The book Software Development Metrics by Dave Nicolette explores how to use metrics to track and guide software development. It explains how different development approaches and process models, like ...

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Metrics change slowly. This is especially true in R&D and product development, and for many reasons. New business processes take years to evolve and become the new normal. Then, new measures get ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Metrics for product development were quite simple in the 1980s. Companies measured R&D spending, counted their patents, ...

How do development teams sustain high levels of productivity while others struggle? Productivity in development teams isn’t a buzzword; it’s the heart and soul of successful projects and organizations ...

Developing and implementing consistent, actionable performance metrics for your Application Development and Maintenance and Testing program is one of the best ways to ensure you get value for money.

“What gets measured,” the saying goes, “gets managed.” And if you want to change the way an organization goes about pursuing its goals, one way to do so is to change the metrics it tracks. The Defense ...

RFG believes that IT executives can benefit from a comprehensive metrics initiative that facilitates improvements in quality and, to a lesser extent, productivity. Although the software industry has ...

Measuring success of software products has always been a difficult task. But, at least in a waterfall delivery model, there were certain metrics that were fairly easy to track and report. Forrester ...