SPR offers tools that enhance our internal assessment service delivery, as well as our customers’ requirements for formal and accurate software sizing and estimation. Our vision for software metrics and measurement is best summarized by our founder and Chief Scientist, Capers Jones, in his landmark book Applied Software Measurement:
" . . . the need for accurate measurements of software productivity and quality is directly related to the overall economic importance of software to industry, business, and government. That means that measurement is now a mainstream software activity, and it is one that is on the critical path to corporate and national success."
Launched in 1997, KnowledgePLAN was the first powerful, knowledge-based software estimation tool to combine project estimation and scheduling in a flexible environment. KnowledgePLAN quickly creates and refines detailed project plans for seamless export to Microsoft Project or other enterprise project management systems.
SPR KnowledgePLAN® is a software tool designed to help you plan software projects. With KnowledgePLAN® you can effectively size your projects and then estimate work, resources, schedule, and defects. You can even evaluate project strengths and weaknesses to determine their impact on quality and productivity.
KnowledgePLAN® provides a complete and rational view of all tradeoffs among features, schedules, quality and costs. You can explore the cost/value implications of additional resources, more powerful languages, development tools, improved methods and other technical changes. You can also track milestones, schedules, resources, actual work effort, and defects found.
KnowledgePLAN® provides a bi-directional interface with project management applications to create an integrated, full life-cycle solution. For convenience, some project management functions such as critical path scheduling are offered.
To register for a demonstration and evaluation copy of KnowledgePLAN, visit our registration page HERE.
SPR is proud to sell and support the best used function point repository tool: SCOPE from Total Metrics is the best-of-breed solution for a function point repository and graphical reporting tool, and is used globally by our customers, associates, and partners.
Designed by Total Metrics the industry experts in functional sizing SCOPE is the first product to bring software functional sizing into the domain of project governance and software portfolio asset management. Project managers can use SCOPE to model and quantify of their software project, for input into project estimates and client scope negotiations. SCOPE is the only FP measurement software to provide a quantified audit trail of requirements changes and to quantify rework, and it imports all FP counts from FPW and EXCEL.
SCOPE has state-of-the-art user interface and reporting make it quick and easy to enter quick function point estimates or detailed exacting counts that cross reference all data elements and processes.
- Enables accurate project sizing using IFPUG 4.2 function point analysis
- Quantitatively tracks the size of change requests over the life of a project or application
- Monitors Project scope to avoid budget blowouts
- Collects project data for benchmarking with the ISBSG repository
- Enables quantitative asset management of your entire software portfolio
- Takes the guesswork out of project size before you start building
- Over 40 different management metrics reports - Online Preview - MS WORD - MS Excel
The latest version of SCOPE works seamlessly with SPR KnowledgePLAN 4 (versions 4.2 and later)
To register for a demonstration and evaluation copy of SCOPE, visit our registration page HERE.
We have performed hundreds of assessments on Fortune 1000 and government organizations worldwide, making this methodology an industry standard. Continuing research by SPR Chief Scientist Capers Jones keeps the base of comparative information and analysis of methods fresh and applicable to modern development environments. The SPR Knowledge Base is a key component in our estimation tool. Specific advantages of SPR and KnowledgePLAN include:
- A large credible knowledge base populated with over 12,000 software projects from IT, systems, commercial, and government environments
- Over a 20 years of experience in the software assessment market supporting many Fortune 1000 and software organizations every part of the world
- An automated benchmarking process that utilizes SPR KnowledgePLAN® to collect, aggregate, and analyze an organization's software projects
- An assessment approach where SPR collaborates with the client to collect project data and subsequently validates it for accuracy
- A modeling feature that quantifies productivity and quality gains resulting from improvement recommendations
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