β Scribed by Isabella Wieczorek
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) conducts many measurementbased improvement programs in industrial projects, as well as in public sector projects. The approach used for goal-oriented measurement is the Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) method (Basili et al. 1994). The IESE (and before that the Software-Technologie-Transfer-Initiative Kaiserslautern, STTI-KL (Rombach 1996) has been successfully applying and transferring this approach to industry in Germany since 1993. Some of the experiences gained with the transfer of goal-oriented measurement in industrial environments are documented and publicly available, for example, in Gresse et al. (1994), Briand et al. (1996), CEMP (1996), Gu Β¨nther et al. (1994) and PERFECT (1996). In addition to this, a lot of experience is documented but not externally available. The purpose of this column is to derive the most important necessary prerequisites for successfully establishing goal-oriented measurement programs in industry, based on all of these experiences.
Before describing the prerequisites, it is important to define what it means to successfully establish a measurement program. The definition includes two important aspects. First, all people involved in the measurement program accept measurement as
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