Presentation highlighting th importance of setting up code inventory database and provide some guidance on how to setup such a database and load data.

1. Code Inventory: Tracking the Investment in Software Name: Nick Harrison Title: Software Architect

2. Making the Case Software: Important Investment not Tracked Current State not known Complicates Future Initiatives Without Good Metrics: Difficult to Make ROI Proposition

3. Key Questions to Answer What is the Current State Are We Moving in the Right Direction Can we tie Software Changes to Other Business Metrics

4. Modeling Software Gathering Meta Data Importing the Data Providing Reports

5. Sources of Meta Data Reflection Reflector Data Dictionary Software Metrics

6. Modeling the Data NameSpaceHierarchyDimension MethodReferenceFact MethodMetricFact SQLDimension SQLReferenceFact SQLMetricFact

7. Sample Module Schema

8. Sample SQL Schema

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