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Project Performance Management in Agile framework
Last Post 15 Aug 2012 01:01 AM by koti. 3 Replies.
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Ashok Jain New Member New Member Posts:2

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06 Jun 2012 09:08 PM
    Hi I am Ashok managing multiple projects on Agile but we are not able to find any KPI for the project performance management
    Joseph Michael Flahiff New Member New Member Posts:95

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    07 Jun 2012 09:17 AM
    Hello again Ashok,

    The ONE KPI for AGILE projects is "Working Software" That is Completed, Tested, and production ready software. This KPI is found in the Agile manifesto's principles (page 2) of the Manifesto. I recently completed a 3 day requirements (storycard) workshop with a client. And concluded by saying "Congratulations, We are now 0% closer to being done." just to drive home the point with them that requirements, design, even coding and testin, is not a measure of progress, ONLY working, completed, tested and production ready code is the measure. For those traditionally trained in Gantt methods of progress evaluation, it is a 0/100 approach. Either it is DONE AND READY or it is not. period.

    Another important metric to measure is Escaped Defects (WARNING THIS KPI CAN BE MISUSED) . That is defects that make it to production for some reason. Please remember though. Escaped defects is not a metric of how well your PEOPLE are doing. it is and only should be, a measure of how well your SYSTEM is designed to stop defects from making it to production. If defects make it to production it is ONLY because your SYSTEMS are designed to allow them to get to production. Don't punish people for escaped defects, put them to work exploring why the system allowed it. let them know that they are not the problem but we need to fix the system.
    Joseph Michael Flahiff New Member New Member Posts:95

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    12 Jun 2012 07:38 PM
    I totally forgot about this.
    I did a webinar a while back with Michael Mah of QSM and associates. they have collected 20 years of software project data(10,000 projects). All kinds of software projects agile waterfall and everything in between.
    The data is telling
    listen to the podcast here:

    http://whitewaterprojects.com/2011/...-flahiff/#
    koti New Member New Member Posts:7

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    15 Aug 2012 01:01 AM
    For me the agile KPIs are

    1. Planned Vs Delivered
    2. Escaped defects
    3. Agile Process adherence/compliance/maturity
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