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conference contribution
posted on 2009-01-23, 12:02 authored by Ray DawsonRay Dawson, Andrew J. NolanBased on the authors’ 43 years of combined
experience in industry, this paper describes a number of
ways to ensure a metrics programme is considered
successful. Experiences of a number of industries provide
lessons on the planning of a metrics programme, the
motivation of employees collecting the metrics,
embedding metrics collection into everyday processes,
presenting the metrics in financial terms and using
metrics that already exist. It is acknowledged that metrics
collected in industry can prove very little, but they are
useful if used with other data or as a pointer for further
investigations.
The lessons learned from these experiences form
guidelines which, if followed, should give valuable
assistance in achieving a successful software metrics
programme.
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