An IT measurement system is aligned with the IT organization's business goals
by examining the IT organization's current state-of-affairs with respect to measurement
and analyzing how it maps to a proposed measurement model. To ensure the viability
of the proposed measurement model, the IT organization and measurement processes
it employs are structured to naturally support the collection, analysis, reporting,
and use of the measurements in the proposed model. The measurement model and associated
techniques work from a top-down approach, starting with the goals of the organization,
identifying appropriate behaviors and finally associating measures that will empirically
demonstrate achievement of the behaviors. In addition, algorithms for prioritization
are executed to ensure that the best fitting measures are selected in the final
measurement model.