Agile Project Metrics should be at the level of abstraction of the target audience but answer the following questions at all times:

- Where are we?
- Are we on track?
- Are we in trouble? Why?

This is first of a series of blogs to explore the importance of metrics in an Agile project. The approach to a specific Agile project is often described as emergent. In the sense that we don’t start off with a prescribed approach in mind but we adopt as our understanding of projects grows and it’s profile and key challenges emerges. Agile metrics can be used as an aid to understanding a project’s profile (informational metrics) and it’s challenges (diagnostics metrics). The following is a list o…