Re:Ask HN: KPIs for a Development Team?
by ljf on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:41AM
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I'd argue that you are in a 'strong' place if the mgmt is putting off releases - not the team.
If you can be in 'can we release yet, can we release yet' frame, rather than 'when will this be ready to release?' frame, then you have a strong feature/value focused team. Again measuring the delays that are caused by mgmt, rather than you and you team, is really valuable.
And as to time to sort out these metric - lean on jira etc to create these reports automatically - metrics and reporting should be as easy and as simple and as valuable as possible, or people simply won't track them - or care about reviewing them.
If you can be in 'can we release yet, can we release yet' frame, rather than 'when will this be ready to release?' frame, then you have a strong feature/value focused team. Again measuring the delays that are caused by mgmt, rather than you and you team, is really valuable.
And as to time to sort out these metric - lean on jira etc to create these reports automatically - metrics and reporting should be as easy and as simple and as valuable as possible, or people simply won't track them - or care about reviewing them.