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From: chrisp@regenmeister.EBay.Sun.COM (Chris Prael)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: bridge building and discipline
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Date: 16 May 91 17:15:28 GMT
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From article <1991May15.180943.6796@netcom.COM>, by jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter):
> I find it odd that metrics have been
> successfully used in just about all other industries to improve quality,
> reduce risk, identify incipient problems, increase productivity, etc, but
> that many in the software industry feel that metrics cannot do the same
> for software. 

The problem is comparing apples and figs.  In the industries in which
metrics have been used successfully, they have been applied to the
manufacturing and service processes of the industries.  No one has ever
successfully applied metrics to the design and development  processes 
of any industry outside of software.  So why would anyone who is not a 
sleepwalker conclude that metrics could be successfully applied to the 
design and development process in software?

Chris Prael