Past Conference Presentations

UKSMA/COSMIC Conference 2011

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

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

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

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

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 Securityin 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 Netrics 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