Centre for Software Innovation

Software sizing and estimation is typically of the most challenging and subjective task undertaken by software industry managers. Peter will help us to better understand the nature of the task and how to minimise the subjectivity involved in undertaking it. Peter will draw on his 35 years experience in the industry including his establishment and leadership of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group a not-for-profit organisation which has as its mission “To improve the management of IT resources by both business and government, through the provision and exploitation of public repositories of software engineering knowledge that are standardised, verified, recent and representative of current technologies”.

Peter R Hill

MBA (Technology Management)

Peter Hill is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group, (ISBSG). He has been in the Information Services industry for more than thirty five years with broad experience covering a number of industries working in both Australia and New Zealand.

For 12 years from 1982 Peter was the Executive Director and a major shareholder of an Australian Software Company. He had responsibility for managing and marketing the company’s software development business, direction of the company's internal quality programme, external quality consulting and training services and the “Q/Plan” Software Quality Management product development. He was responsible for the company’s dual certification to AS 3563.1 and AS 3901, (now ISO9001).

Since selling his interest in the software company, Peter has headed up the ISBSG, a not-for-profit organisation with a membership of thirteen countries. The ISBSG has the world’s largest open repository of software project history data (www.isbsg.org). The ISBSG analyses its project history data to report on the major factors that impact software projects as well as providing benchmarks and project estimation tools & techniques.

Peter has been a speaker at conferences in Australia, China, Denmark, Finland, India, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the UK. He has had a number of articles published, covering key aspects of the Information Services industry. He is a member of the China Software Process Improvement Network International Advisory Committee, a past Chairman, Secretary and Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.

Peter has compiled and edited five books for the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group: “Software Project Estimation”, “The Benchmark Release 6”, “The Benchmark Release 8”, “Practical Project Estimation” (two editions) and “The Software Metrics Compendium”.

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