The book Software Development Metrics by Dave Nicolette explores how to use metrics to track and guide software development. It explains how different development approaches and process models, like ...

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Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Software engineering teams have tried all sorts of ways to measure the software development process and developer productivity. Here’s why DORA metrics are becoming the industry standard. For years, ...

“What gets measured,” the saying goes, “gets managed.” And if you want to change the way an organization goes about pursuing its goals, one way to do so is to change the metrics it tracks. The Defense ...

I have observed that many lessons from software development experience can be applied to management of software development teams and that the opposite is also true — many lessons from management of ...

Historically, many of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) major IT acquisition programs have taken longer than expected to develop or failed to deliver the desired value. In April 2016, to ...

RFG believes that IT executives can benefit from a comprehensive metrics initiative that facilitates improvements in quality and, to a lesser extent, productivity. Although the software industry has ...

The Defense Department is employing a version of the agile development methodology for software on the F-35 fighter jet program, but according to a government watchdog report, delays, defects and a ...