Software application developers should focus on three key areas during their process lifecycle

Software application developers should focus on three key areas during their process lifecycle

By jonturk | August 27, 2010

For softwaredevelopment professionals andhosted software designers- either working individually or as part of larger teams making sure every stage of a development lifecycle is done correctly and in accordance with time and budget projections is important. More often than not, development failures can be attributed lack of focus on progress in each individual stage and failure to pay attention to issue tracking protocol.

A recent article from Computerworld UK, however, cites three key performance indicators (KPIs) that developers or teams should look out for during their processing in order to measure progress productivity, quality, duration.

On the surface, measuring productivity is easy to conduct, as units can simply log how many lines or sections of code are being produced each hour, day or week. Determining the quality of a project can be done by taking the percentage of defects that have been removed during the software and gamedevelopment process and seeing how many remain at that stage of the project. Teams or developers can calculate duration by seeing how many staff members are required to complete a project within a given period of time. Ideally, the more people involved with a process, the less time it takes to complete; however, the article states this is not always the case. At a certain point, some areas of a project simply require more money and patience instead of workers. This is also dependent upon the type of development method used, which is especially true with agile development.

Once developers calculate these three important KPIs, they should compare their results to normative industry benchmarks to determine their processing is indeed efficient. Developers should first determine how long it takes them or their team to produce a certain number of project points per person per month. After accumulating these statistics, the developers should then compare with industry norms to get a better read of where they stand.

Since other companies might take different approaches to measure and determine their performance metrics, it is important for developers to define the parameters of those norms they compare with such as the type of market the comparative company is in, as well as the type and location of its project.

With a significant number of software development projects experiencing failure in 2010, it's important for companies to pay attention to all projections through each stage of a process cycle. Using Computerworld's PQD model can go a long way toward accomplishing this goal

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