Making the Most of Metrics

February 24th, 2010

Exposing Value with Metrics

Sometimes the toughest question to answer sounds very simple – “How are you doing?” When this question is asked of a CEO or CFO, the answer is usually a reflection of the financial state of the organization. However, when this same question is asked by the CEO to line of business leaders about initiatives and processes within the organization, it brings into play a complex set of interrelationships and dependencies.

Laura Mooney

http://www.information-management.com/newsletters/metrics_strategic_operational_performance-10017214-1.html

Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

November 30th, 2009

We’re now just past the 40th anniversary of the NATO Conference on Software Engineering in Garmisch, Germany, where the discipline of software engineering was first proposed. Because some of my early work became part of that new discipline, this seems like an appropriate moment for reassessment.

Tom DeMarco

http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2009/0709/rW_SO_Viewpoints.pdf