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Software Measurement Blogs

Collection, analysis, and reporting of data for SEI Core Metrics and custom metrics, used to support software estimation, software project tracking, and software project improvement.
Software Size Matters episode 7
What Makes a Software Performance Benchmark Truly Meaningful?
How quantifying software size provides the necessary context for accurate software performance benchmarking and estimate validation.
Software Project Development Resources
Top 5 Resources for Increasing Software Development Predictability in 2020

QSM provides a variety of resources to help navigate the continuously changing landscape of software development.
QSM Database Now Includes More Than 13,000 Completed Projects

QSM has increased it's software metrics database to over 13,000 completed projects, increasing the number of agile projects by 340%.
New Article: Function Point Sampling Holds Promise for Software Metrics

In this article for IFPUG's Metric Views, Carol Dekkers and Joe Madden suggest a new way to repurpose function points to achieve software project estimating successes today. 
New Article - 5 Core Metrics to Reduce Outsourced Software Project Failure

This GCN article explains how software estimation can be used in the acquisition life cycle to help government IT program managers make quantitative decisions.
The Lowly Line of Code (Part One)

James Heires describes various uses of SLOC from the perspective of software measurement.
New Article - 10 Steps to Better Metrics

Carol Dekkers gives 10 best practices for collecting and leveraging better software metrics.