The Metric Problem
Posted on Mon, Aug 15, 2011
By ASG's Professional Services Group
You need data! You need data more than you think you need data. Without it, you can’t make educated decisions. How do you know that is the best direction? Why? Can you back that up? What is your source? Your organization is going to ask these simple questions when you are determining the best course of action for a potential project or program. If you are simply going off a guess, then failure is crouching at your door.
If nothing is measured nothing can ever really be determined to be gained or lost.
ASG has some ideas on this subject and is willing to share them in our next post that will help you define and create better metrics. Some of those ideas include:
• How do you determine what to formally measure?
• How do you collect, understand and report on those metrics?
• What value does security get from investing in metrics?
• What value does the organization get from investing in metrics?
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