Questions tagged [metrics]
In PM, metrics are measures of things. Defining, selecting, applying, or calculating measurements of progress or activity on a project.
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Is velocity a valid measure of team and process improvement?
I've asked this question to few scrum masters: "How do you tell, that your team is improving? How do you tell that actions taken during retrospective result in real improvement in efficiency/...
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How to make Agile metrics useful to stakeholders and project managers
I have started using Actionable Agile lately. This tool is essentially used for Agile Metrics e.g. Cycle time, throughput, monte-carlo predictability etc.
Does anyone know how I can translate this ...
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Why is customer churn rate calculated in relation to users at the beginning of a period, not people at beginning plus acquired?
Let's take the customer churn definition from this article, that I have also seen in other sources.
Let’s do the maths with one example: On January 1st you have 1000 customers. 100 of them are not ...
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Did i input the correct ACWP, BCWS and BCWP values? [EVMS]
I know i performed the calculations correctly but I'm not confident on the 3 values in red
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How can we track Business as Usual (BAU) work?
My team, which consists of network architects and developers has been running Scrum for the past couple of months and the biggest issue we have is how we're supposed to record BAU work.
We consider ...
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Can code base metrics be used for budgeting for software engineering or code maintenance?
Recently my manager asked my team for some metrics on the code base, in order to budget for my team. These are the metrics requested:
Number of source code files
Code Lines
Comment Lines
Blank Lines
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How will team changes impact velocity of a Scrum project?
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If there are 8 members in a team assigned to complete the project. 20% of the team left during the particular sprint. Does the velocity change? If so, what would the velocity changes be?
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How can the team improve the likelihood of completing each increment?
If a Development Team doesn't have the skills or tools to create a “Done" increment, are there techniques that can be used immediately that will allow progress on the increment to be easier to track? ...
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How to count the amount of times a JIRA issue has been in a specific state?
In my project one of the metrics we want to use is the amount of times a JIRA issue is moved back from "QA" to "Development." We call it "comeback rate."
Looking for % of items that were resolved by ...
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Velocity calculation based on number of user stories completed in a sprint
In one of the projects, the velocity calculation is done based on the number of user stories that the team is delivering in each sprint.
They are using story points to size but still the velocity is ...
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What metrics can we generate from t-shirt sizes (rather than story points) when estimating user stories?
If I am using T-shirt sizing for my user story estimates, what metrics I can measure and report? We currently use a Sprint burn-down chart when using story points.
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What metrics should be used for tracking the quality of research project?
It is known that software development tasks should be controlled by some project management metrics, that show the progress of work at each particular moment of time.
What metrics are better to be ...
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Agile (“Scrum”) “Metrics” Question
My team has recently transitioned from essentially zero project management (other than the "put out fires as they happen while trying to stay on top of current workload") to something more Agile with ...
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If you measure requirement volatility, how do you handle inconsistent requirement size?
I would like to measure requirement volatility but the problem is that our specification is not consistent in size of requirements. Sometimes, one requirement describes a whole workflow. Sometimes it ...
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What Does “Commitment” Look Like with Agile Projects?
When engaging with a client on a project that will be developed using agile methodologies, what is being promised in the delivery of the project? How do you know if that promise is objectively met?
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How to use historical cycle time to forecast project completion
I have been inspired by Daniel Vacanti's talk (link) about using cycle time to forecast project completion.
So I collected the following user stories metric in the course of four sprints:
Average ...
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Metrics to measure teamwork / team spirit
I recently started as manager of a team of 10 developers that did manage itself before. I noticed that they do not act that well as a team but rather everybody fights for his own. There are a lot of ...
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Sprint planning, review: velocity,capacity, forecast and how this values relate?
I'm fairly new to Scrum and its sprint planning/retro (etc), our team today was trying to calculate velocity, capacity and forecast for the following sprint, but we just realised that no one actually ...
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How to measure bug incidence in Production?
We have a fully automated deploy process but as we now sometimes we break things.
When this happens the developer just apply a hot fix in (branch, fix and opens a PR) the trunk development. As you ...
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Cycle Time - Story vs Task?
I am trying to measure the cycle time of my team. The problem is that the issues (tasks or stories) have very different sizes. Sometimes someone just creates a task like: "Create a backend api", that ...
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If SAFe must be continuously calibrated and measured in ideal days, why does the framework say recalibration is unnecessary?
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SAFe says you don't need to recalibrate estimation, but requires estimates and other metrics to be normalized across one or more Agile Release Trains. Context, question rationale, and the ...
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A simple estimation accuracy formula that always yields 0-100?
I'm just beginning, and despite my search, I cannot find any simple formula that would return a number between 0 and 100%, i.e. I do not care whether there was over or underestimation.
The simplest ...
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Measuring code productivity between team members
First question, so here goes!
Between two programmers on the same team, one has produced more code but more defects, whilst the other has produced around 20% less code but significantly less defects ...
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How can I track time spent by assignees on each ticket in JIRA?
I want to track time spent by each agent on each task on a JIRA Kanban board. If an agent was assigned a task and he assigns it back to me, I want to track the time he spent assigned to the ticket. Is ...
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Should we count a story that is no longer required by Client/PO/Management in our velocity?
