An Instrument for Assessing Software Measurement Programs
Empirical Software Engineering
Perspectives on Improving Software Maintenance
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Measuring where it matters: Determining starting points for metrics collection
Journal of Systems and Software
Implementing Software Measurement Programs in Non Mature Small Settings
Software Process and Product Measurement
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
How Does a Measurement Programme Evolve in Software Organizations?
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
A framework for developing measurement systems and its industrial evaluation
Information and Software Technology
Information and Software Technology
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Success factors for measurement programs as identified in the literature typically focus on the `internals' of the measurement program: incremental implementation, support from management, a well-planned metrics framework, and so on. However, for a measurement program to be successful within its larger organizational context, it has to generate value for the organization. This implies that attention should also be given to the proper mapping of some identifiable organizational problem onto the measurement program, as well as the translation back of measurement results to organizational actions.In this paper, we present a generic process model for measurement-based improvement, which does cover the latter issues as well. We describe a number of common uses for measurement programs in software organizations, from which we derive additional `external' success factors. In addition, we propose a number of activities that organizations can use to implement value-generating measurement programs.