E3 - Extract, Evaluate and Execute

While reading the book "

Best practices in software measurement:

how to use metrics to improve ...

By Christof Ebert, Reiner Dumke, Manfred Bundschuh"it talks of 3 steps to be followed in metrics, it suddenly striked me it can be applied to any activity as part of daily chores.

Decision making - well thats what metrics are needed for

1. Extract - Info, metric required for

2. Evaluate - The info needs to be evaluated for specific status.

3. Execute : Rather Act, take decision based on the above steps.