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Vendor Management

Management of the acquisition, procurement, and oversight of vendors contracted to deliver software products, including RFP, bid evaluation, and project tracking support.

Leveraging the Power of Historical Data Through the Use of Trend Lines

by Taylor Putnam (May 2017)
This article discusses (1) some of the challenges faced throughout the DoD's initiative to improve its software estimation process by leveraging historical data, (2) the data collection process used, and (3) how one can leverage data to improve software cost estimates. This article was originally published in Crosstalk Magazine.
Leveraging the Power of Historical Data Through the Use of Trend Lines
Management of the acquisition, procurement, and oversight of vendors contracted to deliver software products, including RFP, bid evaluation, and project tracking support.
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5 Core Metrics to Reduce Outsourced Software Project Failure

By Joe Madden
Lawrence Putnam Sr. discovered the “physics” of how engineers build software by successfully modeling the nonlinear relationship between the five core metrics of software: product size, process productivity, schedule duration, effort and reliability. A powerful tool that can be used at each phase of the software acquisition life cycle to help IT program managers make more objective, quantitative decisions.