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Metrics Characteristics
They are simple, objective, easy to collect, easy to interpret, and hard to misinterpret. Collection can be automated and nonintrusive. Assessment is continuous and non-subjective. They are useful to both management and engineering personnel for communicating progress and quality in a consistent format. Their fidelity improves across the life cycle.
Financial and staffing metrics are easy. They always have been easy. The real problem is to measure technical progress with objectivity.
Staffing Profile
Maturity
Average time between faults.
Metrics Classes
Comment on Metrics
Metrics usually display the effects of problems, not the underlying causes of problems. Reasoning and synthesis are required for solution. Although measuring is useful, it doesnt do any thinking for the decision makers.
Value judgments can not be make by metrics; they must be left to smarter entities such as software project managers.
However, metrics can provide data to help ask the right questions, understand the context, and make objective decisions.