Better Metrics for your Team

Are you still measuring the performance of your team with Velocity, Estimates vs. Actuals, Code Coverage, Cyclomatic Complexity, and “style violations”? Are your business stakeholders still in the dark about when they can expect new features? If so, you’re missing the boat.

The good news is that there are more powerful and reliable metrics that are cheaper to derive. Trust me, you will love these metrics and they will love you back.

You’ll walk away from this session understanding the purpose of capturing metrics, how few you actually need, and participate in an interactive game showing you how to capture them.

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1. Better Metrics for your Team Nayan Hajratwala @nhajratw nayan@chikli.com Friday, September 13, 13
2. Traditional Metrics Friday, September 13, 13
3. Traditional Metrics • Lines of Code Friday, September 13, 13
4. Traditional Metrics • Lines of Code • Cyclomatic Complexity Friday, September 13, 13
5. Traditional Metrics • Lines of Code • Cyclomatic Complexity • ROI Friday, September 13, 13
6. Traditional Metrics • Lines of Code • Cyclomatic Complexity • ROI • Estimates vs Actuals in Hours Friday, September 13, 13
7. Traditional Metrics • Lines of Code • Cyclomatic Complexity • ROI • Estimates vs Actuals in Hours • Utilization Friday, September 13, 13
8. Agile Metrics! Friday, September 13, 13
9. Agile Metrics! • Test Coverage Friday, September 13, 13
10. Agile Metrics! • Test Coverage • Velocity Friday, September 13, 13
11. Agile Metrics! • Test Coverage • Velocity • Estimates vs Actuals in Story Points Friday, September 13, 13
12. The Business Wants... • How many features can you get done? • When will be features be in production? Friday, September 13, 13
13. Game Time! Dot Game - Developed by NetObjectives Friday, September 13, 13
14. Little’s Law Lead Time = WIP Throughput Friday, September 13, 13
15. Game Results Team 1 Team 1 Team 1 Team A Team A Team A Team Alpha Team Alpha Team Alpha # Completed # Accepted # In Progress (WIP) 1st Delivery Lead Time Throughput # Stickies --------- minute Current Lead Time (minutes) R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 12 21 17 24 31 22 0 19 2 24 0 22 42 2 54 13 42 4 3:20 :42 3:00 :40 3:06 :47 2.4 4.2 3.4 4.8 6.2 4.4 17.5 min .45 min 15.9 min 2.7 min 6.7 min .9 min Friday, September 13, 13
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23. First attempt at integrating with another team Friday, September 13, 13
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25. 50% Chance to be done within 9 days Friday, September 13, 13
26. 50% Chance to be done within 9 days 80% Chance to be done within 19 days Friday, September 13, 13
27. 50% Chance to be done within 9 days 80% Chance to be done within 19 days 95% Chance to be done within 34 days Friday, September 13, 13
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29. “We’re finishing between 5 and 7 stories per week. With 60 stories on the backlog, we’ll have them all done in about 8-12 weeks.” Friday, September 13, 13
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32. So what about... • Test Coverage • Cyclomatic Complexity • estimates vs actuals Friday, September 13, 13
33. Keep your metrics... • easy to calculate • easy to understand • useful for the business Friday, September 13, 13
34. Nayan Hajratwala @nhajratw nayan@chikli.com Friday, September 13, 13