Predictive Software Engineering Methodology
- Predictive Software Engineering (PSE) is a framework that addresses bottlenecks of custom software product development. It reconstructs the reliable approach to delivering software development services.
- PSE overcomes the “art” component of programming. It makes software engineering exactly what it was meant to be: an engineering exercise that is precise and predictable.
The PSE framework consists of seven specific concepts. Together they ensure transparency, as well as render the process controllable and predictable in its essence. PSE is a proprietary framework developed by Intetics as result of 30+ years in custom development practices.
01. Meaningful Customer Care
Seamless onboarding process
Customer portal
Governance model:
- Weekly status meeting with manager
- Every other week with director
- Yearly with C-level
- On site visits
Clear escalation path
Early problems discovery
- Proactive project monitor
- Project health report
Deep customer complain analysis
Customer satisfaction control
02. Transparent End-to-End Control
Transparency in organization – Intetics is quite transparent
Transparency outside:
- Governance meetings
- Agile methodologies
- Status reporting
- Tools to track team work
- Audits: project health and proactive monitor
- Video if required, security
- TETRA
Transparency inside:
- Meetings with C-level
- Sync with directors and department
- Sync with team and manager
- HR involvement in team\engineer life
- Team buildings corporate events
03. Proven Productivity
Productivity measurement: productivity = size/effort
doesn’t address customer riskProductivity promotion inside company – develop people skills
Productivity implementation:
- Centers of excellence
- Benchmarking
- Project audits
- TETRA
- Success advertisement
Quality and velocity measurement:
- TETRA
- Software development efficiency KPIs
- Team KPIs
- Individual KPIs
04. Efficient Distributed Teams
Usual complains and risks about distributed teams:
- Communication is not good as in collocated teams
- Quiet participants and sense of being an island
- Physical distance and different time zone
- Socio-cultural difference
Forming distributed team:
- Hiring to distributed team
- Communication solution for distributed team
- Leadership for distributed team
- Rewarding and protecting distributed team
Benefits from distributed team:
- Faster and efficient hiring
- Price
- More order
- Best match
- 24/7 Operation
- More freedom
- Learning about world
- Office cost
05. Disciplined Agile Delivery Process
Standard Agile processes have challenges when you scale them
People invited new processes:
- SAFE – Scaled Agile Framework
- DAD – Disciplined Agile Delivery
- LeSS – Large Scale Scrum
- Etc.
We decided to go with DAD and that’s why:
- Very flexible, tailoring supported
- Focus on architecture and design
- Proven, well documented and flexible
- Clear roles, artifacts and event, medium complexity
06. Measurable Quality Management and Technical Debt Reduction
- Quality is open question for each project, how to measure it
- We use more wide and efficient term for quality: “technical debt”
- TETRA is “Technical Debt Reduction Platform”
- Eight dimensions of software product technical debt:
TETRA™
8 Dimensions
of Quality
CODE USE
- Source Code Quality – assessment of quality of product source code by a number of critical parameters
- Usability, UI & Documentation – evaluation of product user interface, usability and documentation
- Security – valuation of product vulnerabilities according to CVE, CERT, CWE, OSVDB, OWASP, and BID
- Performance – measurement of product performance and load parameters
- Business Logic – audit of how product fits in to business objectives
- Architecture Quality – expert assessment of product software core structure and data model
- Data Quality – check of product resistance to bad data, exception handling, and bad data prevention
- Open Source Code Use – detection of use of open source and other 3rd party code
07. Sound Human Development
Software development is 100% people dependent area of business
We must develop our people and we do following:
Career growth and attestation:
- Individual development plan
- Proprietary performance review system
- Regular reviews
Skills improvement:
- External advice
- Training
- Centers of excellence
Employee benefits:
- Training and certification
- Benefits package
- English courses
- Award winning work environment
Mentors program
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