one Functional Size Measurement Method?		Cigdem Gencel
10	Software Development Analytics		Clifford Shelley
11	Applying an assessment protocol to the COSMIC automation prototype tool at Renault SAS		Hassan Soubra
12	Coping with Asymmetry: Some Pitfalls of Three Point Estimation and How to Avoid Them		Simon Wright
13	Keynote Speaker: HMRC - Achieving Better for Less		Vince Groome
14	Keynote Speaker: Automating Functional Size Measurement – a Survey		Alain Abran
15	Defect Density and Project Profiling		Peter Thomas
16	Estimating Application Management'		Frank Vogelezang & Burmann
17	Successful Measurement of Test Process Improvement		Brian Wells
18	Measuring and Estimating Ongoing Agile Projects in Real-Time		Thomas Fehlmann
19	Synthesizing Software Quality Metrics for Executive Operations Reviews		Eric Seufert
20	Predictable Pricing for Agile Development		Grant Rule
21	Measurements Stories from the Trenches		Erika Vintan
22	Comparison of Software Benchmarking Repositories from Effort Prediction Perspective		Mina Nabi
23	Application development Productivity Measurement - some  Concepts & Considerations		Carl Bideau
24	Software Estimation Maturity		Ton Dekkers
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UKSMA Conference 2010

01 Keynote Speaker: See Business Differently		Stephen Parry
02 HybrEEd: Combining Methods for Effective Effort Estimation (E3)		Ingo Elsen
03 Earning more with lower risk		Ton Dekkers
04 The Capgemini Approach to Sizing Non-Custom Software Development Projects/Project Elements		Carl Bideau
05 The use of GQM to set performance objectives for software delivery		Clifford Shelley
06 Budget planning using risk based estimates: Budget wellness for tomorrow		Bharathi Vasanthakrishna
07 Measuring the Quality of the Software Engineering Process		Ingo Elsen
08 Test Process Improvement; Measurement is Critical to Success!		Brian Wells
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UKSMA Conference 2009

01 Is Automated Software Sizing Useful - yet		Mike Harris
02 Just Enough Measurement and Estimating		Niels Malotaux
03 Measurement in a continually changing environment	tbn	David Whalley
04 The Power of User Data to Aid Decision Making		Chris Dale
05 Benchmarking Software Components		Jeremy Gardiner
06 Capgemini use case points and other sizing method		Carl Bidaeu
07 Implementing goal-driven measurement: case study		Gert Leroy
08 eXtreme Measurement	tbn	Clifford Shelly
09 Test Process Improvement - Measurement is Critical		Brian Wells
10 How can you maintain integrity when accounting for software development costs?		Grant Rule
11 Application Outsourcing: how much money are you losing/saving?		Michael Hartley and Dirk VanDendaele
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17th annual UKSMA Conference (2006): Making software measurement valuable

CIO symposium on software best practice: Leveraging Metrics for Superior IT Practice

01 Measurement Value - Howard Rubin
02 FPA and other size metrics
04 Making FunctionPoints Count
06 Balanced Scorecard
08 Backfiring COSMIC size from Java
10 COSMIC and the economic case for software metrics
12 Managing a Mature Measurement Process
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Keynote speaker: Howard Rubin 

UKSMA Conference 2005

01 Beware the Controller is Coming
02 How to Benchmark
03 Estimating
04 Metronos
05 Project Estimating
06 Lesson Learnt from introducing IT Measurement
07 Measuring Security in Framework of PSM
08 Analysis of Defect Data
09 Using Value Stream Maps
10 Seven Key Measures for Software Testing
11 A top-down approach to project tracking
12 Commercially Effective Software Defect Prediction
13 Using Software Measurement to Ensure Compliance
14 The end of Software Engineering in the West

UKSMA Conference 2004

01 Fact Based Metrics
02 Introducing Software Metrics via Benchmarking
03 Gartner Outsourcing Offshore
04 Gartner Database trends and insights
05 Six-Sigma and its application to software development
06 Software Outsourcing
07 Mixed multiple methods