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Agile Leader’s Guide to Metrics

Measuring Outcome, not Output

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Language:  English
Project Manager’s analysis on some of the metrics used to measure projects in an attempt to resolve some of the shortcoming of traditional metrics, like Earned Value, Function Points and Story Points.
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A project is defined by cost, time and scope to deliver an output. That output may or may not become an outcome and increase the profit or the likelihood of achieving the goals of the organization. Whilst everyone agrees that greater Agility is essential to adapt the outcome of the project to changes in customer needs, when looking at ‘successes’ from a customer perspective we need to accept that success is not defined only by meeting cost, time or scope targets set for the project. This book is an analysis on some of the metrics used to measure projects in an attempt to resolve some of the shortcoming of traditional metrics, like Earned Value, Function Points and Story Points.

About the Author

Dan is an experienced Project Manager with over 35 years commercial experience. He started his career as a specialist in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) following his involvement in research during university studies. After a successful career in research when he also published articles and books on various topics, mainly Computer Aided Design & Manufacturing and Computer Graphics he managed large development teams and then moved to Project Management and is now specialized in Business Transformations Projects.

  • About the author
  • Introduction
  1. Measurements
    1. What is measurement and why we do it?
    2. Measurement in everyday life
    3. Measuring for process improvement
    4. Measurement in an Agile Enterprise
  2. Establish the context
    1. Measurement in Agile Environments
    2. Define why we measure
    3. Define what we measure
    4. Define how we measure
    5. Using the results
  3. Project versus Product
    1. What is the difference
    2. Agile Projects, fact or fiction
    3. Measuring the Output not the Outcome
  4. Current Approaches
    1. Product Metrics
    2. Project Metrics
    3. Process Metrics
  5. Feature Points Revisited
    1. What are Feature Points?
    2. Why use Feature Points
  • Endnotes
About the Author
Dan

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