Agile & KPIs :: Conferencia Agile Spain 2014

1. Agile
&
KPIs

2. Who
am
I?
Pedro
Gustavo
Torres
@_pedro_torres
|
pedrogustavotorres.com

3. An
Agile
Geek!
2014

4. Agile
is
Early
delivery
of
business
value
(credits
to
Henrik
Kniberg
and
Alistair
Cockburn)

5. KPIs
are
Key
Performance
Indicators
(performance
measurement)

6. An
example
of
KPIs
in
a
factory
• Number
of
items
done
in
a
period
of
Lme
• Number
of
items
done
without
defects
in
a
period
of
Lme

7. An
example
of
tradiLonal
KPIs
in
soNware
development
• KLOC
• Team
meeLng
deadlines
• SMART
_______
(insert
yours
here)

8. When
you
try
to
mix
Agile
and
KPIs…
• Points
done?
• Points
commiUed
vs
Points
delivered?

9. …When
you
try
to
mix
Agile
and
KPIs…
• Number
of
User
Stories
done?
• Number
of
User
Stories
commiUed
vs
delivered?

10. …When
you
try
to
mix
Agile
and
KPIs
Hours
esLmated
vs
Hours
consumed?

11. Crap!
• Misleading
informaLon
• Bad
decisions
• Unfairness
/
DemoLvaLon
/
FrustraLon

12. Is
your
team
Working
for
the
KPIs
or
are
the
KPIs
working
for
your
team?

13. Measure
what
your
team
does
• Number
of
defects
per
release
• Code
coverage
• Number
of
releases
vs
rollbacks
• Number
of
broken
builds
(and
how
long
to
put
it
back
to
green)
• Availability
and
response
Lme
of
your
product

14. Don’t
measure
what
you
force
your
team
to
do
Don’t
be
lazy!

15. So
Agile
KPIs
• Don’t
really
exist!
• But
happy
teams
do!

16. Focus
yourself
• On
having
happy
teams
• So
that
happy
teams
can
focus
on
delivering
early
business
value

17. Thank
you
J
Not
everything
that
can
be
counted
counts,
and
not
everything
that
counts
can
be
counted
Albert
Einstein
William
Bruce
Cameron