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Dan Horvath

Dan Horvath

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Dan Horvath, Senior Management Consultant, Q/P Management Group, specializes in project management and software engineering metrics, including function point analysis. Prior to joining Q/P, Mr. Horvath was with General Electric, Federal Mogul Corporation, and Electronic Data Systems Corporation. In his fourteen years with EDS, he held the positions of Senior Systems Engineer and Senior Project Planning Specialist. His most recent position was that of Senior Consultant in EDS' Project Management Consulting Group. In this and prior roles, he was responsible for the project management of several large software development projects, including training, biochemistry and air sampling and attendance applications for General Motors. He employed the use of software engineering metrics on his own projects, and also consulted with other groups to assist in areas such as function point analysis.

Dan Horvath

Dan Horvath, Senior Management Consultant, Q/P Management Group, specializes in project management and software engineering metrics, including function point analysis. Prior to joining Q/P, Mr. Horvath was with General Electric, Federal Mogul Corporation, and Electronic Data Systems Corporation. In his fourteen years with EDS, he held the positions of Senior Systems Engineer and Senior Project Planning Specialist. His most recent position was that of Senior Consultant in EDS' Project Management Consulting Group. In this and prior roles, he was responsible for the project management of several large software development projects, including training, biochemistry and air sampling and attendance applications for General Motors. He employed the use of software engineering metrics on his own projects, and also consulted with other groups to assist in areas such as function point analysis.

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Agile Development and Software Metrics

Dan Horvath explores useful metrics that utilize function point analysis (FPA) that you can apply to agile projects. Dan shows how to measure productivity and quality as well as how to estimate for agile projects.
Function Point Analysis Example: Hands on with Agile Development

In an earlier article, Dan Horvath explored some history and definitions of agile and how Function Point Analysis (FPA) can be used in the measurement of agile projects. Dan emphasizes that the definition of the project is critical to this process. In this article, Dan demonstrates the use of FPA in agile development through a hands-on example.
Function Point Analysis and Agile Methodology Function Point Analysis and Agile Methodology

Dan Horvath explains how function point analysis (FPA), in combination with other metrics, provides reliable and accurate measures that may be invaluable to an agile development organization.