How do you quantitatively analysis the quality of a project
during development?

Answer Posted / harish gaggar

Not sure if we can do Quantitatively analysis for Quality, if yes then it should be in planning phase not in development. Usually we perform Quantitatively analysis for Risk in planning phase.

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