Appendix Q: References and Further Reading


This appendix contains a list of metrics that your organization can consider using. For more information, review Chapter 17.

Level 2

Requirements Management

  1. Requirements volatility (percentage of requirements changes)

  2. Number of requirements by type or status (defined, reviewed, approved, and implemented)

  3. Cumulative number of changes to the allocated requirements, including total number of changes proposed, open , approved, and incorporated into the system baseline

  4. Number of changes requests per month, compared to the original number of requirements for the project

  5. Number of time spent, effort spent, cost of implementing change requests

  6. Number and size of change requests after the Requirements phase is finished

  7. Cost of implementing a change request

  8. Number of change requests versus the total number of change requests during the life of the project

  9. Number of change requests accepted but not implemented

  10. Number of requirements (changes and additions to the baseline)

Project Planning

  1. Completion of milestones for the project planning activities compared to the plan (estimates versus actuals)

  2. Work completed, effort expended, and funds expended in the project planning activities compared to the plan

  3. Number of revisions to the project plans

  4. Cost, schedule, and effort variance per plan revision

  5. Re-planning effort due to change requests

  6. Effort expended over time to manage the project compared to the plan

  7. Frequency, causes, and magnitude of the re-planning effort

Project Monitoring and Control

  1. Effort and other resources expended in performing monitoring and oversight activities

  2. Change activity for the project plan, which includes changes to size estimates of the work products, cost estimates, resource estimates, and schedule

  3. Number of open and closed corrective actions or action items

  4. Project milestone dates (planned versus actual)

  5. Number of project milestone dates made on time

  6. Number and types of reviews performed

  7. Schedule, budget, and size variance between planned versus actual reviews

  8. Comparison of actuals versus estimates for all planning and tracking items

Measurement and Analysis

  1. Number of projects using progress and performance measures

  2. Number of measurement objectives addressed

Supplier Agreement Management

  1. Cost of the COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) products

  2. Cost and effort to incorporate the COTS products into the project

  3. Number of changes made to the supplier requirements

  4. Cost and schedule variance per supplier agreement

  5. Costs of the activities for managing the contract compared to the plan

  6. Actual delivery dates for contracted products compared to the plan

  7. Actual dates of prime contractor deliveries to the subcontractor compared to the plan

  8. Number of on-time deliveries from the vendor, compared with the contract

  9. Number and severity of errors found after delivery

  10. Number of exceptions to the contract to ensure schedule adherence

  11. Number of quality audits compared to the plan

  12. Number of senior management reviews to ensure adherence to budget and schedule versus the plan

  13. Number of contract violations by supplier or vendor

Process and Product Quality Assurance (QA)

  1. Completions of milestones for the QA activities compared to the plan

  2. Work completed, effort expended in the QA activities compared to the plan

  3. Numbers of product audits and activity reviews compared to the plan

  4. Number of process audits and activities versus those planned

  5. Number of defects per release or build

  6. Amount of time/effort spent in rework

  7. Amount of QA time/effort spent in each phase of the life cycle

  8. Number of reviews and audits versus number of defects found

  9. Total number of defects found in internal reviews and testing versus those found by the customer or end user after delivery

  10. Number of defects found in each phase of the life cycle

  11. Number of defects injected during each phase of the life cycle

  12. Number of noncompliances written versus number resolved

  13. Number of noncompliances elevated to senior management

  14. Complexity of module or component (McCabe, McClure, and Halstead metrics)

Configuration Management (CM)

  1. Number of change requests or change board requests processed per unit of time

  2. Completions of milestones for the CM activities compared to the plan

  3. Work completed, effort expended, and funds expended in the CM activities

  4. Number of changes to configuration items

  5. Number of configuration audits conducted

  6. Number of fixes returned as "Not Yet Fixed"

  7. Number of fixes returned as "Could Not Reproduce Error"

  8. Number of violations of CM procedures ( noncompliance found in audits)

  9. Number of outstanding problem reports versus rate of repair

  10. Number of times changes are overwritten by someone else (or number of times people have the wrong initial version or baseline)

  11. Number of engineering change proposals proposed, approved, rejected, implemented

  12. Number of changes by category to code source, and to supporting documentation

  13. Number of changes by category, type, and severity

  14. Source lines of code stored in libraries placed under configuration control




Interpreting the CMMI(c) A Process Improvement Approach
Interpreting the CMMI (R): A Process Improvement Approach, Second Edition
ISBN: 142006052X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 205

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