Software Development Metrics

Software Development Metrics is a handbook for anyone who needs to track and guide software development and delivery at the team level, such as project managers and team leads. New development practices, including "agile" methodologies like Scrum, have redefined which measurements are most meaningful and under what conditions you can benefit from them. This practical book identifies key characteristics of organizational structure, process models, and development methods so that you can select the appropriate metrics for your team. It describes the uses, mechanics, and common abuses of a number of metrics that are useful for steering and for monitoring process improvement. The insights and techniques in this book are, based entirely on field experience.

What's Inside

• Identify the most valuable metrics for your team and process
• Differentiate "improvement" from "change"
• Learn to interpret and apply the data you gather
• Common pitfalls and anti-patterns

Table of Contents
• Making metrics useful
• Metrics for steering
• Metrics for improvement
• Putting the metrics to work
• Planning predictability
• Reporting outward and upward