4 | 1999
In This Issue:
| Introduction Ed Yourdon What's Practical About Software Measurement? Joyce Statz What Do Our Metrics Mean? Richard E. Zultner First, Get the Front End Right Lawrence H. Putnam, Michael Mah, and Ware Myers The Secrets of Highly Successful Measurement Programs Carol A. Dekkers Back to the Basics: Metrics that Work for Software Projects Dwayne Phillips |
We've covered the topic of software metrics about once a year since we began publishing Cutter IT Journal's forerunner, American Programmer, in the late 1980s. An optimist might interpret this by suggesting that there's always something new and interesting to say about metrics; the pessimist might argue that the only reason we keep talking about metrics is that so few people are actually doing anything about it.
