Abstract: When organization starts its way to high-maturity CMMI levels or just has strong intention to quantitativly understand software development process effectiveness and ROI of process improvement it’s necessary to use appropriate Statistical Process Control tool aligned both with organizational calture an processes as well as with organizational business objectives.

Luxofts SPC tool is a MS-Access based application for support and automation of all SPC-specific activities of. It’s integrated with Microsoft Excel-based measurement forms used in projects to collect data, analyze causes of variation, test stability, report on all levels and maintain statistical baselines.

The presentation will discuss the creation of a Luxoft proprietary SPC tool and how it is used to collect, analyze and reporting quantitatively managed indicators the easy way.

It gives an understanding of how:

  1. provide statistical data analysis to prove statistical hypotheses and define statistically proven data sets
  2. calculate SPC indicators and generate performance baselines for the organization
  3. prepare statistical data for quantitative project management.