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Management loves the idea of metrics. Project teams, though, hate it: no one likes to be examined like a bug under a magnifying glass. It’s such a shame that this is the perception, because constructive metrics are a project team’s best defense against insanity. When well done, metrics practice is like the martial art of Aikido, which uses an opponents own energy and momentum - and in this case self-interest and responsibilities - to overcome them. This course explores constructive metrics at the release level that can be used as leading indicators.

Presentation Description

The software development industry has a poor track record for developing and employing effective metrics. Most of the metrics employed are tangential to the true goal of software development (which is delivering business value) and are thus ill-regarded by developers, especially agile developers.

However, good metrics are important to management, in order to understand status and progress of their teams, and to make projections into the future. Therefore, we must provide meaningful metrics that give useful information to the business — but also enforce agile values.

Have you ever seen a pertinent conflict that defied every attempt to be solved? You may think that you have solved the conflict but it reappears after some time.

For some of these tough conflicts, it is necessary for people to change their behaviour. That is exactly the niche where invisible barriers hinder improvement – the niche that we want to attack with this tutorial.