The Tools Group practice sets up a group that's responsible for gathering intelligence about, evaluating, coordinating the use of, and disseminating new tools within an organization. A Tools Group allows for a reduced amount of trial and error and minimizes the number of development groups that will be handicapped by the use of inadequate software tools. Virtually any organization that has more than one software project running at a time can set up a Tools Group, though in some cases the "group" might consist of a single person working only part time.
Efficacy
Potential reduction from nominal schedule: | Good |
Improvement in progress visibility: | None |
Effect on schedule risk: | Decreased Risk |
Chance of first-time success: | Good |
Chance of long-term success: | Very Good |
Major Risks
Bureaucratic overcontrol of information about and deployment of new tools.
Major Interactions and Trade-Offs
The same basic structure can be used by software-reuse and software-engineering process groups.
For more on tools groups, see Tools group in Productivity-Tool Acquisition.
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