Mike Woodcock and Dave Francis are two of the most influential writers and designers of materials for team development of the last 30 years. This collection of Team Metrics brings together some of their very best material for measuring aspects of team performance. The collection includes a variety of audits, questionnaires and surveys, which can be used in a training environment or as real-time team interventions. The 27 items in the collection cover team and team leader skills, team development, team motivation, team roles, team culture, climate and communication, making this a must-have collection of team development materials for trainers, facilitators and team leaders. A CD is supplied with every manual which provides a Powerpoint slide presentation for each of the 27 metrics.

Summary Agile Metrics in Action is a rich resource for agile teams that aim to use metrics to objectively measure performance. You'll learn how to gather data that really counts, along with how to effectively analyze and act upon the results. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Book The iterative nature of agile development is perfect for experience-based, continuous improvement. Tracking systems, test and build tools, source control, continuous integration, and other built-in parts of a project lifecycle throw off a wealth of data you can use to improve your products, processes, and teams. The question is, how to do it? Agile Metrics in Action teaches you how. This practical book is a rich resource for an agile team that aims to use metrics to objectively measure performance. You'll learn how to gather the data that really count, along with how to effectively analyze and act upon the results. Along the way, you'll discover techniques all team members can use for better individual accountability and team performance. Practices in this book will work with any development process or tool stack. For code-based examples, this book uses Groovy, Grails, and MongoDB. What's Inside Use the data you generate every day from CI and Scrum Improve communication, productivity, transparency, and morale Objectively measure performance Make metrics a natural byproduct of your development process About the Author Christopher Davis has been a software engineer and team leader for over 15 years. He has led numerous teams to successful delivery using agile methodologies. Table of Contents PART 1 MEASURING AGILE TEAMS Measuring agile performance Observing a live project PART 2 COLLECTING AND ANALYZING YOUR TEAM'S DATA Trends and data from project-tracking systems Trends and data from source control Trends and data from CI and deployment servers Data from your production systems PART 3 APPLYING METRICS TO YOUR TEAMS, PROCESSES, AND SOFTWARE Working with the data you're collecting: the sum of the parts Measuring the technical quality of your software Publishing metrics Measuring your team against the agile principles

Mike Woodcock and Dave Francis are two of the most influential writers and designers of materials for team development of the last 30 years. This collection of Team Metrics brings together some of their very best material for measuring aspects of team performance. The collection includes a variety of audits, questionnaires and surveys, which can be used in a training environment or as real-time team interventions. The 27 items in the collection cover team and team leader skills, team development, team motivation, team roles, team culture, climate and communication, making this a must-have collection of team development materials for trainers, facilitators and team leaders. A CD is supplied with every manual which provides a Powerpoint slide presentation for each of the 27 metrics.

Winner of the Shingo Publication Award Accelerate your organization to win in the marketplace. How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter―that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance―and what drives it―using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research, making the information accessible for readers to apply in their own organizations. Readers will discover how to measure the performance of their teams, and what capabilities they should invest in to drive higher performance. This book is ideal for management at every level.

This one-stop handbook gives managers who have been charged with creating metric scorecards techniques that will make them truly effective. Written for managers who want/need to create and use scorecards, Metrics 2.0: Creating Scorecards for High-Performance Work Teams and Organizations provides a unique perspective on this vital management tool. Focusing on performance improvement, it describes the intellectual foundation behind scorecards and demonstrates how metrics can be used to enhance feedback, motivation, and employee engagement. The book offers a background primer on statistics and research methods, outlining the basics of metrics such as attributes, scope of measures, and levels of analysis to help managers understand what should go into the scorecard and why. Key techniques for using scorecards are showcased and step-by-step guidance on creating metric scorecards for teams, departments, and entire organizations is provided, including specialized situations such as customer service measurement or monitoring off-site performance. Finally, managers are taught how to analyze results intelligently and translate metrics into effective operational practices. Extensive running examples address both service and manufacturing metrics and each chapter ends with a set of learning objectives.

""This is the single best book on software quality engineering and metrics that I've encountered."" --Capers Jones, from the Foreword"Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, Second Edition," is the definitive book on this essential topic of software development. Comprehensive in scope with extensive industry examples, it shows how to measure software quality and use measurements to improve the software development process. Four major categories of quality metrics and models are addressed: quality management, software reliability and projection, complexity, and customer view. In addition, the book discusses the fundamentals of measurement theory, specific quality metrics and tools, and methods for applying metrics to the software development process.New chapters bring coverage of critical topics, including: In-process metrics for software testingMetrics for object-oriented software developmentAvailability metricsMethods for conducting in-process quality assessments and software project assessmentsDos and Don'ts of Software Process Improvement, by Patrick O'TooleUsing Function Point Metrics to Measure Software Process Improvement, by Capers Jones In addition to the excellent balance of theory, techniques, and examples, this book is highly instructive and practical, covering one of the most important topics in software development--quality engineering. 0201729156B08282002

Metrics for software development are usually employed ad-hoc and without clear directions for interpreting the numbers and acting on them. Almost every other engineering discipline has clear guidelines for measuring processes and products and making decisions based on quantified evidence. This practical book describes how to integrate processes and metrics to ensure easier and more effective enterprise software development. It crosses the divide between theory and practice and also discusses why essential processes so often fail to deliver quality industrial software. Enterprise Software Development introduces the techniques for building, applying and interpreting metrics for the workflows across the software development life cycle phases of inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It is a must read for software engineering practitioners (architects, application developers, designers and project managers), academics, and students and apprentices of software engineering.