Ground breaking research on Agile performance metrics! This session answers the questions your organization is asking. You will learn how the elusive Agile impact is finally quantified, through data derived from 10,000 Agile teams across all industries. Did you know that dedicating team members doubles productivity and triples quality results? Do you know what levers will cut your time to market in half? Did you know that teams that most aggressively control their simultaneous work in process (WiP) are up to twice as Responsiveness as teams that do not?
Last year, we did the research to identify a measurement framework that accurately gauges performance along the dimensions of Productivity, Predictability, Quality and Responsiveness. We call it the Software Development Performance Index (SDPI). We then used the SDPI to analyze the data from 10,000 teams using the Rally platform to identify the patterns of behavior that lead to the best performance AND we quantified those differences so you can plug them into your own economic model and make nuanced context specific trade-off decisions.
We published a paper with findings on Team Size, Dedicated vs share people, Team Stability, Process choice, and WiP. However, we didn’t stop there. We continue to conduct research and we even built a product that uses the SDPI to benchmark your organization against the industry.
Come to this session to hear about the original findings plus any that we have published since then, but come with an open mind and be prepared to have your beliefs challenged with data. Come to see how tooling like this can help your organization get better feedback and improve.
Larry presented this topic in the largest Agile conference Agile2013 where it was voted the best presentation of the conference. He again presented on this topic with all new findings at the Agile2014 conference but he’s constantly updating it with new findings so it evolves every time. You will get to see the latest findings!