Product development is key to business success. It determines every new product's final cost, what features it will have, and whether the company will make money selling it. And many companies track a ...

Measuring the productivity of product development is a complex and multi-faceted task, significantly different from manufacturing operations. Output from manufacturing is increasingly automated and ...

I spoke yesterday at the CEGA-DIME* co-sponsored event: Measuring Development: Energy & Environment. This was a terrific day of interesting talks, thoughtful conversations and great networking. This ...

Software development and deployment cycles keep accelerating, thanks in large part to artificial intelligence (AI), which can generate code and make suggestions. Even with such hyper-productivity, IT ...

Human activity has caused precipitous increases in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, resulting in a one degree warming of average global surface temperatures over the past century. As the planet ...

Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD) is a conceptual framework to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation. This manual seeks to guide national governments to use TAMD. TAMD ...

Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD) is a conceptual framework to monitor and evaluate climate change adaptation. This manual seeks to guide local actors in governments, NGOs and ...

It is easy to learn the average income of a resident of El Salvador or Albania. But there is no systematic source of information on the average income of a Salvadoran or Albanian. We estimate a new ...