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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 ...

Software engineering teams have tried all sorts of ways to measure the software development process and developer productivity. Here’s why DORA metrics are becoming the industry standard. For years, ...

Software quality is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only the functional correctness of software systems but also the structural soundness that underpins long‐term maintainability, ...

The purpose of tracking and monitoring software engineering metrics is to assess the current product or process performance, enhance it, and anticipate the quality after the software development ...

When measuring your work and success and seeking a deep understanding of ongoing processes, noting will be more important than knowing your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and how to deal with them.

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 ...

“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 ...

A survey of 500 US and UK software developers conducted by J L Partners has found that 70% of software projects fail to be delivered on time, despite 83% of developers saying delivery performance is ...

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.