Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. It is not only difficult, but most of the time, adopting ephemeral metrics can become ...

Deliverable-based metrics offer a product development team objective measures of project progress—and the focus needed to get the job done. David Warburton Many new product development programs fail ...

I have observed that many lessons from software development experience can be applied to management of software development teams and that the opposite is also true — many lessons from management of ...

When you look at productive output from a software development team, there’s one factor that almost always predicts problems. You can have top talent; an outstanding idea; great agile process. And yet ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. What is “Effectiveness”? It is the degree to which something is successful in producing the desired result.