webinar on agile metrics
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Webinar
on
Agile Metrics
By Saket Bansal
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About Me…
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Agenda
About Metrics
Common Agile Metrics
The Economic View
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When a Measure becomes a target, it ceases
to be a good measure
Goodhart's Law
Warning
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Metric
A metric is a standard for measuring or
evaluating something.
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Measurement Dimensions
• Productivity
• Time to Market
• Predictability (Release / Sprint)
• Quality (Code base / Technical
Debts )
• Customer Satisfaction
• Employee Satisfaction
• Deviations / Variances
• Profitability
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Good Use
• Used in retrospectives to
creates shared perspective
and diagnosis
• Feedback to correct planning
• Feedback for Prioritization
• Maintaining healthy code
base
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Bad Use
• Evaluating Team
• Evaluating Individual
• Giving Target
• Showing progress
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Agile Metrics
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Velocity
• Expressed as the
number of story points
(or ideal days)
completed.
• Only stories or features
that are complete
counted
• Is an empirical
observation
• Helps us in refining the
release plan.
15
17
15
18 19
12
20 20
20
15
10
5
Sprints V
elo
cit
y
Velocity / Capacity Ratio (in
Person Days)
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Stories Started But Not Done
• Sum up all the story
points that the team
started but could not done
• Should trend toward zero
• Measure of wasted work
5
10
2 2
5
20
15
10
5
Sprints
Sto
ry
Poin
ts
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140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Technical Debt Incurred This Sprint
2
7
12
20
15
10
5
Sprints
Tech
nic
al D
ebt
in S
tory
Poin
ts
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Sprint Burndown Chart (Hrs Or Story Points)
Days
Ideal H
ou
rs
55
38
20
10
Days
Sto
ry P
oin
ts
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Release Burndown Chart
Iterations
Poin
ts
250
200
150
100
50
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Planned
Actual
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Sprint Goals
100
75
50
25
Sprints
% G
oal com
ple
tion
Fail
Sprints
Pass /
Fail
Pass
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Self Assessment Metrics
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Technical Excellence
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Value Point Delivered
• Value points give per story by
Content Owner
• Value points of only done
stories counted
• Helps in priority alignment
15
17
15
18 19
12
20 20
20
15
10
5
Sprints
Valu
e P
oin
ts
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Defects (In Story Points)
• Sum of defects (in story
points) from defect backlog
• Shows amount of work
getting added because of
defects
• Should be near to zero
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
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The Economic View
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Beyond Proxy Variables
• Should we delay the release by
one month to fix the defects ?
• Should we reduce the cycle time
by adding one more team?
• Should we delay the release to
add functionality?
• Should we delay the project by
one month to get more
innovative ?
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The Economic View
Value
added
Risk
Cycle Time
/ Delays
Product
Life Cycle
Profit
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Sample Economic Framework
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1 2 3 4
Product Life Cycle Profit
Life Cycle
Profit
Product
Value
Development
Expense
EMV of
Risks
Cost of
Delay = - - -
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References
• http://agileatlas.org/articles/item/metrics-for-a-scrum-team
• The Principles of Product Development Flow , Donald G.
Reinertsen
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