7.5. SUMMARY
During project planning, you must decide how you plan to monitor the progress of the project. Progress monitoring is essential to ensure that the project is progressing toward the goals and to allow you to take corrective actions if the situation warrants. Project monitoring usually requires measurements.
Following are some of the lessons from the measurement and tracking planning at Infosys:
Plan to measure size, schedule, effort, and defects. These suffice for most software projects.
Classify effort in a few categories, and collect effort data using an automated system with activity codes for each category. To avoid inaccuracies due to poor memory recall, log effort data frequently.
Log defects and track them to closure. For a defect, ...
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