20140610-RallyON 2014 - Agile Metrics Panel
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The document details a panel discussion on the role of agile metrics in organizations, led by Mehul Kapadia, who emphasizes the importance of metrics in driving continuous improvement and organizational effectiveness. Key points include the significance of throughput over velocity as a valuable metric and the necessity to understand metrics in context to avoid pitfalls. The discussion highlights the need for proper root cause analysis and offers strategies for effective metric utilization in agile practices.
20140610-RallyON 2014 - Agile Metrics Panel
- 1. The Agile Metrics Panel Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 Event: RallyON 2014 Panelists: Mehul Kapadia, Hope Lynch, Rob Uhlrich
- 2. Introduction • Mehul Kapadia leads Agile PMO organization as Director of Project Management at Identifix. • Over the span of his career, he has been instrumental in the execution of large scale, global enterprise software implementation and integration projects in industries ranging from Automotive to Consumer products. • He has lead Organizational and Team Level transformations to Agile. He has coached Executives, Teams and Individuals on Agile principles (Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban) and rolled out SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). • Mehul believes in continuous learning and continuous improvement. He has relentlessly pursued this passion to influence improvements in organizational effectiveness in the roles of internal change agent/coach as well as external consultant. • Mehul holds MBA from Brigham Young University and Bachelor of Engineering from University of Mumbai. He is also Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner and SAFe Program Consultant. © Mehul Kapadia
- 3. Role of Agile Metrics in your Organization • Metrics take the emotion out and set the stage for tough discussions with end result of the continuous process of behavior change from developers to executives. • We have used them to have training decisions to organization change decisions after undergoing appropriate root cause analysis. • We use appropriate metrics at team level, program level and portfolio level. © Mehul Kapadia
- 4. Our Most Valuable Metric • Velocity is the not the point, it’s the throughput. • Throughput Points/Dev/PSI – (For Features Accepted) • It’s one metric that sums up the PSI state. We want throughput for business. With normalized story points, the aggregation of points only for features accepted gives us the correct picture of PSI throughput. • It provides the great starting discussion for problem solving workshop. Most common root causes are WIP and Dependency management issues. © Mehul Kapadia NormalizedPointsCapacity/Dev/PSI ReleaseTrain DeveloperStrength PointsAccepted (ForFeaturesAccepted) Throughput Points/Dev/PSI (ForFeaturesAccepted) ThroughputDelivered% (Points) (ForFeaturesAccepted) 45 60 478 8 20%
- 5. Why it provides the real state of PSI? • Supports Organizational goals, measures alignment of strategy execution to development output and sums up the issues affecting throughput. • What percentage matters – 80%, 40% or 20% ? © Mehul Kapadia PSI2014-02Status PointsScheduled (Firm) PointsScheduled (Stretch) PointsAccepted PointsAccpted% PSIPlannedCapacity (Points) PointsScheuled 2441 141 1958 80% 2705 PSI2014-02Status FeaturesScheduled (Firm) FeaturesScheduled (Stretch) FeaturesAccepted ThoruhputDelivered% (FeaturesAccepted) FeatureScheuled 100 15 40 40% NormalizedPointsCapacity/Dev/PSI ReleaseTrain DeveloperStrength PointsAccepted (ForFeaturesAccepted) Throughput Points/Dev/PSI (ForFeaturesAccepted) ThroughputDelivered% (Points) (ForFeaturesAccepted) 45 60 478 8 20%
- 6. Pitfalls of Metrics • Metrics should be the starting point of discussion to understand the context and root causes. • They identify the focus areas and teams where we need to channel our efforts. • When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be good measure. – Goodhart’s law © Mehul Kapadia
- 7. Questions and Contact Questions: ??? Contact: Mehul Kapadia • LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/mehulkapadia/ • Twitter - @mehulpkapadia