Agile Metrics That Help (And Ones That Don't)
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Recommend agile metrics. Team context: [TEAM_CONTEXT]. Current metrics used: [CURRENT_METRICS]. Problems we want to solve: [PROBLEMS]. Return a table: Metric | What it shows | How to calculate (with an example) | Good use | Misuse risk | Include? Cover cycle time, lead time, throughput, work in progress, escaped defects, deployment frequency, sprint goal success rate, predictability (planned vs completed), team happiness, and customer outcomes. Flag poor metrics (lines of code, hours logged, individual velocity, story points compared across teams) with reasons. Pick five metrics for my context and show a sample dashboard layout with thresholds as placeholders. Add rules: measure the system not people, discuss trends not single points, pair each metric with a qualitative check, and review metrics every quarter. Include a short script for explaining to managers why a vanity metric is being dropped. Present the final five metrics with a worked calculation for each using made-up numbers labelled as examples, and give the one misuse of each that managers most commonly fall into, with a sentence to head it off.
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