Great Big Agile: An OS for Agile Leaders

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33. Goal, Question, Metric (GQM)

Jeff Dalton¹ 

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Waterford, MI, USA

 

Description

Goal, Question, Metric (GQM) is an approach developed in the early 1980s, piloted at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; it is used to derive useful measurements from one or more goals.

• Goals are established based on an organization’s or team’s mission, vision, strategic goals, and improvement objectives.

• One or more questions are identified for each goal to refine the goal into information needs.

• One or more metrics are identified to answer each question.

• Metrics are selected and related back to the goals to ensure that they measure goal attainment and progress.

One advantage of GQM ...