Active Quote by Paul McCulley

Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.

— Anand Mahindra

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and…

— Anonymous

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

— Eric S. Raymond

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“absolutes in performance benchmarks are as elusive as consensus in open source projects!”

— Mark Lutz

“Indeed, the cost-performance ratio of the product will depend most heavily on the implementer, just as ease of use depends most heavily on the…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Performance feedback is important.

— Morten Andersen

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained…

— Harold Geneen

“A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Beta testing is a symptom of weak testing practices and poor communication with customers.”

— Kent Beck

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server…

— Shawn Fanning

If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in…

— Strive Masiyiwa