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Neil Fox

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Neil Fox currently serves as the Vice President of Strategic Consulting at Ness Technologies, a global software development company headquartered in Tel Aviv Israel and specializing in bringing software product engineering discipline to companies powered by software. Prior to joining Ness, Neil has provided consulting to a wide variety of companies around the globe, led development teams and won awards at Red Hat, Lawson Software, Management Recruiters International and TRW Inc. (now part of Northrop Grumman).  Neil has been using agile techniques since the mid 1990’s and has worked with more than 20 companies’ to optimize their agile adoption.

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Neil Fox

Neil Fox currently serves as the Vice President of Strategic Consulting at Ness Technologies, a global software development company headquartered in Tel Aviv Israel and specializing in bringing software product engineering discipline to companies powered by software. Prior to joining Ness, Neil has provided consulting to a wide variety of companies around the globe, led development teams and won awards at Red Hat, Lawson Software, Management Recruiters International and TRW Inc. (now part of Northrop Grumman).  Neil has been using agile techniques since the mid 1990’s and has worked with more than 20 companies’ to optimize their agile adoption.

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The Two Metrics that Matter This article is designed to provide specific steps for understanding your development effectiveness. Getting this right will help move your software development group toward being a true business partner, if it is not already.
flow diagram Two Measures of Development Effectiveness: Predictability and Optimization

Nearly every CIO or VP of R&D is struggling to improve their time to market while increase the number of features delivered within stagnant or shrinking budgets. Two objectives of software development teams will address this need are to improve predictability and optimize productivity By combining views of predictability and productivity of the development activity, the team and its stakeholders can quickly and easily tell if the development is on track, if predictability is improving, and if team members are self-aware enough to improve their overall output.