The Organizational Measurement Program has two main purposes. The first is to provide services to software projects at Goddard, ranging from consulting services to providing planning models that help allocate staff and plan a schedule. The second purpose is to assess trends in key software indicators, such as productivity and quality, and determine whether investments in new technologies and processes are having the desired effect.

The Measurement Team of the Software Process Improvement Project conducts the Organizational Measurement Program. The Team's main activities are shown in the yellow box of the diagram below. The green ovals represent interfaces between the Team and its customers. The diagram shows how the Measurement Team supports software projects in their measurement activities and provides useful, quantitative measures of organizational performance and the effects of investments in software process improvement over the long term.

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