Metrics for Agile Teams — Evidence Based Management for Software Organizations

If you’re looking for metrics to report up or “status” to report up in your software organization, look no further than Evidence Based Management for Software Organizations from Scrum.org.  The framework was just recently updated in 2018.  Note that these metrics are gathered at the Product level, not the team level.  If you plan to track metrics like this, and you try to track several teams on the same Product or in the same organization, what you will find is you will create an anti-pattern.  Once teams realize that they are competing against each other, they will stop helping each other!!!  So, don’t do that!  Instead, measure at the Product level, and have the teams retrospect both at the team level and at the product level on how they improve those metrics.  Also, remember that “not everything that counts can be counted”, and always consider subjective data in addition to objective data.  With all of those caveats, I highly recommend you click on the button at the bottom of the EBM page to download the “EBM Guide” as a PDF, and start measuring today!