Software Project Management in Practice

12.2. THE ACIC CLOSURE ANALYSIS REPORT

This section presents the closure analysis report of the ACIC project. First, the report gives some general information about the project. The performance summary that follows shows that the project had an effort overrun of about 19% caused by two major change requests. It also gives the planned versus actual data for team size, start and end dates, quality, productivity, cost of quality, defect injection rate, and defect removal efficiency. In almost all these parameters, the actual performance was very close to the estimated. The actual defect injection rate is about 26% lower than estimated, largely because of the defect prevention activities.

The report gives an overview of the process tailoring done ...