Analytics for the Software Product Manager | Velocity
Velocity for Product Leaders
The pressure to constantly ship features can result in an insurmountable amount of technical debt. Use Velocity to allocate engineering resources more strategically and allow for room to refactor in your product plan.
Methods like story points are an unscientific measure of how fast your team is moving that makes any planning efforts futile. Use concrete measures of engineering speed, like deploy volume or pull requests throughput, to have a more accurate understanding of engineering bandwidth.
The frequency and size of technical problems are hard to communicate with non-technical product stakeholders. Use Velocity metrics as a common language between product and engineering to align on necessary adjustments to the deployment plan.
“When I could advocate for invisible work, we could align the objective of the business and the engineering team.”
Mark Wunsch
VP of Engineering, Kickstarter
“Velocity helped us achieve a culture where everyone is more eager to push code.”
Shawn Plew
Lead Engineer, Tangoe
“I encourage any engineering leader to start measuring with Velocity to discover their team’s successful work habits.”
Roger Deetz
VP of Engineering, Springbuk
See patterns that contribute to productive quarters and where teams are mostly likely to slow down. A complete and shared understanding of how your team works and where it can improve allows you to create alignment around engineering success.
Use alerts and notifications to help your team stay on top of at-risk work, and use target-setting to create SMART goals that push each team to improve. Empower your team to have the autonomy to constantly push their capabilities to the next level.