Metrics

Although you may wish it weren’t the case, some Scrum Masters need to document how a sprint went. …

A very oft-cited metric is that 64 percent of features in products are “rarely or never used.” The …

I have a bit of a problem with all the hatred shown to so-called vanity metrics.

Eric Ries first …

Rather than a conventional review, here is the foreword I was asked to write for this …

It's a new year--that fabled time of midnight parties, resolutions, and, for us Americans, football …

Estimating is a way of buying knowledge. If having the additional knowledge will lead to different …

Agile projects are successful three times more often than non-agile projects, according to the 2011 …

Resampling is based on the idea that things we’ll observe in the future will be similar to the …

The topic of how well a team estimates two point stories relative to one point stories (and so on) …

A project management office (PMO) that is engaged in and supportive of transitioning to Scrum can …

I'm often asked about the relationship between story points and hours. People who ask are usually …

As a measure of the amount of work completed in an iteration, velocity works extremely well when …

Some teams may respond to the pressure for their abstract measure of velocity to increase by …

By producing a single chart that shows both a team's rate of progress and the product backlog, we …

One measure we may want to include in our suite of metrics could be the responsiveness of the …

Numbers may not lie, but measurements can sure mislead you. This article explores two myths about …

Too much work goes into use cases to not employ them to their full potential. By assigning points …

The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team …

This article describes some very useful metrics that are probably worth collecting on any project.