The broad project management sector has been seeking ways to reorient itself to meet client demands in an increasingly mercurial and fluid world. A related challenge is determining what metrics should ...

Table I. Standard project metrics (Click to enlarge). When thinking about the metrics that are best for an organization, the management team must start by determining what results are important to ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A study from Forrester Research concludes that the project management metrics can do more harm than good, according to CIO magazine.

In partnership with security analyst Rich Mogull (right), Microsoft is set to roll out a new research project to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing and ...

This chapter reviews the use of project management metrics by the Office of Environmental Management (EM) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 1 EM, in coordination with DOE’s Office of Project ...

LinearB, the company behind a “software delivery intelligence” platform for developers, has raised $16 million in a series A round of funding. The raise comes after “six months of hyper-growth” that ...

Those of us who read this magazine regularly know about security metrics. We have read about their value and seen monthly examples of useful metrics and what to do with them. But, ladies and gentlemen ...

Understanding how to measure a project's success allows you to make more informed decisions and establish strategic, measurable business goals. Most project management metrics fall into one of four ...

If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn or attended a maintenance or reliability conference lately, you’ve probably noticed how much attention metrics get. Everyone talks about them as if posting a chart ...