DATA SHEET

RALLY INSIGHTS AND

ANALYTICS WORKSHOP

Quantitative performance and Agile software development

Visibility into your software development performance
speed, quality, predictable delivery is critical to delivering
business results. Yet its challenging to provide each team
with visibility into performance, let alone effective
feedback, at scale.
How should you quantify performance? How can you
give valuable feedback to multiple teams? What do you
measure, and where do you start?
The Rally Insights and Analytics Workshop helps you
understand how to select and use software development
provide relevant feedback to you and your teams.

covers four foundational components:

Identifying the metrics controversy and avoiding
its dark side in your organization
Effectively measuring software development
performance
Understanding the correlation between your

business characteristics and goals

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AUDIENCE

Senior and mid-level managers

AGILE MATURITY

Intermediate to advanced

MAXIMUM ATTENDEES
20

LENGTH
2 days

CERTIFICATION
None

METRICS CONTROVERSY

Measuring the performance of teams is controversial

behavior, rather than using them as a form of feedback to
yield continuous improvement. Well teach you to avoid
the sins of metrics and build to the virtues.

METRICS SINS

METRICS VIRTUES

Manipulating Others

Self-Improvement

Unbalanced Metrics

Balanced Metrics

Quantitative Idolatry

Quantitative Perspective

Overpriced Metrics

Occams Metrics

Lazy Metrics

ODIM

Bad Analysis

Informed Analysis

Linear Forecasting

Probability Tools

MEASURE PERFORMANCE

Your teams need regular feedback and you need to

measure team performance but in a healthy way.
Through the workshop, youll gain an understanding
framework, and how Rally collects and provides
those measurements to your teams. Well present
recommendations that correlate with better
performance, including:
Need to improve product quality? Teams that do
full scrum achieve 250% better quality than those
that dont estimate.
Need to get new functionality to market faster?
Teams that aggressively keep work in process low
cut time to market in half.
Need to better predict when teams will deliver?
Keeping teams stable is associated with up to
40% higher predictability.
We share the research behind the recommendations,
based on real data, to help you give teams credible,
relevant measures.

IMPLEMENT A HEALTHY
METRICS REGIMEN

Now that you know what to measure and how to interpret

data to support your business, we help you create a
healthy performance-feedback system. Learn how to:
Select metrics that are easy to collect, balanced,
and meaningful to read
Co-craft an optimal way to collect and share these
measurements, including a plan for data mining,
rollout, and training

dashboards and visualizations that support your

new strategy

CONTACT YOUR RALLY SALES REP

Contact Rally at sales@rallydev.com to learn more about

the Insights and Analytics Workshop and Training.

ABOUT RALLY

Rally delivers software and services that drive agility. Organizations worldwide use Rallys solutions and enterprise-class SaaS
platform to navigate evolving market demands, improve performance, and accelerate innovation to deliver value faster.
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