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Paper - Measuring Software Projects

Most organizations use measurements in various ways to assess performance or effectiveness of various courses of action. Without measurement they have little more than subjective observation to determine whether things are on track; measurement is inevitable.  But measurement is a tricky thing -- many times you cannot directly measure what you really want to know about, as in cases where you measure increases in output (productivity) when you really would like to know about effectiveness of resource utilization.  In this paper, read about ways for measuring, what to measure and what not to measure.