Metrics Based Refactoring

Published May 30th, 2011 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Metric_fu makes it easy to generate reports that measure code quality. Once you’ve created the reports, what do you do next? You know your code could be better. Now what? As lead developer of metric_fu, Jake Scruggs is in a great position to make recommendations about the best ways to leverage the tool.

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Measure for Measure – Lean Principles for Effective Metrics and Motivation

Published October 13th, 2010 Under Agile, Lean | Leave a Comment

This presentation explores the nature of motivation and the place of metrics and measurement in software development, and how lean software development principles and practices shed light on motivation and metrics and how they can be used to support deep organizational improvement. We will examine the nature of motivation in terms of the four intrinsic rewards that drive positive engagement, and also how certain approaches to measuring and managing performance lead to organizational dysfunction. We will also show how the application of lean principles such as building quality into the product, respect for people and optimizing the whole enable more effective approaches to motivation and metrics in software development.

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Code Metrics with Metric Fu

Published May 17th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu.

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Agile Project Metrics

Published December 16th, 2009 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Project managers new to agile methods often have questions about how to track progress on agile projects. Some of the traditional measures don’t line up very naturally with agile thinking and agile practices. The presentation shows how to project realistic completion dates based on empirical observations based on Velocity for iterative methods and on Cumulative Flow for non-iterative methods.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-project-metrics

Metrics in an Agile World

Published November 30th, 2009 Under Agile | Leave a Comment

James Shore and Rob Myers help you examine the role of metrics on Agile teams. We take a broad survey of metrics being used on Agile projects, both traditional and innovative, and look at the value and dangers to the success of the team. We look at how the simple act of measuring, itself, can be harmful, and when it is well-justified.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-metrics