Pretty Agile blog posts about Agile Metrics

Measure What Matters for Business Agility: Outcomes, Flow and Competency

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 25, 2021

Everyone is always asking us what metrics they should be using with SAFe. Recently Scaled Agile updated their guidance on this very topic so we thought we would invite Andy to come and chat with us about what's new with Metrics in SAFe! Measure Read more...

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Meetups

Tags: Agile Metrics, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework

Baseline Metrics Before You Start

Em Campbell-Pretty - July 22, 2019

If you do nothing else before you launch your Agile Release Train (ART) baseline your metrics! At some point, in the not too distant future, you are going to be asked, how do you know your Agile Release Train is making a difference? For you the Read more...

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SAFe Tips & Tricks

Tags: Agile Metrics, Agile Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework

Understanding Cost in a SAFe World

Em Campbell-Pretty - June 30, 2019

In a textbook SAFe implementation, Lean Portfolio Management allocates a budget to each Value Stream and consequently each Agile Release Train (ART). The ART’s Product Manager works with the ART’s stakeholders to prioritise the work that Read more...

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SAFe Tips & Tricks

Tags: Agile Budgeting, Agile Metrics, Agile Release Train, Estimation, SAFe

Weighted Velocity: An Approach to Addressing the Impact of Planned and Unplanned Leave on Yesterday’s Weather

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 31, 2019

Updated September 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminology. Over the past few years, much has been written and tweeted about the evils of agile estimation (#noestimates). There has also been much consternation amongst agilists with respect to Read more...

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SAFe Tips & Tricks

Tags: Agile Metrics, Agile Release Train, Agile Teams, SAFe, Velocity

Facilitating SAFe Team Self-Assessments

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 27, 2015

As part of an Agile Release Train’s commitment to relentless improvement, it is necessary for all the teams on the train to reflect and assess the effectiveness of their Scrum and XP practices on a regular cadence. For most once a PI seems to be Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Metrics, Agile Release Train, EDW Release Train, Facilitation, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Self Assessment, StAART, Training From the Back of the Room

Using eNPS to Measure Team Happiness

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 12, 2013

When I accepted the role of leading the EDW delivery team, I knew my biggest challenge would be customer engagement. I had been a customer of the team for a number of years, and I am sad to say I would not have recommended their services to anyone. Read more...

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Measuring SAFe

Tags: Agile Metrics, EDW Release Train, Employee Engagement, Scaled Agile Framework, Tribal Unity

My Agile 2013 Experience - Day 3 of 6

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 21, 2013

Tuesday Agile Metrics: Velocity is NOT the goal by Michael "Doc" Norton Doc opened by explaining that Velocity is a lagging indicator for a complex system and lagging indicators are good for monitoring trends but are poor predictors of the Read more...

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Conferences