Category Archives: Software Metrics

• The Good, The Bad, and The Metrics

  Last week Mike Lyles & Jay Philips presented the “The Good, The Bad, and The Metrics” at STPCon Spring 2014. Below is the info from the presentation and the corresponding slides: Session Info: Has your organization ever considered replacing a tester that did not write, for example, 15 test cases per day? Is the testing […]

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  I Am An Industry Standard Metric So You Must Implement Me

  I’m sure there have been tons of times that you’ve heard “It’s an industry standard so we must implement this” or “I was at a conference the other week and they were talking about best practices so we need to implement it this way”. We’ve all heard those sayings multiple times and we just cringe […]

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• 6 Key Steps In Creating Metrics That Matter

  There are lots of whitepapers, presentations & blogs out on the Internet that tell you to create one metric over another metric.  It’s great to know about the variety of different metrics available but do you really need all of them? This presentation reduces the complexity to 6 key steps in creating actionable metrics that […]

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  Quit Focusing On Vanity Metrics

  You know how it goes, projects get put into queue, hours are logged, code is created, defects are logged, etc. There’s data being entered/changed in a variety of systems like PlanView, ClearQuest, QualityCenter, etc. Someone is requesting metrics so they can see what’s happened, what’s happening and what might happen. You try your best to […]

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  WAIT! Read This Before You Pick The Wrong BI Solution

  There is so much buzz going on around big data, dashboards, metrics, etc.. Companies are implementing BI solutions in-house or in the cloud. Some companies are selecting BI solutions just because of the brand name. Other companies are selecting BI solutions because they think they are getting something that will answer a specific question today. […]

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  STOP Wasting Money Due To Lack Of Analytics

  I read an article the other day written by Joe Curtis called “Firms ‘wasting money on data centres of lack of analytics’” Mr. Curtis was correct that firms are wasting money due to the lack of analytics but not just on data centers. Firms are wasting money on resources, software, hardware, and much more due […]

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  Don’t Cram and Jam

  There is so much data available and so many pretty charts that you can make but do you really need to see all of them? Do you really need to see all of them on the first page? Don’t cram and jam all of the charts on the same page. Below are some items to […]

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  The Top 3 Reasons To Implement A BI Dashboard

  Dashboards are evolving more and more everyday to provide organizations with a clearer view, which allows users to make fact based decisions. Below are the key reasons to implement a BI dashboard no matter how big or small your organization is: Collaboration. Dashboards allow everyone to view the same information at the same time allowing […]

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  The Top 5 KPIs For Your Business

  There are so many different types of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) available in so many different formats. You could go out and build them all but what value would that actually give you? Let’s first look at what a KPI is: According to Wikipedia, KPIs are financial and non-financial metrics used to help an organization […]

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  Don’t Be The Last To Know

  Did you know that your project missed a critical milestone three weeks ago? Did you know that the project went over the budget four weeks ago? Someone in your organization knew that the milestone was missed. Someone also knew that the project went over budget. Did you know before these issues happened? My recommendation is […]

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