How to measure and improve team performance
IN ACTION Christopher W. H. Davis FOREWORD BY Olivier Gaudin
MANNING
Agile Metrics in Action
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Agile Metrics in Action How to measure and improve team performance
CHRISTOPHER W. H. DAVIS
MANNING SHELTER ISLAND
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brief contents PART 1 MEASURING AGILE TEAMS ............................................ 1 1
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Measuring agile performance 3 Observing a live project 20
PART 2 COLLECTING AND ANALYZING YOUR TEAM’S DATA ....... 35 3
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Trends and data from project-tracking systems 37 Trends and data from source control 62 Trends an