What are the metrics followed in project management?
The most metric sets deal with a variation of these attributes and are chosen to help the project managers gain insight into their product (software quality, size, rework), process (software quality, rework ) & project (schedule, effort).
But below is a broader classification:-
1) Project Management Metrics:
(i) Milestone metrics
- number of milestones
- number of proved requirements per milestone
- controlling level metrics
(ii) Risk metrics
o The Probability of resources availability
o The Probability of the requirements validity
o The risk indicators (long schedules, inadequate cost estimating, unanticipated acceptance criteria, excessive paperwork, error-prone modules, cost overruns, canceled projects, excessive schedule pressure, low quality, creeping user requirements, excessive time to market, unused or unusable software, hidden errors)
o The application risk metrics
(iii) Workflow metrics
- walkthrough metrics
- traceability metrics
- variance metrics
(iv) Controlling metrics
- Size of control elements
- Structure of control elements
- Documentation level
- Tool application level
(v) Management database metrics
- data quality metrics
- management data complexity
- data handling level (performance metrics)
- visualization level
- safety and security metrics
2) Quality Management Metrics:
(i)Customer satisfaction metrics
- characteristics size metrics
- characteristics structure metrics
- empirical evaluation metrics
- data presentation metrics
(ii) Review metrics
- number of reviews in the process
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- review level metrics
- review dependence metrics
- review structure metrics
- review resources metrics
(iii) Productivity metrics
- actual vs. planned metrics
- performance metrics
- productivity vs. quality metrics
(iv) Efficiency metrics
- time behavior metrics
- resources behavior metrics
- actual vs. Planned metrics
(v) quality assurance metrics
- quality evaluation metrics
- error prevention metrics
- measurement level
- data analysis metrics
3) Configuration Management Metrics:
(i) change control metrics
- size of change
- dependencies of changes
- change interval metrics
- revisions metrics
(ii) Version control metrics
- number of versions
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- number of versions per customer
- version differences metrics
- releases metrics (version architecture)
- data handling level