Patent ID: 8595706
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for analyzing the performance of software development process activities, the method implemented on a computer system having a processor unit and comprising: selecting a process activity to be analyzed; determining a metric describing the performance of the selected process activity; collecting a number of metric data on the base of the selected process activities performed; analyzing the collected metric data and assessing the performance of the software development process activity by: wherein the collected metric data are each transformed into transformed metric data, adopted from control charts produced by the first SPC technique, comprising a distance from a centerline defined by a mean value of the metric data, wherein the metric data are normalized in units of an expected variation due to Poisson effects, wherein empirical natural process limits derived from a moving average of the transformed metric data are used to determine upper and lower control limits, adopted from control charts produced by the second SPC technique and wherein the transformed metric data in relation to the upper and lower control limits are used to assess the performance of the process.