Despite many hours of creating plans and projections, nothing goes exactly as planned. If software projects could be predicted precisely, there would be no need to monitor or control them.

 

A good manager tracks process, project, and product metrics. Project monitoring compares the actual situation against the plan, and project control acts to address deviations. Metrics and measurements allow you to assess the status of a project in quantitative terms (Marchese, n.d.).

 

Now that the three different types of metrics have been established, it is time to take a break from your employee-tracking application to help your coworker identify them in the following scenario:

 

Today, while working on your employee-tracking application project, an instant message from Jessie appears on your screen saying, "Hey, it has been a while! How have you been?"

 

Before you have time to reply, Jessie types, "I need your help on one of my projects."
Since Jessie is a new coworker and you enjoy helping people, you type, "Okay. Tell me about what you are working on."

 

Jessie responds, "I just emailed you an Excel workbook with metrics reports for a continuing project. Can you explain the trends in the Excel workbook's data and tell me the project's status? Also, if there are any additional metrics that would be helpful, let me know."

 

Thinking about the complexities of determining trends and project status, you reply, "I'll look it over, discuss the metrics with my colleagues, and will get back to you with answers."

 

 

Thoroughly explain, how you determined the project status based on the data. Thoroughly explain, how process, project, and product metrics each explain a different part of your interpretation of the trends. Thoroughly explain , what additional metrics would be helpful to better determine the project status?