Parasoft SDLC Productivity Audit
Posted on Wed, Nov 24, 2010
--Adam Kolawa, Parasoft co-founder and CEO
As many of you know, I've been talking about the high productivity of Parasoft's own development team for some time now.
About a year ago, Parasoft approached Hamilton Management Consultants, LLC to perform an independent audit of Parasoft's staffing, code managed, process control points, and process efficiency. Basically, we wanted an objective, outside analysis of how our development team's efficiency compares to the industry average.
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results of the independent audit indicate that our internal software development process yields developer productivity 8 to 15 times greater than the industry average. The audit validated that on average, Parasoft's efficiency is 282,457 (lines of code only) per developer versus the estimated industry average of 75,000 lines of code per developer.
Commenting about the audit, Marc Hamilton of Hamilton Management Consultants, LLC (the agency which conducted the independent audit) noted, "Developer efficiency levels for Parasoft are above the industry average... even with new development projects. Our analysis showed that Parasoft productivity increases as projects mature through later phases of the application life cycle. The audit showed conclusively that Parasoft's uniform application of best practices, driven by their internal usage of Parasoft Concerto, delivered greater development efficiency."
Needless to say, everyone at Parasoft is pleased with the audit results. We've spent over 20 years evolving our infrastructure and processes to achieve greater productivity, and we're very proud that the results confirm the value of all of the research and development that is now captured in Parasoft Concerto. .
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Want to read the audit results?
If you'd like to learn more about the audit, I invite you to download this brief SDLC audit report.