Entropy Metrics for Agile Development Processes

Agile development processes are preferred by most of the software industry over plan-driven processes in recent years. The transition from plan-driven to agile processes has surfaced a problem: How to adopt metrics that will provide information about the product, such as complexity, design, quality, and size. Many software metrics that are used with plan-driven processes conflict with the agile values and principles. This paper is proposing to use the entropy concept from communication theory to develop complexity metrics that will help project managers to have a better view of the product.