Measurement

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The theme for this issue of Software Tech News (STN) is measurement, especially as it relates to integration and software process maturity. Integration is capturing more and more of our focus and our effort, regardless of what we call it. At the project level, within the boundaries of a single software system, we often focus more on integrating existing systems and COTS than developing a system from scratch. At the organizational level and across organizations there is the need to integrate existing software systems, as components of an enterprise, in order to enable business intelligence (sometimes called “knowledge management”). While the commercial community uses the terminology of “enterprise”, in the military domain, integration is often addressed from the perspective of the System-of-Systems concept (or a federation), enabled by “Net-Centricity”.