Is GQM+Strategies really applicable as is to non-software development domains?
Salvatore Alessandro Sarcià · 2010
This paper reports on the ongoing experience of applying a variant of the GQM+Strategies approach to non-software development domains (e.g., military training domain). However, we found that it is not directly possible to apply the GQM+Strategies approach as is to non-software development domains, but it needs to be generalized, i.e., it needs to be turned into a context free approach. On the other hands, the required adaptations were very a few. Overall, we found so far that, apart from those specific adaptations, the GQM+Strategies approach can be effectively applied to those domains which have the same nature as software development (i.e., human-intensive domains). This practical application of the GQM+Strategies approach shows that the scope of this technology may be much larger than expected with great benefits for the software development industry.