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I suggest to focus on software engineering effectiveness rather than productivity. Key dimensions are code quality, automated testing, and collaboration.
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To measure software quality, consider quantitative metrics and qualitative assessments, based on reliability, performance, security, maintainability, usability.
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The capacity to withstand a fault without failure is fault tolerance. Monitoring and measuring failure metrics is key to understand what is going on.
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In Software engineering, quality is defined as building software correctly and meeting specifications; basically, what the customer has requested.