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Systems Design

6500:643 Analysis and Design of Business Systems

• Ed Yourdon's articles and essays

• Software engineering references posted to comp.software-eng

• Software Quality links

  • View a video of Watts S. Humphrey, "Competing in the Software Age."

  • Pathways to Process Maturity

  • Watts Humphrey.   Pathways to process maturity:  The personal software process and team software process.  CMU –SEI white paper 

• Project Management references

  • Success in e-projects !

  • Project Failures - Case Studies (CIO Magazine)

  • More case studies on project failures

  • COTS software product features (pdf file)

  • COCOMO reference page

  • Core competencies for project managers.   
  • Measuring IT Project Performance.   
  • Estimating Internet and Intranet Development Effort.  
  • Estimating Software Costs  
  • Project Cost Adjustments.  
  • What are Function Points?  
  • Function Point FAQ.  
  • Software Project Management in the 21^st Century.   
  • The COCOMO 2.0 Software Cost Estimation Model,   USC Center for Software Engineering report (pdf file)
  • Will tighter deadlines improve software quality?  

• Development Alternatives

  • Failed ERP implementation at Hershey Foods

  • Classic Outsourcing Blunders

  • The Build / Buy Battle

• Estimating project ROI
  • ROI in the real world
  • What's your ROI http://www.informationweek.com/679/97iuroi.htm
  • Boston beer company http://www.informationweek.com/679/79iuro2.htm
  • Hilton Hotels Reservations Online http://www.informationweek.com/679/79iuro5.htm
  • Productivity Gains from Mobile Computing http://www.informationweek.com/679/79iuro6.htm
• Enterprise Resource Planning
  • The ABC’s of ERP
  • Does ERP build a better business
  • ERP Training Stinks
  • Human Error