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Measurement and feedback are increasingly being incorporated into global engineering and development financing and programming. Within this ecosystem, there is room to incorporate near-time measurement of program, product, and service performance, and feed these measures back to responsible parties in a way that enables iterative testing and improvement. This chapter presents a history of feedback approaches, and reviews case studies in using instrumentation to support improved global development program deployments.
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Thomas, E. (2020). Measuring Progress and Performance in Global Engineering. In: The Global Engineers . Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50263-8_3
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