Measuring enterprise reuse in large corporate environment

Abstract

Reuse continues to be an important topic in most IT organizations. In a previous article, the author (2003) identifies the top obstacles in enterprise reuse as: lack of awareness of software available for reuse (repository), level of effort required to design software for reuse (education and lessons learned) and programmer lack of intent to actually reuse other organizational assets (education and executive support). This paper reviews a methodology utilized in a large telecommunications organization to measure reuse at the enterprise level. The paper reviews the different type of assets available for reuse, repository methodology, and specific metrics of reuse.