Going beyond traditional Agile metrics

This is a work in progress article, as I learn more I will also be updating this writing more.

Don’t measure individual performance, measure team performance
What is team success
Working out what good and bad means
What is a good metric? What is a bad metric?
Mining data from an electronic tool ends up in us choosing the data that is easily available
- Usually things we can count
  - Velocity
  - Throughput
Good metrics lead to decisions
- Insights that make us improve in specific areas
Metrics draw abuse. Let’s use that abuse to our advantage. E.g. if we measure throughput/amount of stories through the Sprint, then a natural by-product would be for teams to break stories up even further. Is that a bad thing?
- The metric is now gamed
- Look for those with a positive outcome
You need a good reason for using a metric. If it does not resonate with the teams, then it’s not going to work.
Good metrics are linked to strategy

Where there is fear, the figures will be wrong ~Deming