Regarding "valuing information technology projects" - as I don't know
exactly what level of analysis to address I offer this from a somewhat
broad perspective as I find it all interesting.
I think this area is especially interesting because no-one knows! I have
seen investments on the order of $40 million in software projects
scuttled. We need to know how to do better.
Given the query I quoted at first I would first have to trifurcate it:
1. how well is the information technology (IT) project completed
relevant to PRODUCTION criteria?
2. how well does the product satisfy its GOALS/SPECS?
3. what does the project contribute to the BOTTOM LINE?
Here are a handful of notes from my perhaps peculiar and definitely dense
storage bin.
1. what I am thinking about here is perhaps best exemplified by
the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh and their
function point metrics which allows one to go beyond KLOC to
deal with programming language differences; the question I
suppose is how to evaluate 1 producer against another on a
specific software job; but then again,
2. beyond IT task completion one of course wants to know whether
the organization's goal was satisfied; I don't think this
evalution is specific to IT projectsis
specific
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