Saturday, May 6, 2017

Releases per bug



Traditional teams count "# of active bugs" and "# of bugs fixed per week" and the like. These drive the wrong behaviors, rewarding create/find/fix over eliminating the underlying causes of bugs.

As the bug injection rate approaches zero, you can shift how you work and how you think about bugs. A few metrics that I like for BugsZero teams:

  • # of releases since the last bug
  • # of user stories completed since the last bug
  • # of user stories shipped since the last bug

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