Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from “Waterfalling Backward”

Metrics

Given the widely disparate areas that teams can focus on for improvement, there are no common metrics that cover every possible instance. For teams that try value stream mapping, you can see if the efficiency of a given process increased after you took action by creating another VSM of the same process and generating new data. If you try improving your builds, you can track build success rates and time required for builds. You can track automation coverage improvements and more.

Lastly—and I know that this is not really a metric—but celebrate your improvements! Making improvements usually takes hard work, so post a team board that displays your improvements for all to see. As I previously said, nothing motivates more success like actual ...