Measure and Boost Scrum Team Performance with Flow Analytics Pro
When a team decides to implement a Scrum framework, to carry out its activities and create value, it is based on a guide (The Scrum Guide) highlighting fundamental values: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. These principles, pillars of continuous improvement, offer Scrum teams a clear framework to collaborate effectively and maximize the value delivered.
However, the Scrum Guide does not describe the actions that the team must implement to achieve its objectives, with the required level of quality. Likewise, when it comes to measuring operational performance or precisely estimating future work, the guide deliberately remains not prescriptive, leaving teams free to define their own approaches.
This lack of clear guidelines for measuring performance can be a major obstacle for certain teams, who struggle to identify the right indicators or visualize inefficiencies in their workflow.
In this article, we will see how the Flow Analytics Pro solution (formerly Wiveez), respecting the spirit of the Scrum Guide, allows teams to boost their operational performance, optimize their processes, and stay aligned with the fundamental values of transparency and adaptation.
Empiricism & Continuous Improvement
Empiricism is a fundamental principle of the Scrum framework. It is based on the idea that knowledge comes from experience and decisions made based on concrete observations, rather than assumptions or rigid plans. In Scrum, empiricism is implemented through three pillars:
- Transparency:
- Important aspects of the work process must be visible and understood by everyone. Scrum teams use artifacts like the Sprint Backlog, Increment and Product Backlog to ensure this transparency.
- Inspection:
- Teams regularly inspect their work and progress toward goals to detect gaps, inefficiencies, or problems. This inspection is mainly done through events such as the Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective.
- Adaptation:
- Based on the observations made, teams adjust their processes, their backlog or their way of working to improve and stay aligned with the product objectives.
Continuous improvement is one of the operational foundations of Scrum. It is directly linked to the principle of empiricism and manifests itself in the following practices:
- Sprint retrospectives: Teams identify areas for improvement each sprint, whether to resolve problems or strengthen existing practices.
- Progressive incrementation: Each sprint offers an opportunity to improve the quality of deliverables and respond more precisely to the needs of stakeholders.
- Rapid feedback loops: Stakeholders provide feedback on the Increment during the Sprint Review, which helps teams adjust their priorities and processes.
The ultimate goal of Empiricism and Continuous Improvement is to maximize the value produced by the team while reducing inefficiencies.
Flow Metrics at the service of Empiricism and Continuous Improvement
Flow Metrics allow you to measure and analyze the efficiency and fluidity of a team’s workflow. They provide a clear view of processes, identify inefficiencies and support continuous improvement. These metrics give teams actionable data to optimize their processes, increase productivity and maximize delivered value.
Unlike solutions like Actionable Agile (55 Degrees) or Kanban Analytics (Nave), Flow Analytics Pro offers a real operational performance measurement solution, suitable for teams implementing a Scrum framework and not just Kanban Flow Metrics.
We will analyze together what metrics are offered by Flow analytics Pro, for a Scrum team
The Throughput
Flow Analytics Pro allows teams to measure the performance of their flow, through 2 charts:
- The Throughput Run chart
- The Throughput Histogram