This course helps Scrum Masters and leaders make sense of key Scrum metrics—what they are, how to interpret them, and how to use them to improve team performance and delivery predictability. You will explore essential metrics like Sprint Burndown, Sprint Burnup, Velocity, Release Burnup, Cycle Time, Lead Time, and Quality metrics.

More than just tracking numbers, you will learn how to ensure reliability, extract key insights, avoid common misuses, and create a healthy, data-informed team environment.

Whether you're a Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Agile leader, this course helps you track what matters—with purpose.

Following is the list of key topics covered in this program:

1. Sprint Burndown and Burnup

- Different ways to plot Burndown and Burnup Chart

- Interpreting Burnup/Burndown Charts - Good, Bad or Ugly?

- Burndown or Burnup – which one to use?

- Ensuring Reliable Burnup/ Burndown Charts

2. Velocity and Say/Do Ratio

- Interpreting Velocity Chart – Good, Bad or Ugly?

- How to calculate average Velocity?

- What is Say/Do Ratio? Is it a good metric?

- Ensuring Reliable Velocity Charts

3. Other Relevant Metrics

- Release Burnup - different ways to plot

- Cycle time and Lead Time – Control Chart

- Quality Metrics

4. Common Challenges with Metrics

- Challenges/ Problems/ Concerns with Velocity

- Solving for Productivity

- JIRA Limitations and Guidelines

- Making the Best of Metrics!