Alex Sloley: The Best Agile Metrics


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Summary
Look, you need metrics for your agile organization, #amiright? In the immortal words of Peter Drucker,
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
So, you need to measure things, and measure them well. And you need to measure the right things too!
Metrics on employee happiness, theoretical value, and throughput of work are just plain silly. I will reveal the metrics that you need. That mean something. And that get results.
Join us as we discover THE BEST AGILE METRICS!
Relevance
Organizations need to figure out how to measure things so they can learn and improve. It can be challenging figuring out how to measure, and perhaps even harder to figure out what to measure! I take examples of metrics anti-patterns that I have experienced in my agile career, and then make them EXTREME! I then reveal that the metrics I have offered have no value, because they have no context! I then describe processes that can help people define context of metrics so they can figure out what metrics matter to them.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will learn how to:
· identify metrics anti-patterns
· summarize discovery of metrics that matter
· use "Definition of Value" to enable teams to identify what should be measured
· select relevant metrics that map to value in a "Definition of Measurement"
· determine what work has value, or not, using the "Suckinator"
· design collaborative activities that produce relevant metrics for them
Speaker:
Alex Sloley is an agile evangelist. On top of his busy career working in companies around the world, he is an avid member of the agile community and published his book The Agile Community in 2022. He speaks regularly on the global stage and is an organizer of conference organizers. He specializes in agile training, coaching, and transformations. For those who are in the know, Alex is the Scrum Alliance Shepherd of the global Agile Coaching Retreat Advisor Team, an alumnus of the Scrum Alliance Coaching Advisory Team, a member of the Agile Alliance Reimagining Agile Team, and the Co-Chair of the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative Team. For the rest of us, that means Alex helps a lot of people and is a mover and shaker.
On the tech side, Alex is a 15-year veteran of Microsoft, where he was a Scrum Master, Scrum of Scrums Master, and Product Owner. During his tenure at Microsoft, he shipped over ten Microsoft products, worked with Microsoft Research on high-profile projects, and led his organization into an enterprise-level implementation of Scrum. Alex’s blue-chip client list includes: Cisco, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, Intel, Macquarie, Nordeus, Nordstrom, Qantas, Satori, Shell, Starbucks, WatchGuard, and Westpac. Alex is a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach, an ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching and Authorized Instructor, and a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Consultant. And a bit of an overachiever. He likes beer.
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Alex Sloley: The Best Agile Metrics