Agile Metrics

What are Agile Metrics?

Agile metrics help agile development teams to measure the development process, gauging productivity, work quality, predictability, and health of the team and products progress.

Types

• Lean metrics – Firstly, it focuses on ensuring a flow of value from the organization to its customers. Moreover, it eliminates wasteful activities. Common metrics incorporate lead time and cycle time.
• Kanban metrics – Secondly, focus on workflow, organizing and prioritizing work and accomplishing it. A common metric is a cumulative flow.
• Scrum metrics – Lastly, focuses on the predictable delivery of working software to customers. Common metrics are burndown chart and team velocity.

Importance

• Since end goal is to deliver working software to users, agile methodologies lay special emphasis on quality. The quality display is internal to customers, such as code quality, maintainability, and technical debt.
• It helps teams evaluate and envisage the effort spent on software quality. For example, the escaped defects metric measures, across versions, sprints or product lines, how many bugs were discovered in production – whereas ideally bugs should be discovered and fixed during the development stage.

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