Metrics that matter: What’s worth measuring?

Metrics that matter: What’s worth measuring?

Few topics spark as much debate among agile practitioners as story points and estimates. Helpful planning tools or sources of dysfunction?

We’ll open with a short talk based on an ethnographic study by Sonja Trifuljesko, diving into this controversy firsthand. Then, we’ll shift into a hands-on workshop to tackle a broader challenge: Which metrics actually help our teams, and which ones just create noise?

In the workshop, we will:

• Map the metrics we use: What do we actually track?
• Spot the helpful ones: Which metrics serve us, and why?
• Examine the rest: Why do some metrics feel unhelpful, or even harmful?
• Consider the alternatives: What would be better to measure instead?

Bring a metric you love, one you can’t stand, or a situation where you weren’t sure what to measure.

Let’s compare notes and figure out what’s really worth measuring!

Your host

Sonja Trifuljesko is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research explores how new ways of organizing expert work, aimed at enhancing productivity and efficiency, affect experiences of experts themselves and the social dynamics of workplaces. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, where she studies agile metrics as a part of the ERC-funded project Properties of Units and Standards.

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