RTFM - A Metric For Agility

discipline “ do, or do not … there is no try”

results goal oriented draws performance influences behaviour

priceless goal context : happiness metric : gifts received between pay days

sugar daddy goal context : happiness metric : gifts received between pay days

satisfaction goal context : customer service metric : available time

shit goal context : customer service metric : available time

effort goal context : software development metric : lines of code

nothing goal context : software development metric : lines of code

disaggregation lies damn lies statistics

RTF M running tested features metric

breakdown end user features automated acceptance tests integrated

burn up consistent features delivery from start to finish demands agility

waterfall big design up front delayed feature delivery bugs and rework

necessity 1 focus on feature delivery above design and architecture to grow feature count from the start

necessity 2 integrate early to grow feature count continuously

necessity 3 maintain customer contact to ensure features pass independent acceptance tests

necessity 4 automate tests to pass tests continuously

necessity 5 refactor to keep a clean design and maintain a smooth feature count growth curve

necessity 6 learn to be agile to deliver features in a continuous and improving stream

one metric to rule them all one metric to find them one metric to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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