An Agile Approach to "Metrics": Applied Macromeasurements to Ensure On-Time Delivery

This article challenges the value of traditional metrics for managing product development schedules and presents a reality-based alternative which is compatible with Agile approaches such as Scrum and XP.

It is written for development managers or Scrum Product Owners who want to make decisions based on empirically derived schedule forecasts instead of shooting in the dark.