Friday, October 29, 2010

Measuring Efficiency

How do you measure efficiency as it pertains to software?  At what levels do you apply the metrics?  What metrics?

Bits and Bytes?  Frames?

Information Storage and Retrieval?

Structural Formation of Information?

User Interface and Navigation?  User Task Workflows?

Memory Allocation? Disk Writes?

Colors and Shapes?

Speed of Launch?  Shutdown?

Stability and Reliability?

Ease of Deployment?  Control over Usage?

User Happiness?

Its ability to coalesce other streams of information?

Its ability to transform information?

Its ability to control?

Its ability to listen?

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