What do you get from the Service?
The deliverable of the QAI Benchmarking service is a report detailing the following:

• Executive summary listing recommended action items for management to initiate / further software process improvement within the organization.

It also provides the top management with one measure (called process productivity index, PI) which is a composite of many SEI^SM core measures like size, effort, schedule as well as soft factors like technology/tool familiarity, management influence and so on. PI becomes a single measure for top management to keep track of software process improvement.

An increase of Productivity Index, PI by one point leads to 10% reduction in schedule and 30% reduction in effort.

• Detailed analysis of the project data supporting the recommendations.

For organizations that submit multiple projects, the analysis also looks at the possibility of drawing organization specific trend lines that can serve as a future reference database for other projects. This, however, depends on the value of the coefficient of correlation from the curve fitting exercise.

• Metric program
  Organizations that avail of the annual subscription service will be assisted by QAI in setting up of the metric program for Benchmarking.

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