Why Do Metrics get a Bad Rap? - Gina Anzaldo @ginabean
misuse?
measuring wrong thing?
bad scope?
cost of gathering data?
- self-supporting metrics are low cost: cycle time, escaped defects, happiness, planned/done
What is the purpose of metric? What question are you asking?
- progress, improvement, quality, customer value
Who is he audience for the metric? Teams? Managers?
Teams:
- stable, mature teams > build history > to predictability
- hard to have good metrics on new or changing teams with any confidence
- success, coordination
What sort of visibility do you give for metrics? transparency issues.
"Metrics don't kill teams. Managers with bad/misused metrics do."
"Build people not teams."
metrics discussed: cumulative flow, velocity, points complete, scrum plop, FTE, net promoter, lines of code.
Use forecasting - monte carlo
Analysis to help managers answer - How long? When will it be done?
Helps managers be people managers, not task managers.
see Troy Maginnis (sp?) talk at Agile2016
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