GQM+Strategies [1][2] is a method that provides concepts and actionable steps for creating the link between goals and strategies across an organization and allows for measurement-based decision-making.
It was developed by Victor Basili, Jens Heidrich, Mikael Lindvall, Jürgen Münch, Myrna Regardie, Carolyn B.
The book Aligning Organizations through Measurement[3] gives a comprehensive overview of the method, provides actionable guidance, case studies, and practical applications.
It involves observation, experience facilitation, collaboration, decision making, analysis, and synthesis regarding goals, context factors, and assumptions.
The grid specifies goals and strategies across all levels of an organization including the measurement program needed to monitor and control them.
Context factors are environmental variables that represent the organizational environment and affect the kind of models and data that can be used (e.g., the type of business, the market of an organization).
[5] Current research[6] evaluated the approach utilizing revised Bloom's taxonomy as a framework for assessing the practitioners’ cognition level of the concepts.
The approach has been applied in different industrial settings and different domains so far reaching from telecommunication, automotive, and aerospace to classical information system.