Earned Value Analysis is a common way to measure project progress and healthiness. The numbers can easily be aggregated and used to get also an overview status of a portfolio. However, calculating EV requires big planning upfront, which does not seem suitable for agile or lean startup projects. Moreover, I've seen that less experienced project managers/scrum masters/business analysis having problems calculating EVA properly and quickly.
Which KPIs do you use for reporting to a the PMO? Some KPI that can be calculated easily? That will be available from the first day in a lean startup? Saving Changes...
Ganesh KumarProgram ManagerBangalore., Karnataka, India
Hi Mirko,
You can consider, may not be from day 1. But, you can think about it.
Technical Debt incurred in the sprint.
Sprint Goals - if it has achieved sprint goals.
Self assessment metrics - ask people on various parameters, like values, customer, business values, etc. at the end of every iteration.
Value Point Delivered - Each story should have a value point. Mechanism of giving value points by business or project management. finished stories which have high value points.
Defects in story points - should be near 0. amount of work added because of defects. Saving Changes...
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