Open Issues in Empirical SE

Q1: Generality of the Microsoft conclusions?

• See "Myths in Software Engineering: From the Other Side" by Nachiappan Nagappan, TAPS'10
• A list of 10 conclusions made from Msoft research
• The validity of these, for sites outside of Msoft, is an open issue. 

Q2: How to support the following kinds of business intelligence?

• Click to enlarge (from http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=144543):

See also: http://www.slideshare.net/tom.zimmermann/analytics-for-software-development

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Other approaches to business intelligence:

• Watch my recent talk:  (250MB) : http://menzies.us/empiricalSEversion2.wmv
• Read my recent talk  (7MB) : http://unbox.org/wisp/var/timm/10/swinburne/bi-v5.pptx
• Or see below