Question D) What other approaches could be used to measure relative software productivity in these companies

*Typo in question D). Meant to say 3 companies, not 2.

Three organisations are involved in the production of software and have been measuring their project development performance over a period of 5 years. Each organisation made an estimated timescale for each project The results are shown in Table 1. Year 2 Organisation Year 1 Company A 45 Company B 79 Company C 20 50 98 22 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 45 50 80 95 96 95 23 14 22 Table 1 Percentage of projects completed within time schedule with all features implemented The EQF for organisation A is 10.5 and for organisation B is 2.2 and organisation C is 8.8 (a) Discuss in detail what conclusions you can draw from this data if any about the performance of each of these organisation in terms of success in delivering and managing software projects. [15 Marks] (b) What technique could you use to determine what if any bias was present in the estimation approach used by each of the companies? [6 Marks] (c) How would estimation bias effect the figures shown in Table 1? [4 Marks] (d) What other approach could you use to try and accurately measure the relative software productivity of these 2 companies? [5 Marks] Three organisations are involved in the production of software and have been measuring their project development performance over a period of 5 years. Each organisation made an estimated timescale for each project The results are shown in Table 1. Year 2 Organisation Year 1 Company A 45 Company B 79 Company C 20 50 98 22 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 45 50 80 95 96 95 23 14 22 Table 1 Percentage of projects completed within time schedule with all features implemented The EQF for organisation A is 10.5 and for organisation B is 2.2 and organisation C is 8.8 (a) Discuss in detail what conclusions you can draw from this data if any about the performance of each of these organisation in terms of success in delivering and managing software projects. [15 Marks] (b) What technique could you use to determine what if any bias was present in the estimation approach used by each of the companies? [6 Marks] (c) How would estimation bias effect the figures shown in Table 1? [4 Marks] (d) What other approach could you use to try and accurately measure the relative software productivity of these 2 companies? [5 Marks]