metrics « silk and spinach

the big DIP

June 4, 2007

Henrik Mårtensson's concept of "DIP" (design-in-process) can give a useful measure of the investment we have to write off when requirements change before release

throughput accounting measurement units

May 24, 2006

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A look at the business measures in ToC's "throughput accounting", trying to understand the units used to express them

lack of visibility can be the bottleneck

May 16, 2006

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When diagnosing a system's throughput, its worth remembering that the constraint is as likely to be in knowledge management or communication as anywhere

yet more on metrics for coaching

May 3, 2006

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The best measures of a coach's effectiveness may be trends, such as "falling cycle time"

more on performance metrics

April 21, 2006

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A lot of us are discussing or reading about measuring the value provided by coaches; maybe a consensus will emerge, but we aren't there yet

process improvement metrics – some questions

April 3, 2006

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It seems to me that "process improvement" for software development is pointless. Instead, we need to think in terms of the team's effectiveness in helping the greater organisation's profitability. In that light, how can we measure the value provided by an agile software development coach? I have no idea, but I do have a load of questions

designing metrics at SPA2006

March 27, 2006

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The second session I attended at SPA2006 was Designing metrics for agile process improvement, run by Jason Gorman and Duncan Pierce. Their thesis is that metrics are difficult to design, and making a mistake can lead an organisation down the wrong path entirely. To demonstrate this, they divided us into four groups and assigned us… [Read more…]