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Your development team uses Scrum as its process framework.
You are attempting to increase efficiency, code quality, and limit scope creep by making some changes to your team’s development process.
You need to identify key metrics for measuring the effect of any changes to your process.
Which three key metrics should you use? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
A. number of story points delivered during the sprint
B. number of manual test cases created
C. number of bugs reported by testers
D. number of tasks added to the sprint after the sprint starts
E. number of classes in the code-base
F. number of items added to the product backlog
Correct Answer: ACF
Explanation/Reference:
A: Team Velocity
The velocity metric measures the consistency of the team’s estimates from sprint to sprint. Feature story estimates are made relative to estimates of other feature stories, usually using story points. The measure is made by comparing story points completed in this sprint with points completed in the previous sprint
C: Technical Debt Management
This metric measures the team’s overall technical indebtedness; known problems and issues being delivered at the end of the sprint. This is usually counted using bugs but could also be deliverables such as training material, user documentation, delivery media, and others.
F: Retrospective Process Improvement
The Retrospective Process Improvement metric measures the Scrum Team’s ability to revise, within the Scrum process framework and practices, its development process to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next sprint.
This can be measured using the count of retrospective items identified, the number of retrospective items the Team had committed to addressing in the sprint, and the number of items worked/resolved by the end of the sprint.
Incorrect:
not D: You do not add tasks to the sprint after the sprint has been started.
Reference: Tips and best practices on implementing Agile, Scrum Metrics
