Conference Abstract: Monitoring Agile Development
by Thomas Fehlmann – Euro Project Office AG, Switzerland
Estimate large software development projects more accurately and monitor progress over time
Agile teams measure their velocity for performance, based on Story Points. Story points measure effort only. They do not dis-criminate between creating new functionality and other tasks. Enhancing product quality, test coverage, removing technical debt, as well as process-related Non-functional Requirements (NFR) such as agreeing with stakeholders, getting requirements right, or documenting, consume effort but do not add functionality.
Thus, based on story points metrics only, it remains un-clear whether the product makes any progress, or the team is just looping around.
Euro Project Office has developed a method to complement a product backlog by functional size, indicating progress and completeness in unambiguous terms. The method is based on the international standard ISO/IEC 14143 and ISO/IEC 19761 or ISO/IEC 20926. NFR are understood as in [4]. Tools are available as open source and can be used by development teams for functional sizing with minimum investment into training.
This presentation explores how creation of new functionality, enhancement of existing functionality, and removal of technical debt can be achieved, and the respective effort compensated in a controlled and measurable way.
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About Thomas Fehlmann
Dr. Thomas Fehlmann is a senior expert in software metrics and testing, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt for lean and agile software development and an advocate for customer-centric product design and continuous. customer-centric testing.
He spent most of his professional life as a quality manager for software organizations. As such, he has led a few companies to global market dominance using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Six Sigma for Software. He has run the Euro Project Office since 1999 and is internationally recognized as QFD expert and as software metrics expert. Since 2016, Thomas has been an academic member of the Athens Institute for Education and Research. Since 2017, he is involved in the development of Autonomous Real-time Testing (ART). Since 2019, he is interested in cyber-physical and intelligent systems and how to build them with DevOps.
Thomas is a frequent presenter at conferences on topics including Six Sigma, QFD, 4th generation products, software quality, software testing, project management, software engineering and software metrics.