Identifying the Process Health Metrics
Identifying the Process Health Metrics involves identifying and establishing specific, measurable indicators that reflect the effectiveness, efficiency, and overall health of the agile process within an organisation.
Goal
To provide teams and stakeholders with clear, objective data on the performance of the agile process, enabling informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
Context
Just like a product needs to be measured against its objectives, the process that creates the product needs to be measured against its objectives. These metrics are not about measuring the performance of individuals but the performance of the process. They are used to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement.
Inputs
| Artifact | Description |
|---|---|
| Process Vision | A clear, concise statement of the desired state of the development process and the principles that guide it. |
Outputs
| Artifact | Description | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Process Health Metrics | A set of specific, measurable indicators that reflect the effectiveness, efficiency, and overall health of the product development process. | Provides a real-time overview of process health and facilitates quick identification of issues. |
Anti-patterns
- Tweaking Lead Time: Do not remove weekends, holidays, or other non-working days so make the lead time look better. This is a measure of the time the customer is waiting so it needs to be elapsed days.
- Bulking Releases: A release is not your internal project but each software release. If you merge multiple projects it still counts as one release because the idea is to discourage the bad practice of batching releases.