Abstract
Better, faster, cheaper! Practically all enterprises work towards one or more of those slogans. They have often dedicated programs in place to reduce cost, improve productivity or simply adjust towards the ever-changing business in which they operate. While such objectives and the related bold management statements are on each company website, the same companies do not know where they are and how to measure progress towards these objectives. Measurements not only must be technically defined, repeatable or reliable.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ebert, C., Dumke, R. (2007). Introducing a Measurement Program. In: Software Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71649-5_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71649-5_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-71648-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-71649-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)