Chapter 1. Measuring agile performance

This chapter covers

  • Struggling with agile performance measurement
  • Finding objective data for measuring agile performance
  • Answering performance questions with data you’re generating
  • Adopting agile performance measurement

There isn’t a silver-bullet metric that will tell you if your agile teams are performing as well as they can. Performance improvement is made possible by incorporating what you learn about your team’s performance into how your team operates at regular intervals. Collecting and analyzing data in the form of metrics is an objective way to learn more about your team and a way to measure any adjustments you decide to make to your team’s behavior.

1.1. Collect, measure, react, repeat—the ...

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