After recently having a brief discussion about progress, I thought I would try to write a list of all the ways people have tried to measure how a project is going.
- Lines of code written
- Number of bugs fixed
- Man hours spent
- Number of deadlines hit
- Deadline overrun
- Elapsed time
- Story points completed
- Velocity
- Burn down rate
- Money earnt (or saved) by the users
- Time saved by the users
- Bugs introduced
- Uptime
- User complaints
- Scope creep
- Working software