Velocity is one of the key metrics used by Agile teams to measure the rate at which a team delivers value to the customer. In his book “Escape Velocity – Better Metrics for Agile Teams”, Doc Norton explains why velocity is not the ideal metric for Scrum teams.
Product metrics and key performance indicator(KPIs) have been getting increasingly more important and useful for Agile organizations that develop digital products. When done right, they can become an engine for product growth and inform great strategic and tactical decisions. When done wrong, they can lead to a huge amount of sunk resources and wasted time.
In recent years, measurement has increasingly gained more traction in the Agile world. Many folks want to “measure” or even “measure what matters” when adopting new ways of working like Scrum.
How do you know if your Scrum team is really Agile? Like predicting the weather, complex human systems need data analytics and statistical models over simple reporting, to understand what creates business agility from human behavior. This is the world of psychology, statistics, human behavior models.
“How well is your delivery team doing?” That seems like a straightforward question for an Agile team, but it is more complicated that it might sound at first. Do we know what it means to “do well” or is it one of those things that is different to everyone?
From the perspective of Scrum, metrics and KPI evaluations are a few of the last frontiers in the process for continuous improvement. In this article, Lucas Napoli shares some metrics and KPIs that Agile software development teams should be aware of.
Metrics are an important part of the Agile software development approaches like Scrum. They are however, like velocity, more often focus on the performance of the delivery team. What about the customers? In this article, Fabio Gasparri discusses Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will matter for the clients.
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