Metrics That Matter
The Team's Dashboard
The Team Defines The Dashboard
- What to measure
- How to measure it
- What's good enough (for now)
Spotify's Health Check
Many important tips at that link!
Mood Chart
Metric Mistakes
- Measuring what's easy to count, not what's important
- Measuring process, like attendance, not outcomes, like morale
- Targeting one metric
- Common software metric pitfalls
- Averaging
-
4 people with 10 commits and 1 with 0
≠ 5 people with 8 commits!
-
4 people with 10 commits and 1 with 0
Focus on Metrics that Matter
- Value delivered
- Velocity, product quality, client satisfaction
- Team Development
- Morale, growth
- Risk reduction
- Bus factor, feasibility, market viability
Use Metrics to Detect Issues
- Use minimums and maximums, not averages
- Fewest commits by anyone
- Worst mood
-
Focus on changes from previous week
- Is a problem area improving?
- Is a strong area starting to go down?
Thanks to Hakim El Hattab for RevealJS
Metrics That Matter