The key to a successful agile journey is to identify concrete, measurable goals. Whether your challenge is to improve software quality, time to market, productivity, customer satisfaction, innovation, employee engagement, or some combination of these, agile metrics are crucial to your success. How do you use agile metrics early and often to know that you’re going in the right direction? And how do you know when your goals have been met? This set of slides shows you how to do it using VersionOne. Watch the recording here: http://bit.ly/1m1nXEl

1. Measuring the Success of Your
Agile Transformation
Part 2
June 25, 2014
#AgileLIVE

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Moderator
Andy Powell
SPC, CSM
Product Evangelist
VersionOne

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A Few Logistics…
Claim 1 PDU
Provider ID – 3576
Webinar ID – V1045
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Featured Presenter
Jerry Odenwelder, Product Manager
– 20+ years experience in software development
– Designed and built distributed applications for
the telecom, banking, insurance, travel,
manufacturing, and software industries
– Agile publications/presentations
• “Product Owners are from Mars, Testers are from Venus….or are they?” –
Software Test Professionals Conference October 2011 with JoEllen Carter
• “Feature This: Transforming Borland’s Development Process with Scrum” –
Cutter IT Journal 2006 with Matthew Gelbwaks
• Empowering Agile Development with CaliberRM, DevCon 2005
– Scrum Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner
– jerry.odenwelder@versionone.com
– @jerryodenwelder

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A Quick Review

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A Quick Review

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A Quick Review

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A Quick Review

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Transformations: Complicated at Best

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"Great things are done
by a series of small
things brought
together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Transformations: Deconstructed

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Transformations: Measured Iteratively
“If it's hard, do it more often and you'll get
good at it.”
– Mary Poppendieck

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• Iterative (Scrum/XP)
– Estimate
– Burndowns/Ups
– Velocity
• Flow (Kanban/Lean)
– Cycle Time
– Cumulative Flow
– Work in Progress (WIP)
Common Agile Metrics

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Context for the Remaining Discussion
http://scaledagileframework.com/

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The Foundation of Transformation – Team Metrics

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Iterative Process Team Measures
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Iteration Backlog
One Iteration
One Day
Working
Software2
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5
3
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Release Backlog

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Kanban Team Measures
Working
Software
Release Backlog Pulled as space is available

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Team Metrics in VersionOne

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Scaling your Transformation: Program Metrics

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Scaling your Transformation: Program
Product Backlog
Feature
Feature
Feature
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Iteration Backlog
One Iteration
One Day
Working
Software
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1
5
3
3
Release Backlog
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1
5
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Release Backlog
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Release Backlog

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Program Metrics in VersionOne

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Scaling your Transformation: Portfolio Metrics

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Scaling your Transformation: Portfolio
Initiatives
Initiatives
Initiatives
Product Backlog
Feature
Feature
Feature
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3
Iteration Backlog
One Iteration
One Day
Working
Software2
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1
5
3
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Release Backlog

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Portfolio Metrics in VersionOne

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• Definition of Done
• Team Norms
• Continuous Integration
• Automated Testing
• Stop the Line Culture
Other Beneficial Practices

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• It’s not the data, it’s how you use it
that matters
• Measurement effects behavior
• Measure outcomes, not output
• Don’t compare teams or individuals
Reminders

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• Correlation does not imply causation
• Past performance does not guarantee
future results
“If you torture the data long enough,
it will confess.”
- Ronald Coase
Caveats

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Q&A
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• Estimate
• Burndown/Ups
– Project/Release
– Sprint
• Velocity
Common Iterative Metrics and Measures

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• Work in Progress (WIP)
• Cycle Time
• Cumulative Flow
Common Kanban Indicators