The Development Metrics You Should Use (but Don’t) • Cat Swetel • GOTO 2020

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia November 2020. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Catherine Swetel - Once Described as the Altoids of Lean-Agile Feminism @catswetel ABSTRACT Have you ever had a gut feeling a project is about to go off course but no way to validate (or invalidate) that feeling? Has your team ever been burned by an inaccurate estimate or unreasonable expectation? Have you ever wished you could peer a bit into the future? Navigating the uncertainty of knowledge work is often difficult and uncomfortable. During this session, learn new ways to visualize your team’s reliability and variability of delivery using the data you already collect. Instead of relying entirely on your gut or laboring over estimates, learn to articulate trade offs, predict outcomes and describe their likelihood. While this session doesn’t teach you to eliminate uncertainty or allow you to see the future, it does provide you with tools to explore and chart a reasonable course through the inherent ambiguity of knowledge [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 04:26 Time in process 09:09 Why probability? 17:12 Throughput 23:18 Trade offs 26:47 Positive vs. negative net flow 35:57 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/november-2020/sessions/1636/the-development-metrics-you-should-use-but-don-t https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Communication #Agile #People #Teams #HumanFactor Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1