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The complexity assessment is performed to help successfully introduce complexity reduction into a corporation. The purposes of the complexity assessment are as follows:

  1. Evaluate a corporation's current complexity strategy and the implementation of that strategy in current software projects and various systems groups.

  2. Use the results of the assessment to determine a corporation's complexity goals, elements of a complexity program to achieve those goals, and domains in which to focus complexity efforts.

  3. Recommend actions to take to implement its complexity strategy.

Instituting the practice of complexity reduction across a corporation is a large, complex task in itself, especially if the ultimate goal is to practice complexity reduction practices above the project level—that is, across teams, across product lines, and across software groups/organizations. Success requires careful planning, cooperation, and good management practices. To ensure success, a corporation needs to determine how ready, willing, and able it is to practice a complexity-reduction-driven development approach and what actions it needs to take to prepare itself to accomplish its complexity objectives and goals.

The assessment will investigate both technical and management/organizational complexity issues. On the technical side, some important issues include:

  • Identifying and defining core business objects and other kinds of components.

  • Defining guidelines and standards for core business objects (once they exist) and for creating or re-engineering core business objects.

  • Defining the organizational structure and classification scheme for the complexity library or libraries.

On the management/organizational side, issues include:

  • Defining personnel support for core business objects/components.

  • Establishing complexity training programs.

  • Establishing the complexity measurement infrastructure (i.e., complexity metrics and measurements, corporate complexity policy, complexity incentives).

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Autonomic Computing
Autonomic Computing
ISBN: 013144025X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 254
Authors: Richard Murch

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