Software Metrics: Best Practices for Successful IT Management

13.4 COMPONENT BUILD

Building the components of your measurement program should be mechanistic, Figure 13.9. This does not mean that the build process will not consume significant resources or take a considerable elapsed time to complete: it simply recognizes that most of the work should have been done during the requirements specification and the design stages.

Write procedures and standards - never enough on its own

Prepare training material

Build prototype database

Obtain software packages if necessary

Train Coordinators, i.e. 'build' the staffing infrastructure

Remember that what you should aim to deliver are complete solutions. That means training, procedures support services, etc. Having these things ready makes the next stage possible.