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Managing IT Performance to Create Business Value
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Managing IT Performance to Create Business Value

by Jessica Keyes
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
10h 11m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Appendix V: Traditional IT Metrics Reference

Product and Process

Sample product metrics include

  1. Size: Lines of code, pages of documentation, number and size of test, token count, function count
  2. Complexity: Decision count, variable count, number of modules, size/volume, depth of nesting
  3. Reliability: Count of changes required by phase, count of discovered defects, defect density = number of defects/size, count of changed lines of code

Sample process metrics include

  1. Complexity: Time to design, code and test, defect discovery rate by phase, cost to develop, number of external interfaces, defect fix rate
  2. Methods and tool use: Number of tools used and why, project infrastructure tools, tools not used and why
  3. Resource metrics: Years experience ...
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ISBN: 9781315351162