Useful Agile metrics and Jira Reports for Scrum Teams
Learn what reports and metrics you can use with your Scrum Team to help the in planning and forecasting, and identifying problems early on.
Running self-assessments for your team: NEW guide
There are always opportunities for improvement for any team! Especially, if you encourage agility and empiricism. In my latest video, I’d like to talk about why it’s important and how you can do it. I’ve already talked about Scrum specific assessments before in my previous articles, but I’d like to expand this topic to general […]
Measuring Scrum team’s Performance
There are a lot of high expectations associated with implementation of Scrum. They are often related to delivery and are based on some popular misconceptions about agility. For example, “Scrum helps teams deliver more faster”. That is the reason why many organizations implementing Scrum demand metrics that can prove it, such as velocity. Otherwise, we […]
Velocity is a made-up number 🎥
Velocity has become a word specifically associated with measuring how well a Scrum team is doing. This metric is often associated with negative feeling new Scrum Teams are feeling towards Agile in general. However, the issue with velocity is not the metric itself, but rather how we use it. In this video, I will be […]
Agile Metrics for Scrum Masters (3/3): Scrum Team’s Effectiveness
This is part 3 of the short video series on Agile metrics where we will talk about how to measure the effectiveness of a Scrum Team. If you haven’t watched the previous videos, I encourage you to check the part 1 on delivering Done Increment every Sprint and then part 2 on measuring the quality […]
Agile Metrics for Scrum Masters (2/3): Quality of Scrum
Let’s continue the discussion about Agile metrics that can help you measure your success as a Scrum Master. In part 1 of this series, we talked about delivering Done Increment every Sprint. If you haven’t watched the video or read the article, head down there now before continuing. In part 2, we will touch on […]
Agile Metrics for Scrum Masters (1/3): Delivering Done Increment
How can you evaluate your success as a Scrum Master using metrics? Agile metrics is a complicated topic with no one-size-fits-all solution. There are many options to choose from. Where do you even start? In this three part series, I’d like to explore how Scrum Master accountabilities can guide you to choose metrics you can […]
Key Agile Metrics to Measure the Success of Scrum [VIDEO]
Almost a year ago I have posted a video about Agile metrics, and it is one of the most watched videos on my channel. However, looking back, I feel that I did not deliver good enough information there. The more time I spend in my Scrum Master role, the more I learn. I learn every […]
Agile Metrics to Help Your Team Improve
Collecting some kind of metrics to show the results of your work is important, no doubt in that. However, in the case of a Scrum Master, that may seem like a daunting task considering the type of work we do. So how do you go about counting your “coaching points”? (I have just made up […]
Visual graphs and charts to increase team productivity
One of the things that Scrum Master is responsible for is making progress visible. This is an important task but I think it should not only be about progress. There is a lot of information that should be visible to the team at all times in the spirit of transparency and I think it is […]