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Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. It is not only difficult, but most of the time, adopting ephemeral metrics can become ...

Product development is key to business success. It determines every new product's final cost, what features it will have, and whether the company will make money selling it. And many companies track a ...

If you’re using software development productivity metrics to evaluate developer performance, then you’re doing it wrong. For best results, tie them to business outcomes. I cringe when development ...

Software development and deployment cycles keep accelerating, thanks in large part to artificial intelligence (AI), which can generate code and make suggestions. Even with such hyper-productivity, IT ...

Scientists have come up with a new discovery that could transform our understanding of how childhood growth and development are measured – the DNA clock. The study, published in the Proceedings of the ...

It was in late 1973, at the freshly established Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) at Tagaytay City, that I saw the term “social indicators” for the first time. It was on the draft research ...

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This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. What is “Effectiveness”? It is the degree to which something is successful in producing the desired result.