On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Paul King <[email protected]>wrote:
> Yes, I would track features implemented and if I was serious about the > whole > thing some kind of metrics around maintenance not just development. > Interesting that you mention that, Poor maintenance will kill productivity, which will drop velocity/lead-time, so it's kind of implicitly measured. Cheers, > > Cheers, > > Paul. > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:07 PM, jr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> But lets assume you are the head of an IT department, you have several > >> development teams working under you, and you want to define a set of > >> metrics that will allow you to measure the productivity of the > >> different teams (and lets assume all teams develop in the same > >> language). What approach would you take? I understand that measuring > >> lines of code is misleading, but I fail to come up with a good solid > >> alternative. One can say that the best metric is to have each team > >> lead closely monitoring the developers on her/his team, but then we > >> know that each team lead will report at her/his own convenience. > > > > Use Scrum and track velocity or use Kanban and track lead-time > > > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "The Java Posse" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Viktor Klang > > | "A complex system that works is invariably > > | found to have evolved from a simple system > > | that worked." - John Gall > > > > Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org > > Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Viktor Klang | "A complex system that works is invariably | found to have evolved from a simple system | that worked." - John Gall Akka - the Actor Kernel: Akkasource.org Twttr: twitter.com/viktorklang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
