Defining a Metrics Strategy for Your Community
No metric is important but that one that is directly linked to the strategic goals of your community. Success is basically measured when the goals are achieved. Measuring things is 'easy' if you know …
| Talk Title | Defining a Metrics Strategy for Your Community |
| Speakers | Daniel Izquierdo (Chief Data Officer, Bitergia, InnerSourceCommons community) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit Europe |
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| Location | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Date | Oct 21-27, 2017 |
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| Slides | Talk Slides |
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No metric is important but that one that is directly linked to the strategic goals of your community. Success is basically measured when the goals are achieved. Measuring things is ‘easy’ if you know where to mine the data, but having a strategy requires context expertise, a detailed method to formalize the measuring process and a strategy regarding to awareness, process improvement, transparency and motivational actions among other key areas. Metrics are not the panacea, but help to understand the current structure and methodology followed by a software development team. And how far this is from other similar organizations. Topics include: * Goals using metrics * Areas of analysis * A formal approach such as the Goal-Question-Metric one * Strategy when using metrics * Some examples
