Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, December 22, 2008 4:23:05 PM, by Dynera.
“Hi Doug,
I have your book on order and I was wondering if you cover the measurement of preventation effectivenss. For instance, I was involved with a software architecture team who’s purpose was to vet architecture designs. We recieved several feedback forms saying that [...]
Entries from December 2008
Measuring Prevention
December 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
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First Print Errata
December 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Welcome to the Errata thread in the book discussion of the How to Measure Anything Forum. An author goes through a lot of check with the publisher but some errors manage to get through. Some my fault, some caused by the typesetter or publisher not making previous changes. I just got my author’s copies 2 [...]
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Computing the Value of Information
December 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Monday, December 08, 2008 10:08:08 PM, by Unknown.
“I’m trying to quickly identify the items I need to spend time measuring. In your book, you determine what to measure by computing the value of information. You refer to a macro that you run on your spreadsheet that automatically computes the value [...]
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How do we measure the level of alignment of an organization to its stated strategy goals?
December 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Monday, December 08, 2008 9:32:43 PM, by Amichai.
“The challenge is to come up with a simple, clearly defined number (or a few numbers) that reflect how well the organization is executing towards the goals from the CEO level to the line worker level. It would also be good to have [...]
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Challenge Me
December 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments
As I mentioned in the book, I often offer a sort of measurement challenge to an audience where I m speaking about measuring the immeasurable . I ask anyone in listening to give me an example of an impossible measurement at any time during the conference and, after a 15 minute session with that person, [...]
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Facilitating Calibrated Estimates
December 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The book shows that calibrated probability assessments really do work and it gives the reader some idea about how to employ them. But facilitating a workshop – with calibrated estimates or any other formal method – has its own challenges. Participants ask questions or make challenges about calibration or probabilities in general that sometimes confound [...]
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Do you have questions about the content or use of a download?
December 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
If you have any questions about the downloads and how they are used for reference in the book, this is the place to post them. The downloads are meant to provide readers with examples that are already set up and, in many cases, can already use on practical problems. If you have questions about how [...]
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Intro To IT Value
December 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Yes, IT seems to stump a lot of people that try to measure its value. But the methods for measuring value don’t have to be that difficult. First, my readers will know that measuring the value means reducing your prior uncertainty about the value. My readers also know that the more your initial state of [...]
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Bayesian vs. Frequentist?
December 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Under the Errata forum in a thread I called Second Print Run Corrections , one poster replied that he believed I incorrectly applied the term confidence interval in the book. I discuss several errors in that post in a reply in that thread. But it introduces another point of confusion apparently held by some about [...]
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The Value of a Life?
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Again, by email and on this site, someone has asked how to measure value when the purpose of a project, policy, investment, etc. is to save a human life. One poster mentioned this in a thread he called Ominus Measurement Problem under the New Measurement Challenge forum. I explained in the reply that a method [...]
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