Agile metrics
- 1. Agile Metrics Beyond Burndown Charts Tanner Wortham
- 2. What metrics will my teams find useful?
- 3. Who am I? • Lead Scrum Master at Study.com • Author of a popular agile blog at www.spikesandstories.com • U.S. Marine veteran
- 4. Corps Business • Reward failure. Someone who never fails probably isn’t pushing the envelope. • Aim for the 70% solution. It’s better to decide quickly on an imperfect plan than to roll out a perfect plan when it’s too late. • Experiment obsessively. Even the most successful organization will eventually stop winning if it doesn’t explore radically new approaches.
- 5. What metrics will my teams find useful?
- 6. What metrics will my teams find useful? Working software is the primary measure of progress.
- 7. How did the journey begin? • Inspired by Troy Magennis • Marrying thoughts from Mike Cohn and Jeff Sutherland • Leverage existing lean start up mindset • Created during a company hackathon
- 8. What are attributes of good metrics? • Within team’s influence • Trend based • Leading indicators • Have a credible story
- 9. What are attributes of bad metrics? • Just convenient to capture • Trailing indicators • Individual value based • Gaming leads to “bad”
- 10. What are our goals? • Inspire richer team conversations • Craft framework for team experimentation • Measure in multiple dimensions • Ensure tension between dimensions
- 12. Source: JIRA Formula = # Completed Points / # of Committed Points
- 13. Source: JIRA, Namely Formula = Velocity / Capacity
- 14. Source: Git
- 15. Source: HipChat
- 16. Source: JIRA
- 17. Source: JIRA
- 19. How does this help us experiment? Plan • Brainstorm • Hypothesize • Communicate 01 Do • Collect Data • Collaborate • Check In 02 Check • Decide Next Steps • Analyze Findings • Communicate 03 Done • Document Details • Plan for Next 04
- 20. What have we learned? • Getting started was easier than we expected • Leadership support isn’t enough • “The map is not the territory” • With data comes baggage • Gaining team engagement is challenging
- 22. What’s next? • Measure outcomes at the org and team level • Explore ties between outputs and outcomes
- 23. Questions?
- 24. References • Corps Business by David Freedman • Agile Metrics at Øredev 2015 by Troy Magennis • An Appropriate Use of Metrics by Martin Fowler