Manpower Delivery Rate
The ISBSG Development and Enhancement repository currently has data for more than
12,500 development projects, new releases of existing applications and completed agile sprints.
Most of the data in the repository was measured using ISO standards for functional size measurement (i.e. IFPUG, Nesma or COSMIC). Therefore, the metrics derived from this data are objective and easy to compare. Examples of these metrics are:
• Project Delivery Rate (PDR): effort hours spent per functional size unit delivered.
• Delivery Speed: Number of functional size units delivered per calendar month.
• Defect Density: Defects delivered per 1000 functional size units delivered.
• Manpower Delivery Rate (MDR): number of functional size units
delivered per person per elapsed month.
This short report focuses on Manpower Delivery Rate.
