Measuring the productivity of product development is a complex and multi-faceted task, significantly different from manufacturing operations. Output from manufacturing is increasingly automated and ...

If you’re using software development productivity metrics to evaluate developer performance, then you’re doing it wrong. For best results, tie them to business outcomes. I cringe when development ...

A grant for the development of a new wave front sensor has been awarded to Trioptics, Wedel, Germany, a developer of optical testing instruments. The unspecified amount of funding was presented at the ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. What is “Effectiveness”? It is the degree to which something is successful in producing the desired result.

Deliverable-based metrics offer a product development team objective measures of project progress—and the focus needed to get the job done. David Warburton Many new product development programs fail ...

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Measure Incubator provides a platform for the development of patient-reported outcome performance measures in palliative cancer care, which is essential to ...

Human activity has caused precipitous increases in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, resulting in a one degree warming of average global surface temperatures over the past century. As the planet ...