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The Agile Developer's Handbook

You're reading from   The Agile Developer's Handbook Get more value from your software development: get the best out of the Agile methodology

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280205
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Flewelling Paul Flewelling
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Software Industry and the Agile Manifesto 2. Agile Software Delivery Methods and How They Fit the Manifesto FREE CHAPTER 3. Introducing Scrum to your Software Team 4. Gathering Agile User Requirements 5. Bootstrap Teams with Liftoffs 6. Metrics that will Help your Software Team Deliver 7. Software Technical Practices are the Foundation of Incremental Software Delivery 8. Tightening Feedback Loops in the Software Development Life Cycle 9. Seeking Value – How to Deliver Better Software Sooner 10. Using Product Roadmaps to Guide Software Delivery 11. Improving Our Team Dynamics to Increase Our Agility 12. Baking Quality into Our Software Delivery 13. The Ultimate Software Team Member 14. Moving Beyond Isolated Agile Teams 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Metrics that will Help your Software Team Deliver

Once our team is on its mission, it's crucial that we know we're moving in the right direction. One question that will help our team know this is: What defines our success? Answering this question helps us discover the measurements we can take to keep us on track.

In this chapter, we'll look at various real-world examples that will help our team determine the metrics they should and shouldn't be using. We'll consider negative metrics, positive metrics, metrics that give you quantitative feedback, and metrics that provide you with qualitative feedback. We'll then discuss how to make this information visible and how to measure trends over time so that you can see you're improving and moving along the right trajectory.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Qualitative versus quantitative...
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