Analysis of Agile Metrics and the Impact of Team Size
by Karen McRitchie – Galorath, USA
While general estimates of agile projects can be done with parametric models, they don’t have the granularity to consider different agile teaming scenarios. Also, agile data is mixed and it can be difficult to interpret the number the number of sprints/iterations, particularly for benchmarking purposes.
A deep study of agile projects in the ISBSG dataset that included metrics such as the number of sprints/iterations and sprint/iteration length was done. To do this, there was a fair bit of data cleansing and crosschecking done to develop comparable metrics. This resulted in a normalized velocity metric (FPs Per Sprint Week/Person) that could be used to for benchmarking purposes. This metric, along with team size could be used to examine the productivity changes with different team sizes.
This presentation will review the data analysis process, findings and how they are considered for estimating in SEER-SEM.
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About Karen McRitchie
Karen is the Vice President of product development at Galorath Incorporated and has been with Galorath Incorporated for 30 years and leads all work related to the SEER product line.
She comes from a software development and mathematical modeling background and has worked in all domains of cost estimation.
As an advocate for costing professionals, she seeks new and innovative methods to improve the state of the cost estimating and analysis practice.
