Use this research to identify appropriate development metrics for your enterprise. It will help you create a meaningful set of metrics and introduce how these metrics promote improvements in your development process while maintaining alignment with both your business and technical goals. This research will:
- Introduce key metrics.
- Identify how different metrics address trending and process improvements.
- Introduce practical metrics, implementation methods, benefits and risks.
Tracking and recording metrics can produce productivity gains and benefits. Trends can be set and measured, decisions can be made based on tangible results, and resources can be allocated to projects where their talents and skills can be best used through effective metrics collection.