Benchmarking

Leaders lead with information/data at hand! Participate in our Benchmarking exercises to enable your leaders to get the right data on industry benchmarks... Want to know more? Go through this page and contact us for further details.

HYDSPIN Benchmarking - An Initiative by HYDSPIN Benchmarking Special Interest Group [HBSIG]

HBSIG Mission

• “To provide industry benchmarks  through analysis of repositories of software engineering measures and processes that are standardized, verified, recent and representative of current technologies.”

Principles of the HBSIG

• Independence
• Data integrity
• Submitter anonymity
• Practitioner driven
• Practitioner accessible
• Not-for-profit

How does the HBSIG work?

• Collects data
• Analyses data
• Packages research results
• Shares knowledge through products and services

Data Benchmarking - Data Collection Process

• Anonymity and security procedures
• Validation procedures
• Repository entry
• Rating comments
• Re-submission
• Re-rating and project/application update

HBSIG customers/Target Audience

• Management
• Require metrics data to support their business decisions (including estimating, outsourcing, off-shoring, benchmarking and/or migration to new technologies)
• IT providers, Project Managers & Leads
  
• Use the HBSIG data for estimation and benchmarking and to validate project deliverables and cost when tendering
• Software metrics practitioners
• Use the HBSIG data for benchmarking, sizing and reality checking
• Academic researchers and educational institutes
• Use the HBSIG data to support their teaching and for research work

Benefits of submitting projects for benchmarking

• Receive latest benchmarking report and previous archives
• Ability to benchmark your projects against others in the repository
• Get to know the internal practices with the industry/organization specific practices
• Understand better practices - Why better and How much better ?
• What good practices are being used now or can be anticipated.
• How can their practices be incorporated or adapted for use in our organization.
• Understand challenges and transformations of various organizations
• Mutual learning & networking for participants.

Process Benchmarking

• In an endeavor to bring in continuous learning among the organizations, HYDSPIN initiated the journey of ‘Process Benchmarking' on various topics in IT & IT Enabled Services, which will be done within strict limits of confidentiality agreements and copyrights.

Sample charts from Benchmarking Reports