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The book describes some practices to improve the quality of the software development and their efficiency on the basis of metrics. It is not a book about poor software metrics, but it is a book about the ``metrication'' of the software development process. The applied metrics are the basic metrics as -- Lines of code (LOC) in the variants of new written (netto LOC (NLOC) and changed (delta LOC (DLOC), -- Faults related to the time (week, month etc.) or to the different documents, -- Times effort as staff-month or project duration, -- Costs for the different parts, -- Requests as change requirements for the different development phases and in different relations. The orientation of these simple metrics excludes mistakes in the application of statistical methods for the analysis of the recieved metrics values. The authors present the material in form of case studies. So it is easy to use the described method or parts of this for the own software development process. The book includes the experiences of other companies such as Data Logic, ETNOTEAM, VERIDATAS, RW-TUEV, and CRIL. The authors demonstrate the today's feasibilities.