Measuring success of Enterprise Agile Adoption
How do you know your Agile Adoption is successful? Few things to look for before and after:
Product Quality: Improvement of Code quality over a period of time. This can be measured as simply as open defects.
Customer Satisfaction: Because of the customer-driven prioritization, frequent releases and increased responsiveness, there is increased alignment between customer needs and product. Hence, customers are more satisfied. This can be measured using a simple product satisfaction survey before and after and seeing product usage.
Time to market: Most of Agile processes reduce lead time by promoting smaller batch-sizes, limited work in progress and continuous improvement. This can be measured using before and after lead-times to get a complete feature out to production.
Employee Satisfaction: Nothing motivates the practitioners of software development more than seeing their code working in the hands of customers. Once the process is adopted - we find a spike in the employee satisfaction and ownership. This can be measured using simple metrics like employee referrals, employee satisfaction etc.









