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Metrics: Asset or Trap? - Jani Grönman


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The KPI pairs that keep you honest.

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"If you cannot measure what you change, it's really hard to lead the change." - Jani Grönman

In this episode, I talk with Jani Grönman about KPIs for quality. We ask what to measure, and why. Jani shares pairs that keep teams honest. Test pass rate with escaped defects or flaky tests. Mean time to recovery with reopen rate. Lead time to production with customer impact. One team, one number. Keep it to three or four KPIs, own them, and act. We talk about agency at work and product sense. Your tests are not a scoreboard. They are a feedback loop. Bring product and engineering together, do root cause analysis. I left inspired to pick fewer numbers, tell stories, and ship with care.

Jani works as a Managing Partner at Hidden Trail, his mission being turning quality from a cost into competitive advantage.

Hidden Trail is a Digital Product Quality consultancy with clients in Scandinavia, Central Europe and the Americas. In Hidden Trail Jani leads advisory and transformation projects that tackle complex quality related development needs within his client companies. This means working with teams, management, product people, developers and testers to recognize where their product quality comes from and how to make it a tangible asset. Jani has 20+ years experience in software industry, during which he has worked with many teams in managerial, development and quality related roles. Jani firmly believes that quality means business!

Highlights:

  • Pair metrics with counter-metrics to prevent gaming: test coverage needs escaped defect rates as balance.
  • Teams need one shared business metric, not separate KPIs for testers versus developers.
  • Build KPIs with the team from ground up, never dictate metrics from above for compliance.
  • Testers must reach into requirements engineering early, not stay tucked in testing phase only.
  • Measure rework percentage to show teams how much time goes to fixing versus building.
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