UKSMA Projects

A large part of UKSMA effort goes into organisation of the UKSMA conference and tutorials.

We also have a variety of projects from time to time. Our key current project is the METRONOS project.

METRONOS
UKSMA is looking for people or organizations in the business or academic communities to collaborate in this initiative. If you or your organization would be interested please email metronos@uksma.co.uk or join us on our Linkedin discussion board or PBworks shared workspace where you can also upload documents. to contribute to the METRONOS debate.

METRONOS is designed to provide a channel for existing know how, not to develop new knowledge in software metrics.

METRONOS has two parts:

• to identify, promote and make readily accessible to the software community the best existing measurement know how - data, definitions and methods - to those that need it
• and with that in place to provide qualify users of measurement to three levels – foundation, practitioner and expert
  Measurement is widely used in the software industry but has so far failed to live up to its promise. Software developers find it difficult to get started with measurement, acquiring information or data is difficult and the application of measurement uncertain. Measurement is often mis-applied and mis-understood. Wise managers treat software measurement data with caution.

Why is this, when a mature body of knowledge applying measurement to software and software development exists? The difficulty is accessibility to the software measurement body of knowledge, and difficulty in evaluating its credibility and relevance.

UKSMA’s METRONOS project is intended to remedy this.