Austin's Lean Software Community
A facilitated discussion about software metrics in the form of a 5 Whys inquiry (see: 5 Whys for more).
The meeting will take place in three acts, starting with a solicitation of software metrics that the community feels are important and a brief discussion of each to ensure that everyone understands the metrics.
In the second part, we’ll choose a few of the metrics deemed most critical and explore their root cause. That is, why a metric is important and what it serves, reaching as far as we can go into root cause analysis to understand all of the conditions that lead to the necessity of the metric.
In the third part, we’ll examine metrics and measurement from the perspective of Lean production and product development to understand how measurement fits into Lean and Agile development, and to pursue an understanding of measurement that is more purpose-driven and aligned with our goals.
Scott is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. He speaks at software industry conferences and teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. Scott is the founder of the Lean Software Austin and AgileATX communities of software practitioners. He is the organizer of the Monospace, ALT.NET Open Space, and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and has served as the content chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, as well as the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. Scott is a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award.