How could you influence a project without measuring it?
September 27th, 2009By Maria Johnsen
When a endeavor is in process and do not have any problems, measurement is necessary. How could you determine if your project is not in dilemma if you do not measure its health?
Measurement is compulsory for assessing the condition of your projects, procedures, products and resources. For the reason that you by no means know what might happen in a project. That is why it is required to record and record a projects both good and bad characteristics. You see we must control our project and not just run them. How can you control a project without measuring it?
There are many reasons to consider project measurements; as a result the measurement will be a quality engineering activity. It is not sufficient if you only measure your software, you should be specific in what your managers need to know and what your end-users need to be informed.
For instance managers must to know:
- The projects cost: You need to know the time and attempt involved in different processes that compromise your software production
- Staffs productivity: You should find out how long does it take for your employees (programmers) to design it, program it and test it.
- Coding quality: You should measure software quality such as: registering problems, failures, changes and predict whether the project will be successful. You should set target for your software processes
- User satisfaction: One must to measure all steps that have been implemented in project according to users requirement. You should measure usability, reliability, response time and software performance
- Improvement factors: You should measure the time it takes to perform every development activity and calculate the benefits of each part in order to find out whether or not the benefit is worth the project cost
What engineers need to know when developing a project?
- Testing : An engineer should examine each process to find out objective ways and processs functionality. For instance: how to find out if a system is reliable and find out its mean time to failure must be greater than 16 elapsed hours of CPU time.
- Finding faults: Measuring number of faults in the use case, design, code and testing plan. You should trace back to their root causes
- Process goals: characteristic of processes that tell you whether you have met the standards and met the process goal
- Predicting the program performance in future: To measure future maintenance problems. By investigating current processes, you will be able to future problems.
Why we do measure software? We must to understand, control and develop the program. You see measurement is important in three steps: first, we will recognize what is happening during our software development and maintenance. By establishing the base line we will be able to set goals for our product in order to predict its future behavior. Second, Measuring software allows us to control it and understand its goals and find out whether we can meet those goals or not. Third, software measurement helps us to improve processes for example: we can augment the number of type of design we do based on measurement of software quality and design quality.
In the end software measurement is necessary to improve software quality and usability. As a result users will be satisfied and come back for more assignments.
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