Metrics Team

Definition

Metrics Team

the team that is responsible for the productivity and quality metrics for an endeavor

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Metrics Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineering Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Metrics Team are to:

• Determine relevant metrics.
• Plan how these metrics will be collected, analyzed, documented, and communicated.
• Collect, analyze, document, and communicate these metrics.

The metrics team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

The metrics team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Metrics Analyst, who collects, analyzes, documents, and communicates the endeavor’s metrics.

Tasks

The metrics team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Metrics Engineering:
  • Metrics Needs Assessment
  • Metrics Planning
  • Metrics Collection
  • Metrics Analysis
  • Metrics Reporting

The metrics team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

Work Products

The metrics team typically produces all or part of the following work products:

• Metrics Work Products:
  • Metrics Plan
  • Estimation Report
  • Metrics Report

Guidelines

• Where practical, metrics should be collected automatically by tools.
• The project team should collaborate with the metrics team during metrics collection.
• The estimation report must be driven by legitimate metrics rather than unrealistic management or customer organization desires.
• The metrics team typically inherits the common guidelines from the team method component.