Training
Developing and Deploying a Measurement Roadmap
A Custom Set of Training Sessions
Business Driven measurement principles that work
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" -
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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.
Helping Your Business Measure What is Important
Establishing an effective and well focused software measurement program is critical to the success of long term software process improvement strategies. Learn how a successful measurement program can support the organization’s business goals. Understand the key measures that must be identified and then collected and analyzed in order to provide value to the organization. Once in place in the organization an effective measurement program will help to quantify improvements in productivity and quality. Additionally it can be used to establish internal performance targets or to set service levels necessary to govern outsourcing arrangements.
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
Who Should be involved
IT Managers, Measurement Specialists, QA Managers
ROADMAP OUTLINE
For more details, download DCG Measurement Roadmap Process Descriptions Fact Sheet...