Performance Evaluation Metrics for Information Systems Development

Rajiv D. Banker, Chris F. Kemerer

ISBN 10: 1332246370 / ISBN 13: 9781332246373

Published by Forgotten Books, 2020

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Print on Demand. This book presents a model to measure software development performance, focusing on agent-principal models in projects. The author concentrates on four dimensions of project performance: initial development cost, maintainability, timeliness, and effectiveness. The model developed in the book argues that, in the long term, both the principal and the agent in a project will benefit from improved metrics. The author applies the model and demonstrates how current measurement criteria preference for cost and schedule metrics over effectiveness metrics in software development projects aligns with the model's expectations. The book concludes by suggesting that although the current industry preference is for metrics that measure precision and sensitivity, future developments in software engineering may mean that other metrics become more widely adopted in the field as more complex dimensions of measurement become easier to measure. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performance Evaluation Metrics for Information Systems Development
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332246370
• ISBN 13: 9781332246373
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: print-on-demand item
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Synopsis

Excerpt from Performance Evaluation Metrics for Information Systems Development: A Principal-Agent Model

In order to provide incentives for the agent to exert greater effort to produce higher levels of the outcomes of interest to the principal, the principal bases the agent's compensation on the jointly observable metrics.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.