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This chapter summarizes the origins and benefits of the GQM+Strategies approach. We discuss the challenges business organizations face with regard to alignment and briefly explain how GQM+Strategies helps to address these challenges by describing the fundamentals of the approach as well as its core components. Furthermore, we provide insights into how GQM+Strategies evolved from and uses the Goal–Question–Metrics (GQM) approach, which is a well-known measurement approach in the software development domain, and we discuss the benefits of this evolution.
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Basili, V. et al. (2014). Introduction. In: Aligning Organizations Through Measurement. The Fraunhofer IESE Series on Software and Systems Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05047-8_1
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