Large organizations are using balanced scorecards and dashboards to measure, monitor and forecast the performance of the organization and connect those to its vision, goals and objectives. Metrics is important for management, but how do you design metrics for agile teams? How will the metrics affect the behavior of the teams? This video provides an insight into different types of agile metrics that preserves and promotes collaboration of agile development teams.

Most of us work in software project teams, but we rarely use metrics to identify strengths and weaknesses, set and track goals, or evaluate strategies. This video gives examples of specific metrics and techniques to help you identify, analyze, and discuss the successes and failures of your software engineers and to help make the team a more cohesive and productive. If you manage or lead teams of software developers and engineers, and want to make sure that your focus is on success, you can’t afford to miss this entertaining and …

In this interview, Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic, discusses the need for developer performance metrics to enable organizations to determine the capabilities of developers. He also discusses his project known as the Limited Red Society. The goal of the Limited Red Society is to help developers limit the amount of time their code is in the red.
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/kerievsky-developer-performance-metrics

Project managers new to agile methods often have questions about how to track progress on agile projects. Some of the traditional measures don’t line up very naturally with agile thinking and agile practices. The presentation shows how to project realistic completion dates based on empirical observations based on Velocity for iterative methods and on Cumulative Flow for non-iterative methods.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-project-metrics

James Shore and Rob Myers help you examine the role of metrics on Agile teams. We take a broad survey of metrics being used on Agile projects, both traditional and innovative, and look at the value and dangers to the success of the team. We look at how the simple act of measuring, itself, can be harmful, and when it is well-justified.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-metrics