We have finished a story which is no longer required by the Product Owner (PO) or Management. The completed story is not going to add any business value. What should we do in this case? Should we ...
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How much volatility should be acceptable among Scrum teams?
There is varying volatility across Scrum teams. I understand that volatility can be caused by many variable factors. The table below shows how much it's varying across teams:
Velocity ...
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Scrum , Velocity calculation and Sprint Calculation
Following figures showing the performance of a Scrum team during the first 6 sprints of a project.
Sprint: 15 SP
Sprint: 5 SP
Sprint: 20 SP
Sprint: 15 SP
Sprint: 25 SP
Sprint. 10 SP
Question 1: ...
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How to calculate velocity when using fibonacci estimates
We are using Scrum and our user stories are estimated using the Fibonacci sequence. I understand the benefit of using the Fibonacci sequence for estimates. In all references to velocity it is ...
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What is your focus: increasing metrics or improving processes?
I noticed (in our company) that Scrum Masters have one of the approaches:
Start with metrics and work on improving the numbers: e.g. a new user story comes up during sprint, the team might reject it ...
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How to measure efficiency of tasks for a very small project
I am a programmer using sharepoint, and I am the lead and the project manager since I do not have subordinates under me. My boss is non-technical and doesn't have much visibility in what I do and just ...
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What is the difference between metric and KPI?
I know that KPI is a metric and metric is not necessarily a KPI, but I still don't understand the difference between these two. Let's take Periscope application as an example. What are possible KPI ...
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How to measure the value of Product management?
There are 2 types of product management broadly - New Product and Existing products. For an existing product, the task of the product manager is to increase revenue, in a declining market share ...
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Sprint Goal and Failure of a Sprint
My organisation is pushing for strictness on what they consider a Sprint Failure or not.
They have decided that if there are any User Stories not fully completed (as per the DoD) at the end of the ...
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How does a scrum team measure its productivity against its productivity pre-scrum?
In our company, we are moving some teams to scrum. Before scrum, it seems we don't have a lot of visibility into the productivity of the teams, and we don't necessarily have a way to measure the ...
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Relevant metrics for issue closure estimation
What metrics can influence or help with such an estimation?
I am mostly interested in applying such metrics on GitHub projects, using their issues history. Based on how fast they solved their ...
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PMO Value Add Metrics
What would be the best group of metrics to use to measure PMO value in services organization? What do you use in your org,if any? By this I am talking about more of the soft metrics like repeat ...
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How do you measure time units in sprint velocity?
I am trying to get my head around "Story points" using the Scrum methodology. As a starting point, I have been following the following article:
http://scrummethodology.com/scrum-effort-estimation-and-...
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How can I calculate performance evaluation criteria for a software team?
I am looking for a theoretical formula which can evaluate the performance of an employee. I have figured out these measurable factors on which the performance can be calculated. Can anyone tell me a ...
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How to check for soft skills during recruitement?
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In the past year or so we have been scaling in team size and I am responsible together with our CTO for recruiting candidates of all types of technical background (Frontend, backend, ...
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What formula should I use to calculate a target date in google docs, based on total man-days, if the size of team will change during development?
I'm having a complete brain fart trying to figure this out. Let's say I have 600 man-days left of work to complete, and this is located in cell E3. I want to calculate the target date for completion ...
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Method for assessing risk in a release
I have been tasked to develop a metrics program specifically designed to look at how risky a release is from a code base volatility perspective.
The director requesting this information is working ...
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Cumulative Flow
This project--developing web-based modules--is currently in its testing phase. On a daily basis, the team captures testing results and progress using a cumulative flow diagram. The testing phase is ...
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metrics for bug fixing / learning legacy system
We are a new team of about a dozen developers in our not-very-IT company tasked with reshoring/onshoring/insourcing (bringing into the company what a vendor has developed for us) a large (10M+ LOC?) ...
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Is a zigzag, sawtooth velocity a problem if the trend is consistent?
I am supporting and coaching several scrum teams working on different areas of the same software project. Sprints are 4 weeks long, except that sprints spanning the Christmas/New Year holidays are 5 ...
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What is the value of tracking hours in a Sprint burn-down chart?
The burn down chart will have story points on the Y-Axis and duration (number of days) on the X-Axis. My team is able to complete the stories almost at the end of the Sprint. This means the burn down ...
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Metrics for changing a process
I am trying to automate a manual process in my organization. There's one component which has a very repetitive coding. So i decided to automate it. Before jumping on to the automation, I want to ...
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How often should a development team review code quality metrics so that we keep reasonable control over technical debt and code quality
Is there any recommended practice for how frequently code quality metrics should be reviewed by the team? I'm not sure how often should we be conducting a review of code quality metrics to look for ...
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How do I elicit measurable business objectives in the real world?
A very common theme in project management/software engineering resources is that goals should be SMART. This question is targeted to the "M" in SMART: Measurable.
The examples commonly found in ...
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What's the best way of writing user stories about “improve this metric” if I'm not sure how much improvement is possible?
Say you have a piece of software that you know can be improved on various quantifiable metrics (time to boot, CPU and memory usage, latency for various actions, accuracy of recognition tasks, etc.), ...
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How to determine the business value of a new product functionality?
As a part of job interview for Product Management position, I am asked to propose a new product functionality for existing product, determine its business value and calculate the increase on MAU(...
