Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
1. Measuring agile teams
Chapter 1. Measuring agile performance
1.1. Collect, measure, react, repeat—the feedback loop
1.1.1. What are metrics?
1.2. Why agile teams struggle with measurement
1.2.1. Problem: agile definitions of measurement are not straightforward
1.2.2. Problem: agile focuses on a product, not a project
1.2.3. Problem: data is all over the place without a unified view
1.3. What questions can metrics answer, and where do I get the data to answer them?
1.3.1. Project tracking
1.3.2. Source control
1.3.3. The build system
1.3.4. System monitoring
1.4. Analyzing what you have and what to do with the data
1.4.1. Figuring out what matters
1.4.2. Visualizing your data
1.5. Applying lessons learned
1.6. Taking ownership and measuring your team
1.6.1. Getting buy-in
1.6.2. Metric naysayers
1.7. Summary
Chapter 2. Observing a live project
2.1. A typical agile project
2.1.1. How Blastamo Music used agile
2.2. A problem arises
2.3. Determining the right solution
2.4. Analyzing and presenting the data
2.4.1. Solving the problems
2.4.2. Visualizing the final product for leadership
2.5. Building on the system and improving their processes
2.5.1. Using data to improve what they do every day
2.6. Summary
2. Collecting and analyzing your team’s data
Chapter 3. Trends and data from project-tracking systems
3.1. Typical agile measurements using PTS data
3.1.1. Burn down