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Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Agile Metrics
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Using Metrics to Influence Developers, Executives, and All Stakeholders Prior Year Content

The evening before the space shuttle Challenger exploded, a group of engineers discussed what they believed was a potentially catastrophic risk. They brought the issue to NASA’s management but failed to stop the launch. As a leader in your organization, your failure to influence may not cost lives but it could be catastrophic for your business. Metrics and data are just the “What.” You need comparisons, trends, and benchmarks to explain the “So what.” But none of that matters until it changes what your organization does … the “Now what.” This is the people side of metrics and data. Larry Maccherone shows you how to get action and behavior change from your data analysis. He describes how to steer the emotional elephant of your organization and appeal to the risk tolerance level of your stakeholders. Larry finishes with an exercise and approach to decision making that will help you avoid your own cognitive biases and those of your executives.

1.00 PMI® PDU
Larry Maccherone
Larry Maccherone, AgileCraft

Larry Maccherone is an industry-recognized leader in lean, agile, metrics, and visualization. As director of analytics and research at AgileCraft, Larry’s passion for analytics and visualization is helping AgileCraft be the best way to scale agile. Previously at Rally Software, he led the Insights product line which enabled better decisions with data, leveraging big data techniques to conduct ground-breaking research and offer the first-ever agile performance benchmarking capability. Before Rally, Larry worked at the Software Engineering Institute for seven years, conducting research on software engineering metrics with a focus on reintroducing quantitative insight back into the lean and agile communities.

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