Performance Management

Why most progress reports reflect effort instead of progress, the resulting effect it has in our industry, and what to do about it.

Gojko Adzic explains why most products end up not doing well when their value is measured as the effort invested. He clearly points out that measuring the story points delivered by a product is a delusional way to determine its value. Rather organizations should track progress to measure its value and picture metrics like adding features as "the effort invested" in the product.

Get to know the most valuable Lean metrics, analytics charts and diagrams to improve your workflow efficiency.

One of the conundrums that exist within the working environment is how to effectively measure the success rate of your workflow and improve it. Kanban metrics are necessary for understanding how a team is performing and where they need to improve. The article explains several essential kanban reporting metrics that give you hard data on the productivity, efficiency, and reliability of your production process.

How to effectively measure your agile transformation journey.

Output-based metrics, such as team velocity, is what most companies use to measure effectiveness - often overlooking the entire delivery system. Andy Cleff shares meaningful and healthy ways to gain insights into the business outcomes, outlining reasons to measure, its purpose, and anti-patterns.

Teams that only look at improvements within their own team are bound to be less effective than they can be.

An insightful text explaining why a team should not only focus on indoor improvements after a retrospective but also check on making improvements on the organizational level. It notes that If you only improve things that are within the team then you miss out on many opportunities to improve. And most things that impede the team from having effective and enjoyable Sprints are caused by issues outside of the team. Read the text to understand why Scrum masters should align to make changes together across their team borders.

Tracking and analyzing sound Lean and Agile metrics can improve transparency across a team and help identify ways to improve the way your team is working.