June 14, 2004
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Nearly every metric can be perverted, since up- and down-ticks in the metric can come from good or bad causes. Teams driven by metrics often game the metrics rather than deliver useful software. Ask the team to deliver and measure Running Tested Features, week in and week out, over the course of the entire project. Keeping this single metric looking good demands that a team become both agile and productive.
At Agile2011, I brought along a “gift”, a nicely formatted and illustrated Kate Oneal story. I gave a copy to everyone who asked for one, and to a few people who didn’t but who I wanted…
Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.
Here’s the current code, and some commentary, for the “But We Need a Database” article. UPDATED: Comments on Python style.