What are the impacts of using COSMIC in an organization and what benefits can you expect, as presented on the Congreso Nacional de Medición y Estimación de Software in Mexico City.

1. IMPACTO Y BENEFICIOS DEL
USO DE COSMIC
Congreso Nacional de Medición y Estimación de Software ‘15
Frank Vogelezang
COSMIC President

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Camarón que se duerme

3. IMPACTS AND BENEFITS
OF USING COSMIC
Congreso Nacional de Medición y Estimación de Software ‘15
Frank Vogelezang
COSMIC President

4. Frank Vogelezang
1992 MSc
1997 Full-time IT
1999 Software Project Estimation
2002 Measurement Practices Committee
2009 Counting Practices
2010 Pricing Office

5. Agenda
 COSMIC
 The organization
 The method
 Impacts of using the COSMIC method
 Benefits of the COSMIC method

6. The organization
COSMIC
ORGANIZATION

7. The COSMIC organization
 Open – All documentation is free
 Voluntary – No-one earns on the method
 Democratic – Everyone is heard

8. The COSMIC organization
Executive
Committee
5 members
Measurement
Practices Comm.
12 members
Certification
Committee
1 member
Benchmarking
Committee
2 members
Marketing
Committee
1 member
Interactive
Media Comm.
2 members
International
Advisory Council
26 countries

9. International Advisory Council
26 countries
Only vendor for Training,
Consultancy, Certification
and advice on COSMIC

10. Measurement Practices Comm.
 Maintain the Principles and Rules of the
COSMIC method
 Collect, analyse and resolve issues related to
the method
 Develop products to support the use of
COSMIC
 Approve all final versions of the Measurement
Manual, Guidelines and Case Studies
 Ensure these documents conform to the
ISO/IEC 19761 international standard

11. The method
COSMIC
METHOD

12. COSMIC – Introduction
 Based on principles, not rules
 A clearly defined measurement unit
 Not derived from effort
 Not derived from a specific architecture
 Designed to comply with ISO 14143

13. COSMIC – Introduction
4 Principles
3 Phases

14. The 3 Phases of COSMIC
Strategy – Mapping – Measurement
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15. The 4 basic principles
1. Software functionality consists of
Functional Processes
2. These consist of sub-processes that
either move or manipulate data
3. Each Data Movement moves a group of
data describing a single thing
4. Data manipulation is assumed to be
accounted for by the data movement

16. 1. Functional Process

17. 2. Sub-processes
Functional
Process
sub-processes
Data
Manipulation
Data
Movement

18. 3. Data Movements

19. 4. Data Manipulation
Functional
Process
sub-processes
Data
Manipulation
Data
Movement

20. Documentation structure

21. of using the COSMIC method
IMPACTS
IMPACT

22. Learn the Method

23. Build up Size/Effort Data
34.76 M
500,000
bricks
4 days
6 people
May 25, 2014
Budapest
legotorony.hu

24. Culture Change

25. A taste for more

26. of the COSMIC method
BENEFITS
BENEFITS

27. Widely applicable
Designed to measure business application,
real-time, and infrastructure software in any
layer at any level of decomposition.

28. Early or Rapid Sizing
Number of approaches available to
determine size in a rapid way, or at an early
stage (or) with incomplete requirements

29. Big, bigger, biggest . . .
Continuous size scale with no upper bound

30. Different possible sizes
Allows measurement of different sizes for
any one piece of software as ‘seen’ by
different ‘functional users’ of the software

31. Architecture independent
Not only bespoke development, but also
COTS datawarehouse

32. Maintenance included
Both new development and enhancement
are counted with the standard method

33. Easy to learn

34. Well documented

35. Well supported

36. Agenda
 COSMIC
 The organization
 The method
 Impacts of using the COSMIC method
 Benefits of the COSMIC method

37. Recap
 COSMIC is an open community that
operates world-wide
 COSMIC is based on fundamental
software engineering principles and is a
fully open source method
 You need training and benchmark data to
get started
 You become part of an innovative
international network

38. ANSWERS!
QUESTIONS?
Q&A

39. www.cosmic-sizing.org