CAN I APPLY THIS INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY?

The tools and techniques discussed here can be applied even in the most rudimentary development environments. You don’t need a rack of servers loaded with expensive CASE tools or financial and productivity management application packages. You don’t need to wait until you hire on with a CMMI? level 3 organization. All you need to get started is a spreadsheet application and time and defect data. Successful use of software measurement data depends on how effectively you think about the data you have, not on the technology you used to obtain that data.