Software Development Value Identification

Measurement Roadmap

Are you measuring much but know little? Are you measuring little but not sure what you know? Frustrated that you are not sure if your IT dollars are giving you the best IT value?

DCG’s Measurement Roadmap Process starts with technical and business goals of your organization and links them to information-driven measurement processes that yield meaningful decision support data. The guidance our measures and metrics provide represent the best practices used by measurement professionals industry wide.

"What gets measured gets done; what gets recognized gets done even better" - Unknown

This is designed to provide software management leaders with a structured process to develop a measurement roadmap inclusive of metrics and measures that are linked to the strategic and mission-critical goals of the business or organization. The outcomes include a strategic plan and tactical measures focused on enabling the organization to manage software development using objective data of actual progress and value delivered.

Today’s enterprises are very large and complex therefore the roadmap process has to be applied to a reasonable segment of the business. This process is suitable for any IT domain such software engineering, data center operations, networks and networking and communications.  Participants will learn:

• The value and benefits of measurement to the organization
• Key steps to successful measurement and metrics
• Identification of key strategic and tactical indicators for management
• A model of interactive cooperation with stakeholders
• What gaps exist between current measurements and future goal driven measurements
• An implementation strategy for a specific business domain that is time-boxed

For more details, download DCG Measurement Roadmap Process Descriptions Fact Sheet...

To read about field research data on the use of measurements, click on the report below...

Performance Effects of Measurement and Analysis: Perspectives from CMMI High Maturity Organizations and Appraisers. This report describes results from two recent surveys conducted by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to collect information about the measurement and analysis activities of software systems development organizations. Click to read more...

 

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