Measures for the Lean Start-ups

During my development of course material for DIT595 (Industrial Best Practice) for the Bachelor Program in Software Engineering and Management I got inspired by the Lean Start-up by Eric Ries (Crown Business Publishing, theleanstartup.com). The book is a very good material for entrepreneurs willing to start their own businesses. It is also very good for our students who want to do their bachelor and master theses in industry.

I also did some extra search for more articles on how measuring should be done in the lean start-ups. I have found the following article with tips for creating metrics – 8 tips…. The article proposes the following:

    • Be actionable
    • Be understandable and trustworthy
    • Measure results
    • Understand the downside
    • Understand the upside

Since the article is free I will not quote more – I recommend reading it and reflecting upon the metrics that we create.

The Adoption of Software Measures:, A Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) Perspective – article review

The Adoption of Software Measures:, A Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) Perspective
Link to full text at ScienceDirect

Adopting software metrics has been studied multiple times already. One would think that success factors like management commitment or actionability are well known. However, most of the current research has studied the existing measurement programs and reflected on their success.

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