Chapter 7. Working with the data you’re collecting: the sum of the parts
This chapter covers
- Identifying when to use custom metrics
- Figuring out what you need to create a metric
- Combining data points to create metrics
- Building key metrics to track how well your team is working
Metrics are measurements or properties that help in making decisions. In agile processes metrics can be created from the data your team is generating to help determine where you need to take action to improve.
7.1. Combining data points to create metrics
To create a metric you only need two things:
- Data to generate the metric from
- A function to calculate the metric
In previous chapters we’ve been focusing on the data you can collect from the different systems ...
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