For product-development managers, one trend is unmistakably clear: Unless you can measure R&D activities, you cannot improve profitability in a planned fashion. Only by measuring development processes ...

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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Despite the challenges, it’s in an organization’s best interests to measure and adjust the user experience throughout the entire development lifecycle. One of the most overlooked aspects of DevOps ...

Metrics change slowly. This is especially true in R&D and product development, and for many reasons. New business processes take years to evolve and become the new normal. Then, new measures get ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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 ...

Ilya Semin is the founder and CEO of Datanyze, the all-in-one sales intelligence platform. Sales development teams have become a vital part of a B2B organization’s overall sales force. Today, more ...

Inspired by the recent frank reflection by UNCHR’s amazing Innovation Team on designing metrics for humanitarian innovation, we would like to share lessons we learned, challenges we are addressing and ...