Is My Team Successful? Decide It With Metrics (DeveloperWeek Global 2020)

Learn how to choose the right custom metrics to measure your team's success, analyze data, and take action, with expert insights on data visualization, goal alignment, and team involvement.

Key takeaways

Custom metrics are essential for measuring the success of a team, but it’s important to choose the right ones and not try to track everything.
Metrics should be relative, not absolute, and should be compared to a baseline or goal.
It’s important to analyze the data and take action items, rather than just looking at numbers.
Metrics can be categorized into groups, such as time, cost, and efficiency, to make them more manageable.
Custom fields in JIRA can be used to track additional data and make it easier to analyze and measure progress.
Data visualization tools can help to make the data more accessible and understandable.
It’s important to have a clear goal or objective, and then select metrics that align with that goal.
The team should be involved in the process of selecting and determining metrics.
The presentation provided some examples of how to apply metrics in software products.
The importance of tracking and monitoring metrics was emphasized, and some strategies for doing so were shared.
The talk highlighted the need to balance metrics with other important factors, such as the opinions of employees and customers.
The speaker also highlighted the importance of transparency and communication in the metrics process.
The presentation provided some insights on how to measure quality metrics, such as code coverage and code complexity.
The importance of tracking progress and identifying areas for improvement was also stressed.
The speaker encouraged the audience to reflect on their own metrics practices and think about how they could improve them.

Is My Team Successful? Decide It With Metrics (DeveloperWeek Global 2020)

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