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The Difficulty of Software Measurement

Posted November 2, 1999 | Leadership | Amplify

I just returned from the annual meeting of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG). IFPUG is an organization dedicated to the idea of measuring software process, and once again they had a terrific conference. I presented a reprise of my "Avoiding Dysfunctional Measures," which explores how difficult it is to measure organizational activity, and how we sometimes assume things are working when they aren't.

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Robert Austin
Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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