Agile Metrics for Success

Offered by PMI

Learn how to select effective metrics that are aligned with your team and organizational goals.

PDUs7

Course Duration7 hours

Overview

If you’ve ever managed or worked on a project, you're familiar with common metrics and the dangers of measuring the wrong attributes. This course teaches you to select effective metrics aligned with team and organizational goals, so you can avoid misleading metrics and promote collaboration and information sharing more effectively.

What you'll learn

You will explore examples of metrics used by thousands of teams and a variety of reporting options. This course will also provide definitions, resources, and tools to help you create valuable tracking frameworks for your organization.

Module 1

Introducing Agile Metrics for High-Performing Teams

Explore the core concepts of evaluating and selecting agile metrics. Learn how teams use metrics to track progress, forecast delivery and understand performance while considering how measurement systems can scale.

Module 2

Why Measure?

Understand the value and potential risks of measuring performance. Explore how metrics can provide early warning signs, influence team and stakeholder behaviour and help teams focus on meaningful outcomes and value delivered.

Module 3

What to Measure – The Three Dimensions of Performance

Learn what to measure based on the type of work and level of reporting. Explore metrics at the team, program and portfolio levels and distinguish between measuring production and the capability of the delivery system.

Module 4

How to Measure – Metric Options and Trade-off Considerations

Explore how to choose appropriate metrics based on your goals and team context. Compare common metrics and their trade-offs and learn how Disciplined Agile can help you identify an approach that fits your needs.

Module 5

Scaling and Comparison – Rolling up and Drilling Down

Learn how to report and roll up metrics to provide visibility across different levels of the organization. Explore how dashboards can bring metrics together to communicate performance and support meaningful comparisons.