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These metrics address the fundamental management
question: Is project on budget and on schedule?
Work and progress
Pre-planning estimate of the work in an objective measure
allows tracking progress against the plan. Each major team
within a project has at least one perspective that it is measured
against:
- Architecture team: spec and designs completed, use cases
demonstrated
- Development team: changes and fixes completed and closed
- QA and testing team: number of fixes and changes requested,
test hours executes, readiness criteria met
- Project management team: milestones completed
Financial status
Different tasks and pieces of a project are assigned percentage-earned
value. Percentage-complete then compared against scheduled
and actual costs, to identify behind-schedule, or ahead-of-schedule
situations.
Staffing and team
dynamics
Iterative development starts with a small team until requirements
and architecture mature. Implementation stage employs the
largest number of participants, and reaching transition point
the team gets smaller again. Knowing planned and actual dynamics
and composition of the team allows us to avoid staffing trouble
well ahead of time.
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