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Agile Metrics
Beyond Burndown Charts
Tanner Wortham
What metrics
will my teams
find useful?
Who am I?
 Lead Scrum Master at Study.com
 Author of a popular agile blog at
www.spikesandstories.com
 U.S. Marine veteran
Corps Business
 Reward failure. Someone who never fails
probably isnt pushing the envelope.
 Aim for the 70% solution. Its better to decide
quickly on an imperfect plan than to roll out a
perfect plan when its too late.
 Experiment obsessively. Even the most
successful organization will eventually stop
winning if it doesnt explore radically new
approaches.
What metrics
will my teams
find useful?
What metrics
will my teams
find useful?
Working software is the primary measure of
progress.
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
What are
attributes of
good metrics?
 Within teams influence
 Trend based
 Leading indicators
 Have a credible story
What are
attributes of
bad metrics?
 Just convenient to capture
 Trailing indicators
 Individual value based
 Gaming leads to bad
What are our
goals?
 Inspire richer team conversations
 Craft framework for team experimentation
 Measure in multiple dimensions
 Ensure tension between dimensions
Agile metrics
Source: JIRA
Formula = # Completed Points / # of Committed Points
Source: JIRA, Namely
Formula = Velocity / Capacity
Source: Git
Source: HipChat
Source: JIRA
Source: JIRA
Agile metrics
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
What have we
learned?
 Getting started was easier than we expected
 Leadership support isnt enough
 The map is not the territory
 With data comes baggage
 Gaining team engagement is challenging
What have we
learned?
Whats next?
 Measure outcomes at the org and team level
 Explore ties between outputs and outcomes
Questions?
References
 Corps Business by David Freedman
 Agile Metrics at redev 2015 by Troy Magennis
 An Appropriate Use of Metrics by Martin Fowler

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