Answers to Divya: What measurable metrics scrum master uses to track the progress of agile development teams ?

Pierre E. Neis
1 min readJan 7, 2023

Tricky questions, an agile team should focus on two metrics only: time-to-market and return-of-investment. Indeed you can add a lot of other one like:

  • velocity: which is not helpful because it assumes that the team is fully dedicated, nobody leaves the team, and each time you have a new comer the old data is obsolete
  • cost of delay: is more for management than for the team
  • etc

The most important one are the first I wrote here.

What measurable metrics scrum master uses to track the progress of agile development teams ?

For a Scrum Master, the progress of a team is measured differently:

  • commitment
  • communication with the team
  • ability to say no
  • proactiveness
  • curiosity
  • team player

The only performance a scrum master should measure is behavioural.

The scrum master provides a lot of other metrics but not for the team.

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Pierre E. Neis

On my business card, I wrote Agile Coach. My Agile coaching is an evolution of systemic coaching putting myself in the system and not as an outstanding observer