Derek Jones
Derek used to write compilers that translated what people wrote, and then moved on to analysing code to try to work out what they intended to write. These days he is analysing all the publicly available software engineering data.
You can see a draft of his book: Evidence-based Software Engineering here
Talks I've Given
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Analysis of an Agile effort estimation dataset
Featuring Derek Jones
An analysis of over ten years of commercial development using Agile (10,100 unique task estimates made by 22 developers, under 20 project codes). Factors found to influence task implementation effort estimation accuracy included the person making the estimate, the project involved, and the...
agile data machine-learning open-data -
Agile Effort Estimation
Featuring Derek Jones
Within this talk Derek Jones will provide insights into his analysis of 10+ years of commercial development using Agile (10,100 unique task estimates made by 22 developers, under 20 project codes). paper+link to data: http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01621
data project-management data-analytics -
Empirical software engineering will soon be 10 years old.
Featuring Derek Jones
he implementation of software systems contain many awkward truths and companies don't want academics poking around looking for something interesting to publish a paper about. The result has been an almost complete disconnect between academic published research on software engineering and...
software-craftsmanship