Chapter 10. Measuring your team against the agile principles

This chapter covers

  • Breaking down the agile principles into measurable pieces
  • Applying the techniques in this book to the agile principles
  • Associating metrics with the agile principles
  • Measuring your team’s adherence to the agile principles

If you ask the CIOs of most Fortune 500 companies if their teams are practicing agile development, they’ll probably all say yes. If you sit on any of the development teams in those companies, you’ll notice that they operate differently to varying degrees. That’s okay; in fact, one of the great things about agile development frameworks is that they allow development teams to move quickly in their own context.

Often as teams evolve their agile ...

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