Process Improvement Results

System Growth: The organization has gone from maintaining over 1.5 million LOC in 1993, to over 11.5 million LOC today. This has been accomplished without any increase in staffing. As the process has matured, process efficiencies and new technology have provided the increased maintenance ability. One of these process efficiencies is advanced reuse of components.

Size Stability: The organization's ability to accurately predict the size of the projects at the beginning of development has improved 250%. As most companies realize, this ability is critical in estimating staffing and other resource needs.

Software Quality: Defects found during formal testing have decreased by over 80%.

• Defects found on previous version = 2881 LOC = 2,050,739 for a rate of 1.40 defects per KLOC.
  
• Defects found on most recent version = 457 LOC = 1,966,702 for a rate of .23 defects per KLOC.
  
• Decrease in defect rate = 83.57% (This provides engineers time to do valuable follow-on efforts, instead of concentrating on rework and retest.)
  

Productivity: The organization's LOC/Hr rate has increased by 48%. This is even more significant when considering the increased quality.