The document outlines principles of agile metrics including measuring outcomes over activities, focusing on value over volume, analyzing trends rather than single data points, prioritizing the team over individuals, providing meaningful insights, having a balanced set of metrics, avoiding comparisons between teams, incentivizing the right behaviors, making metrics difficult to manipulate, watching out for "watermelons" or metrics that are green on the outside but red on the inside, and recognizing that metrics are a means to an end rather than the goal.

1. 25th
May, 2016
PRINCIPLES OF
AGILE METRICS
Sunil Mundra
Principal Consultant

2. WHY HAVE METRICS?

3. WHY HAVE METRICS?
• Measure Outcomes
• Guide Decision Making
• Influence Behaviours

4. THE PRINCIPLES

5. Outcome Over
Activity
THE PRINCIPLES

6. Value Over
Volume
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7. Trends Over
Single Numbers
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8. Team Over
Individual
THE PRINCIPLES

9. Provide Meaningful
Insights
THE PRINCIPLES

10. Have A
Balanced Set
THE PRINCIPLES

11. Not Compare Teams
THE PRINCIPLES

12. Incentivize
‘Right’ Behaviours
THE PRINCIPLES

13. Difficult To
‘Game’
THE PRINCIPLES

14. Watch Out For
‘Watermelons’
THE PRINCIPLES

15. NOT TO FORGET….

17. THEY ARE A MEANS,
NOT AN END GOAL.
Metrics Are Useful,
But…

18. THANK YOU

19. QUESTIONS?