Software Metrics Course
On Demand, Web-Based Course
Offered by The Westfall Team

Single Student Rate $495

An on-demand, web-based  course is designed to provide an introduction to the basics of software metrics and how to establish a software metrics program. 

This course includes:

• A discussion of issues involved with data collection, including:
  • what data to collect
  • who should collect the data
  • how to collect it

• Attendees learn to consider the human issues of implementing a measurement system and metric do’s and don’ts.
• Attendees also practice defining a human factors action plan for their metrics.
• This course ends with a survey of product, process, services and project metrics used in the software industry.

Course attendees will learn:

• How to identify their software metrics customers
• How to utilize the Goal/Question/Metric paradigm to select metrics that align with the organizational, project and process goals of those customers
• How to design metrics through:
  • standardizing entity and attribute definitions
  • choosing measurement functions
  • establishing measurement methods
  • defining decision criteria
  • designing reporting mechanisms
  • determining additional qualifiers