Products from Reifer Consultants LLC

BENCHMARKS

Agile Benchmarks

Reifer Consultants offers software productivity, cost and quality benchmarking reports that have been prepared by analyzing 500 completed projects that used agile software development methods.

Traditional Benchmarks

Reifer Consultants offers software productivity, cost and quality benchmarking reports that have been prepared by analyzing 1,500 completed projects that used traditional software development methods.

AGILE COLLECTION

PDF — Quantitative Analysis of Agile Methods Survey (2018): Eight Major Findings
$19.00

Quantitative Analysis of Agile Methods Survey (2018): Eight Major Findings

This report summarizes the 8 major findings identified by analyzing 5,000 completed agile projects that were generated by 500 organizations worldwide.

**DATE:** Aug 2018

**PAGES:** 15

PDF — Agile Introduction: Are You a Laggard?
$9.00

This report concludes that agile methods are the primary approach for developing software in the world and those trailing in adoption are laggards.

**DATE**: Nov 2017

**PAGES**: 7

PDF — Agile Software Quality – A Quantitative Assessment
$39.00

This report summarizes an assessment of the agile software quality. It is based on results from over 2,000 agile software projects to develop its findings and recommendations.

**DATE**: Nov 2017

**PAGES**: 33

PDF — Agile Test Metrics
$19.00

This report develops a shopping list of agile metrics for use during software testing.

**DATE:** Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 18

PDF — Size Estimating Approaches for Use with Agile Methods
$19.00

This report summarizes an assessment of five approaches that can be used to size software projects being developed using agile methods.

**DATE:** Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 14

PDF — Cognitive Computing and Software Development Automation: A Bright Future
$25.00

This report summarizes how cognitive computing technology can be used to automate software development now and in the future.

**DATE:** Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 23

PDF — Agile Scaling Findings and Productivity Statistics for Larger Enterprises
$19.00

This report summarizes the productivity achieved as agile at scale methods are adopted, spread and institutionalized mainly in large enterprises

**DATE:** Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 13

PDF — Agile Rework, Waste and Technical Debt
$25.00

This report provides an overview of lean, Kanban and Kaizen techniques and then discusses how they can be used to reduce rework, waste and technical debt.

**DATE:** Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 20

PDF — Agile Visibility and Control
$25.00

This report provides guidance on how to maintain visibility into and control over agile developments.

**DATE:** Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 16

PDF — Agile Metrics and Measurement
$25.00

This report provides a shopping list of metrics that can be used to gain visibility into and control over agile projects.

**DATE:** Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 20

PDF — Agile Estimating: Straightforward and Simple
$25.00

This report provides readers with an estimating procedure for use in sizing, time-boxing and estimating software cost for agile efforts.

**DATE**: Nov 2017

**PAGES:** 22

ESTIMATION COLLECTION

PDF — The Cost of Software/System Integration & Test
$25.00

This report summarizes methods used to estimate the cost of software/systems integration & test. This testing is conducted to qualify systems composed of hardware and software.

**DATE**: Nov 2017

**PAGES**: 20

PDF — Firmware Estimation
$19.00

This report recommends an estimating approach for firmware that are held in ROM, PROM, EPROM, and flash memories and programs that are stored in FPGAs.

**DATE**: Nov 2017

**PAGES**: 14

WEBINARS

BOOKS

The following books, by Don Reifer, are available on popular bookseller web sites like Amazon:

Agile Software Quality: Fundamentals, Amazon, 2018 BUY NOW!
Agile Software Quality: Advanced, Amazon, 2018 BUY NOW!
Software War Stories: Case Studies in Software Management, Wiley/IEEE, 2013. BUY NOW!
Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice, Microsoft Press, 2011. BUY NOW!
Software Maintenance Success Recipes, Auerbach Publishers, 2011. BUY NOW!
Software Management Tutorial, 7th Edition, Wiley/IEEE, 2006. BUY NOW!
Making the Software Business Case, Addison-Wesley, 2001. BUY NOW!
Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II, with Barry Boehm, Prentice Hall, 2000. BUY NOW!
Practical Software Reuse, Wiley, 1997. BUY NOW!
Software Acquisition Management, with John Marciniak, Wiley, 1990. BUY NOW!