I think the Agile community needs to change how it measures success for Agile teams. The ways that we gather metrics and the information we seek out of those metrics is actually getting in the way of what’s most important, making working software. The way I see it, there’s two major problems: The observer effect: [...]
Leveling the workload for your team or seeing someone’s allocation at a glance is important to any project manager. It should also be important to any team that’s looking to ship a product whether they are agile and self-organizing or use a more top-down traditional methodology. Unfortunately, many tools make leveling your team’s workload complicated, [...]