More analogies.. If I spill my beer I'm out $1.00. What is the cost if there is old, inaccurate content on my website?
Simple question, and these days, bottom line IT spending is important. duh. Nobody has techniques or methods for justifying the cost of CMS? Quote from Network World Nov, 18 2002: Robert McCormack, CIO Aramark: "If you can't count it, it doesn't exist.". -----Original Message----- From: Nuno Lopes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [cms-list] Re: Are there ways to measure... Hi all. 1) For those who argue that is almost impossible to get metrics that explain the positive impact on the vertices being discussed the question I ask is would it be possible to make the system work effectively while achieving the same results without a CMS implementation? I believe that we all believe answer is no (here is one metric). So basically it for sure have impact on the results (negative or positive that is another matter). 2) Now, are this metrics are useful to compare two CMS's? I believe that they are not. The metrics required to compare CMS's are different then the metrics to analyze the impact of a CMS's within a business context. The metrics should found by comparing technical abilities and vendor strength as it as been. That is why I believe that the work of Pascal may bring some innovative thinking by addressing the first point not the second. If he could at least find some heuristic and metrics in conjunction with patterns that could help one finding what kind of information (value list, reports, etc) that CMS could provide to sustain business decisions out of the box in an easy to access manner would be of great interest (here is a direct impact on results). Rob wrote: >For those working in an XP or Agile development arena >this is the test. If you're business user can't >define the test that the system must pass then you are >at liberty to say "it's done" and take the money. A >trend we seem to see a lot of in the CMS marketplace. :) Rob wrote: >To say that a product has no directly and objectively >measurable benefits is to say "don't buy this". I say: To say that a product has no directly and objectively measurable benefits is to say "don't use this". Best regards, Nuno Lopes Independent Consultant -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
