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The INCOSE Measurement Working Group (MWG) is providing an introduction to their recently released technical product, a “Project Manager’s Guide to Systems Engineering Measurement for Project Success”.  The guide is targeted at program/project managers and technical systems engineering leads who desire to use systems engineering technical measures to guide their programs to success.
This guide is written in a casual style to engage the reader in digesting the technical measurement concepts presented.  For those readers desiring to go deeper, references are provided to authoritative sources.
The guide begins with a brief overview of SE measurement. A “quick-start” guide is provided to help project managers select measures that are most appropriate for their project using a question and answer format, e.g., development or sustainment, agile or waterfall. The next section provides an extensive discussion of technical debt, how it arises, and how it can be identified, managed and avoided using different measures. Ten specific measures are provided in the next section, each with a single-page summary describing what and why to measure, how to make decisions based on the data, and cautions for application. Finally, a fictitious case study is used to demonstrate the application of many measures in a project.