Book description
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. Along the way, you'll pick up practical data analysis techniques, including a few emerging Big Data practices.
About the Technology
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.
What's Inside
- Use the data you generate every day from CI and Scrum
- Improve communication, productivity, transparency, and morale
- Objectively measuring performance
- Make metrics a byproduct of your development process
About the Reader
Practices in this book will work with any development process or tool stack. For code-based examples, this book uses Groovy, Grails, and MongoDB.
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.
Quotes
A steadfast companion on your expedition into measurement.
- From the Foreword by Olivier Gaudin, SonarSource
The perfect starting point for your agile journey.
- Sune Lomholt, Nordea Bank
You'll be coming up with metrics tailored to your own needs in no time.
- Chris Heneghan, SunGard
Comprehensive and easy to follow.
- Noreen Dertinger, Dertinger Informatics, Inc.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Part 1. Measuring agile teams
- Part 2. Collecting and analyzing your team’s data
- Part 3. Applying metrics to your teams, processes, and software
- Appendix A. DIY analytics using ELK
- Appendix B. Collecting data from source systems with Grails
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Agile Metrics in Action
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2015
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617292484
You might also like
book
Kanban in Action
Kanban in Action is a down-to-earth, no-frills, get-to-know-the-ropes introduction to kanban. It's based on the real-world …
book
Learning Agile
Learning Agile is a comprehensive guide to the most popular agile methods, written in a light …
book
Agile Retrospectives
Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went wrong on a project. But …
book
Succeeding with Agile
Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any Organization This is the …