Pilot Study

To perform preliminary verification of framework

• Structured interviews with three multimedia development organizations

• Results suggest the type of project almost entirely determined development environment and workload

• Results of pilot study were combined with components of GQM framework to develop Postal Survey

  Focus to determine factors which influence development effort
  

• 50% of respondents used no formal methodology

• None of the traditional software metrics used - experience from previous projects used

• Project tracking performed at very high level - immature project management

• Staff experience and project size given importance