Top 25 Application Development KPIs of 2011-2012

The Top 25 Application Development KPIs of 2011 - 2012 report contains a thorough analysis on the most popular Application Development KPIs in 2011-2012, selected by the number of views they received from the smartKPIs.com community.

About Application Development as an Industry

Application Development refers to using different technologies to design, develop, and implement software applications within own or client organizations. KPIs refer to the applications developed as quantity, but mostly to quality aspects such as on time development and accordingly to the client’s requirements towards design and functionality.

Application Development sub-categories on smartKPIs.com are:

• Application Development Efficiency
• Software Bugs
• Software Defects
• Software Quality
• Software Testing
• Application Development Costs.

Highlights from the report

Top 25 Application Development KPIs of 2011-2012 offers an overview of the most popular KPIs for Application Development as an industry, by combining input from the smartKPIs.com community with research and analysis from the editorial team. Some of the main sections are:

• "KPIs ... Naturally", an article that sets the context through a discussion on what is old and what is new in the use of KPIs;

• An introduction to the custom KPI documentation form developed by the smartKPIs.com research team for documenting KPIs (with over 30 fields of data, making this the most thorough KPI documentation template in use today);

• A list with the names of the Top 25 Application Development KPI examples in 2011-2012 on smartKPIs.com;

• Among the most popular 25 KPI examples for banking in 2011-2012, top 3 is made of:
• # Bugs assigned not in pipeline
• % Schedule adherence in software development
• $ Coding cost per line of code (LOC)

• A detailed description of each KPI listed in the report, as documented in smartKPIs Premium (the premium content section of smartKPIs.com);

• Comprehensive insights on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as performance measurement tools and a glossary explaining the most popular terms characterizing KPIs.