Agile software development methodology metrics
Delivered February 20, 2020. Contributor: ChristineD
Goals
Determine best practices around leading process measurements or improvement frameworks for measuring a product team's agile software development methodology. Obtain also some examples from competitors on how they use process quality and efficiency measurements and how they compare to other companies within and outside the healthcare industry.
Early Findings
Agile Software Development Methodology Metrics
- Some of the most common key performance indicator (KPI) that are typically used to gauge the effectiveness of a product team's agile software development methodology include "velocity, sprint burndown, cycle time, cumulative flow, flow efficiency, code coverage by automated tests, test automation against manual testing, McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity (MCC), and code churn."
- For any agile initiatives, it is also crucial to monitor both business metrics and agile metrics.
- Business metrics are all about whether the product addresses the requirements of the market.
- As for the agile metrics, these gauge various elements in the product development process.
- Sprint burndown is one of the agile methodology metrics.
- Sprint refers to the time-blocked development stages that were set by scrum teams as part of the agile methodology process.
- When starting a sprint, the team predicts the amount of work that they can get done during a sprint.
- They then generate a sprint burndown report that monitors the completion of tasks as the sprint progresses.
Proprietary Database Search Results
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Summary of Findings:
Our initial one hour of research provided some of the best practices and metrics for measuring a product team's agile software development methodology.
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