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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Would gamification increase employee engagement with time tracking?
A typical difficulty in implementing time tracking in companies is that employees are rarely engaged with time tracking tasks, seeing them as a waste of time. I'm wondering if a gamification approach ...
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What are some commonly tracked metrics in Kanban?
I'm currently working with a development group that has a variety of project management approaches. They use a Kanban board for tracking work with a constantly re-prioritized backlog, they have ...
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Leading (predictive) Metrics?
I was wondering what useful leading metrics people might be using to predict failures/issues after release. (I'm assuming SW projects).
There are lots of lagging metrics that capture what has ...
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How can I track the work done by a remote team of coders?
I just started a project with a team of coders working remotely. I trust that they will get the job done, but I want a way to track their progress day to day. I know they are using a Git repository to ...
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What SMART goals can I set for myself as a new Scrum Master?
I'm transitioning from a Project Manager to a Scrum Master, and I need to come up with some examples of SMART goals for the new role. The goals are for my Annual Performance Reviews where I will be ...
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How do you measure risk?
As a related question to: What's the best definition and explanation of project risk?
What is the most useful way of measuring risk? I've been thought it's best to measure it in additional monetary ...
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What are some agile (scrum) metrics? [closed]
I'm interested in learning what types of metrics can be used in the following areas:
Productivity
Quality
Responsiveness
Customer Satisfaction
Employee Satisfaction
Predictability
...and what makes ...
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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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Team velocity fluctuates a lot, how to find the root cause?
I have plotted my team burn up chart and its velocity per iteration. To me it looks really bad (velocity fluctuates a lot). What should I be looking for to diagnose the root cause of this behaviour?
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Best Metrics to Show the Value of Fixing Bugs
My software development group has spent a significant amount of time recently on fixing existing bugs instead of working on new development.
Using our bug tracking software, I can get data on how ...
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What metrics to keep through out the life of the project?
Apart from the regular cost/scope/time metrics that every project contains, I am interested in knowing if I can include a few more metrics that will trigger alerts on future projects.
Let me ...
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Team Management by Metrics
Metrics are valuable tools to measure performance and to manage projects/people. Nevertheless, I have started to encounter certain issues with regards to the measurement of my team's performance.
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How do you retroactively measure the actual difficulty of a requirement?
Before implementation, we use experience to estimate the difficulty of requirement implementation.
After the code has been tested and implemented, I want to examine a metric to measure the actual ...
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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 to create metrics that can't be "gamed?"
I've seen managers create metrics that worked, and ones that had unintended side-effects. For example, one manager measured his IT team based on how quickly "help request tickets" were closed. Service ...
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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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How can I improve measurement of Sprint Goals that are based on soft skills or communication processes?
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I am currently coaching a non-development team on Scrum practices. The team is focused on back-office, administrative processes. This makes the work somewhat of a pull-queue where Kanban ...
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Is a project manager responsible for completing a project on time?
Of course, a project manager should strive to complete a project on time, but is it correct to say that it is a project manager's professional responsibility? I mean that no matter how professional a ...
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Is tracking billable time for Scrum ceremonies in JIRA an anti-pattern?
We use Story Points for estimating complexity of User Stories, but we bill hours to the client. This is the very first Scrum project within our company, and we don't have enough data to calculate a ...
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Is gauging a team's performance using scores assigned by other stakeholders valuable?
We have a new way of gauging teams.
All the individuals involved (business owners, managers, stakeholders) except the team itself gauge how they felt the team did using a score. If the score is ...
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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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Is it possible to track velocity on a waterfall project?
Assuming similar work has been done in the past, can velocity be measured on a waterfall project? If that isn't the case, is there a more appropriate capacity management tool on a waterfall project?
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How to report performance of a software development project?
What metrics do you use in order to report performance of a software development project? And how do you collect them?
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What is the name for this type of chart?
I love using burndown charts, but they only work for finite chunks of work.
Since I also help out groups that do continuous operational work, I wanted to develop a similar tool that would work for ...
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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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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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How can I measure the performance of individuals within Scrum?
I know it should not be done, but I'm tasked by my company to measure the performance of each person on the Scrum team. What would be a "not so bad" way of doing it?
P.S. I cannot let the team decide ...
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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 Do You Calculate Schedule Compression Ratio?
Schedule Compression Ratio
How do you calculate schedule compression ratio?
When and why would you do it? What does it tell you? What benefit does this bring to a project manager?
Are there ...
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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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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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Trying to develop a Project Health Check tool - How can I show the Health of a Project in Dollars and Hours?
My projects generally have 6 areas (Engineering, Fabrication, Assembly etc). Each area has been allotted a budget for a particular project (dollars and hours).
Every week, I get a report on how much ...
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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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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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What is a "typical" duration for how long it takes to start up a project?
We are trying to put some statistics together internally to get a better handle on how long it takes to complete pre-project work for business improvement projects. This work includes work corresponds ...
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What are the metrics for a good SRS (Software Requirement Specification)?
I have been searching but all that I have found is the characteristics of a good SRS (Software Requirement Specification). What are the metrics that you could use to ensure that the set of ...
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How to manage sprint velocity when someone does both design & development?
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I work at a startup where I'm the only designer (UI/UX/Visual), however, we don't have an actual front-end developer, so most of the HTML/CSS development also falls on me as I'm half-...
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How to evaluate task duration?
Another question came up about estimation of budget and time plan estimates for a project. In my answer, I stated that the ground knowledge for time estimate was experience. Does anyone knows a more ...
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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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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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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 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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Tools and methods to report and quantify delays
My question is really about right metrics to report when looking at a set of projects and functionality of project management tools which help in highlighting these metrics.
We are trying to do ...
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How can I visually represent interdependant resources?
This one may be tricky to explain, but here's the use case. Our organization aims to reduce the amount of "time-stealing" by other staff. We want to eventually see this visual indicator show less ...
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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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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 can I add quality metrics in my project?
As PMO, my manager is requiring me to measure both delivery and quality metrics. I can easily measure delivery by monitoring slip rates. I am having difficulty on measuring quality.
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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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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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