This article discusses how the relationship among the five principal metrics of the software process can often be expresses through a Rayleigh curve.

This article discusses the effectiveness of metrics as the "little whip" needed to promote productivity.

This article discusses multiple applications based on only four measured metrics: size (function), effort, time, and defect rate. From these metrics, we can manage a project.

This article discusses the new issue of the fixed deadline and how managing expectations and using metrics can make fixed deadlines far less daunting.

This article discusses how management vision, when paired with metrics, can lead to progress.

This article discusses how metrics can be used to understand where you've been and how effective your organization can be.

This article discusses functional design and how this second phase of software development must reduce divergences to the levels that business practice can tolerate.

This article discusses the importance of morale and how the large organization can maintain a positive psyche among workers.

This article discusses the software cost estimation problem and how metrics and acceptance can solve it.

This article discusses how, through the use of metrics, business process is being redefined to eventually move much of the coordination load from the management hierarchy into IT.