One of the hardest things to do in any agile development environment is the production of good metrics on productivity. Jeff McKenna, one of the earliest leaders in agile development, put out a blog entry on just this point. A key issue, Jeff points out, is that at all development varmints are based on team dynamics, and it is always difficult to separate out team productivity from individual productivity.
He suggests the following rule of thumb to help build evaluation and performance systems for ads all environments.
To summarize:
50% Team performance
25% Team evaluation
25% Individual growth in functional area
Read more here.
- Michael Grollman
Tags: Jeff McKenna, performance measurements
