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Software Project Management in Practice
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Software Project Management in Practice

by Pankaj Jalote
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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7.1. CONCEPTS IN MEASUREMENT

The basic purpose of measurements in a project is to effectively control the project. This section discusses some concepts related to metrics and measurement and the basic metrics that you should measure for controlling a project. One approach for process control is statistical process control. This section also discusses some concepts relating to SPC and the way SPC can be used for software.

7.1.1. Metrics and Measurements

Software metrics can be used to quantitatively characterize various aspects of the software process or software products. Process metrics quantify attributes of the software process or the development environment, whereas product metrics are measures for the software products.1,2 Product metrics ...

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