Management Indicators (Metrics)

Overview

This page identifies a collection of management indicators which can be used as metrics for a project.

Indicators

A list of management indicators which may be useful in creating metrics follows:

• Requirements volatility - total number of requirements and requirement changes over time;
• Complexity - Rate of complexity of the software and hardware identified items;
• Problem/Change Status Report - total number, number closed, number opened in the current reporting period, age, priority;
• Milestone performance - planned and actual dates of key project milestones;
• Build release - content planned and actual number of CIs, assemblies, components, modules, units released in each build;
• Staffing - planned and actual staffing levels over time;
• Software size - planned and actual number of units, lines of code, or other size measurement over time;
• Progress - planned and actual number of modules, software units designed, implemented, unit tested, and integrated over time;
• Accomplishments - accomplishments of project management/schedule related to cost, time and technical achievement.

Note: Requirements criteria examples;

Requirements specification 85% complete is not acceptable - stating that 85% of the planning element isn't useful as the remaining 15% could include and usually does contain the effort which does take 85% of the time.

The same is also true for 100 pages of the design description is complete. 

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