Bob speaks with Michael Mah about agile and metrics at the ADPEast 2010 conference.
I speak with Michael about the M word. Yes Metrics and Agile teams have seemed to be at odds for a long time. If you look at a large enough population of teams using many differing methods you can however glean information that is useful. It turns out that on average Agile teams deliver on our goal of delivering higher quality software, predictably and without increasing costs. There is a lot the data does not say about individual teams but this information is gold when approached by one of the remaining skeptics.
With twenty-five years of project management, software development, engineering, and business experience, Bob Payne is the VP of coaching services at LitheSpeed, LLC and a leading proponent of agile methodologies and agile engineering practices. As host of the AgileToolkit podcast, Bob has produced more than 120 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and agile practitioners
