At Schlumberger RPS, the application of the Goal/Question/Metric approach (GQM) and the Quality Improvement Paradigm (QIP) resulted in an enhanced ‘model-based GQM’. It customizes measurement to the organization and supports in the reuse of experience, by applying and maintaining reusable reference models. This ‘model-based GQM’ is a more formal method for the application of software measuremen...

Measurement is an important aspect of Software Engineering as it is the foundation of predictable and controllable software project execution. Measurement is essential for assessing actual project progress, establishing baselines and validating the effects of improvement or controlling actions. The work performed in this thesis is based on Hackystat [1], a fully automated measurement framework ...

Measurement is an integral part of total quality management and process improvement strategies. This paper describes our experiences using the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) paradigm to help design a company-wide measurement program for Engineering Ingegneria S.p.A., an Italian software house. The introduction of the measurement program was supported by the Commission of the European Communities wi...

ion Sheets unterstützen die genaue Analyse eines Ziels [vSB99]. Sie dienen insbesondere als Kommunikationsmittel zwischen den Beteiligten. In einem Abstraction Sheet werden die folgenden Elemente erfasst: • von den Projektbeteiligten vorgeschlagene Metriken, um die Zielerreichung zu messen, • eine Hypothese über die erwarteten Ergebnisse, • mögliche Ein ussfaktoren auf das Ergebnis in dem betra...

We propose an approach (GQM/MEDEA) for defining measures of product attributes in software engineering. The approach is driven by the experimental goals of measurement, expressed via the GQM paradigm, and a set of empirical hypotheses. To make the empirical hypotheses quantitatively verifiable, GQM/MEDEA supports the definition of theoretically valid measures for the attributes of interest base...

In the ESPRIT project PROFES (PROduct-Focused Improvement of Embedded Software processes) a goaldriven process improvement methodology been developed that combines and enhances methods like goaloriented measurement, product assessment, process assessment, and process modelling. So far, the PROFES improvement methodology has been applied in multiple projects at three industrial embedded software...

Although GQM+Strategies® 1 assures that business goals and strategies are aligned throughout an organization and at each organizational unit based on the rationales to achieve the overall business goals, whether the GQM+Strategies grid is created correctly cannot be determined because the current definition of GQM+Strategies allows multiple perspectives when aligning goals with strategies. Here...

Software organizations are in need of methods for understanding, structuring, and improving the data they are collecting. This paper discusses an approach for use when a large number of diverse metrics are already being collected by a software organization. The approach combines two methods. One looks at an organization's measurement framework in a top-down fashion and the other looks at it in ...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...