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A Road Map for Balanced Productivity Metrics: Are We There Yet?

Posted August 1, 2001 | Technology | Cutter Benchmark Review

The Balanced Approach

Philosophy

IT outsourcing continues to be a popular course of action for streamlining businesses. These arrangements always include measurements of performance and productivity improvement. The questions that we should be asking are:

  • Why isn't it just as important to measure performance and productivity related to inhouse IT?
  • Why don't we develop insourcing contracts as an alternative to outsourcing?

Whether IT is inhouse or outsourced, performance and productivity are important.

About The Author
Jim Mayes
About the Author Jim Mayes is currently an estimation consultant with BellSouth and is a certified function point specialist. He has more than 26 years of experience in software development and lifecycle management. Over the past five years, he has been directly involved in providing quantitative software project estimation, data analysis, and metrics related to software process improvement and outsourcing initiatives at BellSouth. Mayes can be… Read More
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