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Work products are files, documents, specifications, binaries, parts, and other tangible items that are necessary to complete activities and build the product. Many times the creation of one work product is dependent on the completion of another work product. Scenario List Quality of Service Requirement List
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Project health charts aggregate metrics from work items, source control, test results, and builds. They answer questions about the actual state of your project at many scales: for the days within an iteration, iterations within a project, or projects with in a program. The questions are also relevant for many kinds of work items such as scenarios, quality of service requirements, tasks, and bugs. Remaining Work How much work is left to be done, and when will it be completed? This cumulative flow diagram shows work remaining measured as scenarios and quality of service requirements being resolved and closed in the iteration. Velocity How quickly is the team completing work? Velocity is one of the key elements for estimation. It shows how quickly the team is actually completing planned work, and how much the rate varies from day-to-day, or iteration-to-iteration. Use this data to plan the next iteration, in conjunction with the quality measures. Similar to the remaining work chart, this is most useful when looking at days within an iteration or iterations within a project. Actual Quality versus Planned Velocity How many scenarios can be completed before quality is unacceptable? As much as teams believe the saying "haste makes waste" there is usually a business incentive to go faster. A project manager’s goal ought to be to balance the two by finding the maximum rate of progress that does not make quality suffer. This graph presents the relationship, for each iteration, of estimated size to overall quality. Reactivations How many work items are being reactivated? Reactivations are work items that have been resolved or closed prematurely. A low rate of work item reactivations (for example, less than 5%) might be acceptable, but a high or rising rate of reactivation should warn the project manger to diagnose the root cause and fix it.
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