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

Mood Chart

Team Blue (names changed), CS 397, Fall 2020

Metric Mistakes

  • Measuring what's easy to count, not what's important
  • Measuring how often you do something, not the health of the project
  • Measuring one-time issues
  • Using metrics to evaluate people
  • Common software metric pitfalls

Very Few Metrics Really Matter

  • Value delivered
    • Velocity, product quality, client satisfaction
  • Team Development
    • Morale, growth
  • Risk reduction
    • Bus factor, feasibility, market viability

Thanks to Hakim El Hattab for RevealJS