Abstract

This paper presents a framework for transforming organizational outcomes into their related software measurement programs. The benefit of this framework is that it can continually measure how well operations or projects lead to the outcomes. The transformation framework has four parts: setting up the program, running the measurement program, analyzing the information products and using the result. The output of this framework is a measurement plan that can produce information products to support both software and organizational measurements. The framework is applied to 3 projects out of 5 projects conducted at SwE Laboratory, Walailak University, Thailand. The results are shown that the projects that use this framework are more consistent with the outcomes. The average time requires to re-run measurements are 5. 33 days decreased. In term of user satisfaction, about 73% of the laboratory members are satisfied with the framework where the rests are neutral.

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