Product Evaluation Through Contractor and In-House Metrics

Agile methods are gaining in popularity and have already become mainstream in software development due to their ability to produce new functionalities faster, and with higher customer satisfaction. Agile methods require different measurement practices compared to traditional ones. Effort estimation, progress monitoring, improving performance and quality are becoming important as valuable advice for project management. The project team is forced to make objective measures to minimise costs and risks with rising quality at the same time. In this paper, we merge two aspects of agile method evaluation (the contractor and the client view), propose AIM acronym and discuss two important concepts in order to perform objective measurements: “Agile Contractor Evaluation” (ACE) and “Agile In-House Metrics” (AIM). We examine what type of measurements should be conducted during agile software development methods and why.