Monitor Team Performance and Productivity

The largest opportunity for improving quality and productivity during application development is in eliminating its largest sources of waste: defects and the rework they cause.  In many organizations, 30% to 50% of the development effort is devoted to rework.  These staggering numbers are driven by the fact that defects become 10 times more expensive to fix for each major phase of the software life cycle they slip past.  Under these circumstances, quality largely determines productivity.  One of the most vexing problems in software engineering is measuring the amount of progress made in developing or maintaining a software product.  

 

CAST Makes the Invisible Visible

CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) is a powerful IT operational management platform that gives IT and business executives the visibility and control to significantly improve business productivity and reduce IT costs. CAST has the ability to quantify both quality and progress, rather than just time spent. This unique platform gives you the best visibility over the performance of your software. Productivity without quality is a waste; quality without productivity is costly! Performance is achieved when both quality and productivity increase simultaneously. 

 

Typical Use Cases for CAST AIP

  1. Ongoing Analysis for Continuous Improvement: CAST AIP is seamlessly integrated into build or continuous improvement process based on the teams build schedule.

  2. Structural Quality Gate or Vendor Quality Gate to Assess Deliverables: CAST AIP is embedded in the Quality Assurance (QA) cycle, or the pre-release management process. CAST analysis is performed at every major code drop by the vendor or internal teams, in parallel with QA or User Acceptance Testing.

  3. One-time Assessment for Problem Solving: CAST AIP treats assessment as a small consulting project to provide a custom structural audit for use in troubleshooting, investment or remediation decisions. This is done once or twice annually, or on-demand.

Data-driven Guidance to Monitor Team Performance and Productivity

CAST provides the penetrating insight into the structural quality of an application that is critical to the overall cost of ownership, business responsiveness, and dependability of the applications.

CAST will:

  • Drive desired Application Development team behavior to comply with standards and cutting edge technology
  • Improve time to market, productivity, and customer satisfaction
  • Reduce business risk
  • Prevent defects and achieve quality assurance efficiencies
  • Access online software engineering guidance, including security built into the system development life cycle
  • Manage code reuse
  • Set internal benchmarking while benchmarking against industry
  • Establish vendor performance and compliance metrics
  • Define risk metrics to decide if project should go live
  • Work towards established acceptance criteria and service level agreement measures
  • Achieve maintenance cost reduction over time
  • Determine project estimation and counter-estimation
  • Measure statistics for use in modernization decisions
  • Explain ADM costs with set metrics
  • Receive data for remediation project
  • Identify hot spots to fix troubled projects
  • Locate opportunities for MIPS reduction

CAST AIP provides tangible savings across the IT supply chain. Applying lean principles to application development can lead to at least a 10+%  overall cost and risk reduction, mostly based on waste elimination and driving desired behavior among AD teams.  We have a mature and proven ROI model, and have real world examples of hard dollar savings from major clients who have scientifically measured the benefits from defect prevention