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The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations
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The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations

by Mario E. Moreira
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
6h 51m
English
Apress
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© Mario E. Moreira 2017

Mario E. Moreira, The Agile Enterprise, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2391-8_20

20. Applying Agile Success Measures

Mario E. Moreira

(1)Winchester, Massachusetts, USA

With any measures, you either use them or lose them.

—Mario Moreira

Measures and metrics can be challenging because they can be both dangerous and helpful. By dangerous, I mean that if you measure the wrong thing, it can set you in the wrong direction and people can rig the measures if they think they will be used against them. They are helpful when you measure outcomes over output, as successful business outcomes are what you are looking for. They are also helpful for better decision making.

This chapter is not intended to be an inclusive set of Agile measures. It is meant ...

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