Anna Head posted an update
Hello All, I have a quick question. I’m working to increase my understanding of agile metrics. I’ve noticed there are a number of them. Please, may you share your thoughts on the best metrics to use outside of the burn down chart and velocity to answer a stakeholder’s question of “when will it be done?”. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with me. If you are able to slide an example in there that would be great too😆
Graham Heldreth and Tolu Ojewunmi6 Comments
We can tackle in this in our next session if you want. Meeting would be easier, while I try to create/write something.
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“When will it be done”? can be a tricky thing to answer. The answer to this question should be in the form of, “The team agrees that this work item (Story/ticket/epic) can be done during the following period (date range) with X% confidence, from what we know so far”. Even trying to understand this statement needs a lot of investment in Kanban as a concept and then going into the metrics and various laws which is covered in https://www.amazon.com/When-Will-Done-Lean-Agile-Forecasting/dp/0986436372
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Velocity is a abused metric and people, especially newcomers should stay away from or only educate themselves on Why it has gotten a bad rapport in the agile world.
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Probabilistic Forecasting is the way to go.
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Agreed with this. I wrote a little bit in more detail about this idea: https://www.ccpace.com/blog/can-your-agile-forecast-look-more-like-a-weather-forecast
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Thank you @sameer Looking forward to our next session to discuss further😊
