tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20843954.post7596685124228595742..comments2024-02-22T13:43:48.846+01:00Comments on Kallokain: Justify Agile Based On Productivity!Kallokainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15756733532883677794noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20843954.post-60201533396559887052008-02-20T02:56:00.000+01:002008-02-20T02:56:00.000+01:00Hi,Thanks for commenting on my post.Just to be cle...Hi,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for commenting on my post.<BR/><BR/>Just to be clear, my objection is not that agile should not be justified by hard numbers but that I haven't seen a metric for productivity gain specifically that both stood systematic scrutiny and was economically feasible for the average business to collect.<BR/><BR/>I agree that the ultimate measure of success in business is profit. I understand that any business decision should somehow influence revenue gains or hard dollar cost savings. <BR/><BR/>The problem with justifying an agile adoption based on revenue gains is there are so many other considerations that attempts to credit any single factor become dubious. <BR/><BR/>Cost savings need to be real not theoretical. Who did you lay off? How much budget did you give back based on agile adoption? <BR/><BR/>Jeff Sutherland has a paper that does show significant cost savings using Scrum. The subject company was a CMMI-5 organization and there commitment and rigor to measurement was higher than most companies would support and is cost justified based on the government regulations they perform under. http://tinyurl.com/2hw75s<BR/><BR/>As you describe, in my experience, measures that are tied to some non-revenue related abstract concept of "productivity" such as lines of code, story points, etc. are more problematic than helpful.<BR/><BR/>If someone can propose a relevant metric that is economical for a small to medium size business to collect, that can be measured over time in small enough units to show increased performance due to specific process changes, and doesn't create more problems than it solves, I will be happy to consider it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com