What Makes Measuring Software So Hard?

  • Authors:
  • Stan Rifkin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Implementing software measurement is difficult if it fails to align with an organization's market strategy. Using Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema's The Discipline of Market Leaders as a guide, the author shows how traditional software measurement, like traditional software process improvement, is misaligned with two of the three basic strategies-customer intimacy and product innovativeness. Measurement initiatives can succeed if you understand your organization's strategic objectives and then tailor your measurement practices to fit.