Peanuts and Crackerjacks: What Baseball Taught Me about Metrics

Because people can easily relate to a familiar paradigm, analogies are an excellent way to communicate complex data. Rob Sabourin uses baseball as an analogy to set up a series of status reports to manage test projects, share results with stakeholders, and measure test effectiveness. For
test status, different audiences-test engineers, test leads and managers, development managers, customers, and senior management-need different information, different levels of detail, and different ways of looking at data. So, what "stats" would you put on the back of Testing Bubble Gum
cards? Testing Sports Page Standing tables? Game Score sheet? And up on the giant Scoreboard that is visible to everyone? In this entertaining and informative session, Rob shows real-world examples of baseball reports he has developed and discusses ways to use the information for better decisionmaking. See if your current test reports would get on base, hit a home run, or strike out!