Agile Metrics
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Add to calendarThe software development industry has a poor track record with metrics. Many metrics are tangential to development’s goal of delivering business value, and are thus ill-regarded by agile developers. However, good metrics are important to management, in order to understand the status and progress of their teams, and to make projections into the future.
In this class we discuss velocity, burndown graphs, EVM metrics (CPI and SPI), and earned business value, including methods for calculation, why they’re important, and how they enforce (or fight against) agile values.
This class is offered in lecture form with frequent Q&A from the audience. It’s simply a walk through the metrics, nothing fancy. Previous versions have been presented at a number of conferences, including Agile 2008.
- to understand how using metrics can improve or impede progress of the team
- to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the metrics presented
