Moving the metrics,ways to monitor improvements

Joanna Koprowicz

What is a meaningful metric?

“Scrum requires simple metrics, e.g. measures of workremaining or business value delivered. The metrics should beused to measure truth - not to measure success or failure.Only measures of truth can be trusted not to incite quick-fixbehaviour in a team”

Tobias Mayer - The People’s Scrum

TRUTH

“My personal greatest frustration with metrics is thephenomenon whereby our peers and team membersdeliberately or inadvertently find ways to achieve themetric and the rewards that come with it, but fail toincorporate the correct or desired behavior. Instead theyadopt undesirable behavior. It drives me nuts!”

Alan Nicol

Fudging metrics

Which key metrics to monitor?

WASTE

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”

Peter. F.Drucker

Vanity Metrics

Velocity

Burn down

Predictability

Tracking project progress

Value Stream Map

Matthias Marschall

Waste snake

Limiting WIP

Burn up

Cumulative flow

“Agile Metrics in Action” by Christopher W. H. Davis

Lead time and cycle time

Defect count

Team Satisfaction

“The best way of learning about anything is by doing”

Richard Branson

Thank you!