SOFTWARE METRICS HANDBOOK

Redefining Success in Software Development: The Crucial Metrics You Should Be Using

Discover the Four Key Metrics to Transform Software Development, Foster Innovation, and Take Your Team to the Next Level

In my last article, I shattered the widely held illusion of code coverage being a metric of software quality. But I gave no alternative about how to measure if we are building a high-quality product. Yet, now I want to go one step further. Not only making your software development with high quality, but also your team highly productive and with a good health and culture. Because speed and quality go hand in hand. So, without more delay, let’s redefine success and explore ‘the crucial metrics you should be using’!

Time to upgrade metrics

Measuring the progress of a software development team is a very hard task. There have been, and there will be, countless meetings between managers discussing which metrics they can use to steer their projects, and there are infinite possibilities. The problem is, although all of them seem reasonable, often they do not possess the desired value, or even worst, they become a risk for the team.