yet more on metrics for coaching
The best measures of a coach's effectiveness may be trends, such as "falling cycle time"
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designing metrics at SPA2006
March 27, 2006
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…]
never tolerate a red bar
January 24, 2006
Tolerating the red bar is costing us time and throughput on a daily basis. And who know what deeper problems lie behind those "random" failures...?
running tested features are not enough
October 21, 2005
Iterations should deliver running tested features. But which features?
agile, top down
July 30, 2005
In which Ron Jeffries tells us in simple terms - perhaps too simple - how to become agile
meetings, meetings
May 19, 2005
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potetial, that word would be: "meetings."
business automation gone wrong
October 20, 2004
In which cost accounting trumps usability in the design of a business application
local optimisation
October 6, 2004
In which cost accounting at the department level leads to false positives in the search for productivity improvements
I'm Kevin Rutherford, from Macclesfield in the UK. I'm an independent agile software coach and mentor, specialising in test-driven development, agile, lean and the theory of constraints.
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