Abstract
Software metrics plays an important role for visualizing the state of software development. However, metrics is not fully utilized in practical situations by stakeholders such as executives, software quality assurance member, project managers, developers, etc. Although this problem is caused by various reasons, we focus on the reasons such as the lack of developers' motivation for measurement and the lack of stakeholders' understanding of the relationship between their goals and measures. To fulfill these lacks, we propose a motivation method -- a GQM (Goal/Question/Metric)-based method for clarifying the meaning of measures corresponds to stakeholders' goals. We interviewed some stakeholders about our outcome that had created by using the proposed method. The result shows that the proposed method was regarded as a useful method for experienced developers and managers.
