Research · Basili, Trendowicz, Kowalczyk, Heidrich, Seaman, Münch and Rombach, Springer, 2014
Aligning Organizations Through Measurement: The GQM+Strategies Approach
measurement framework
Supports the return arc: the strategies chosen to reach a goal are aligned to it through the same measurement that answers the goal's questions, so a question area advises the purposes whose campaigns act on its answers.
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What it informs — 4
- enforcedA metric exists because a question needs it
- enforcedA target is a level on a reading, due within a window
- enforcedThe loop is law
- enforcedA deliverable is a method the industry already writes
This source is what the model was built from. It does not itself commit the model to anything — a commitment does, and the ones it informs are named above.