David Rico
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23 years 8 monthsDavid F. Rico is an ROI consultant. He’s worked for NASA, DARPA, DISA, Air Force, Navy, and participated in over 15 SW-CMM® initiatives. He’s been an international keynote speaker, published numerous articles, holds a BS in Computer Science, MSA in Software Engineering, and is pursuing a doctorate in IT. You can reach David at davidfrico.com.
David F. Rico is an ROI consultant. He’s worked for NASA, DARPA, DISA, Air Force, Navy, and participated in over 15 SW-CMM® initiatives. He’s been an international keynote speaker, published numerous articles, holds a BS in Computer Science, MSA in Software Engineering, and is pursuing a doctorate in IT. You can reach David at davidfrico.com.
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| Software Process Improvement (SPI): Modeling Return on Investment (ROI)This article exhibits metrics and models for estimating return on investment (ROI) of software process improvement (SPI). Additionally, this article is designed to show software managers and engineers: 1) how to estimate ROI early, quickly, and accurately, 2) how to maximize ROI using total life cycle costs, and 3) how to estimate ROI for Inspections, Personal Software Process (PSP), Team Software Process (TSP), Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM), ISO 9001, and CMM Integration (CMMI). |
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| Software Process Improvement: Impacting the Bottom Line by Using Powerful Solutions This paper examines several extremely impressive examples of "successful Software Process Improvement (SPI)." The case studies examined in this paper were the result of a notion called "using powerful solutions." Powerful SPI solutions are examined in order to lead the way and encourage others that have not been successful with SPI, or have yet to try SPI, to use high leverage strategies as methods of making quantum leaps forward in bottom line organizational performance. |
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| How to Estimate ROI for Inspections, PSP, TSP, SW-CMM, ISO 9001, and CMMI This article shows software managers and engineers how to estimate ROI early, quickly, and accurately by applying practical top-down methods for rapidly producing authoritative estimates of ROI for popular approaches to SPI. These approaches include: Inspections, Personal Software Process (PSP), Team Software Process (TSP), Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM), ISO 9001, and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). |
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| V & V Lifecycle Methodologies This paper introduces a new notion called Verification & Validation (V&V) Lifecycle Methodologies, examining what V&V is, and expanding its scope to the entire software lifecycle (much beyond traditional methods of software testing). V&V is recast in a much more holistic definition and approach, based on a rapidly maturing V&V discipline, solid empirical data, and recent innovations in metrics-based software quality and reliability management and engineering. |