Value Delivered: You’ll need your product owner for this. Ask him to give each user story a value that represents its impact to his stakeholders. You can enumerate this with an actual dollar amount or some arbitrary number of some kind. At the end of each sprint you’ll have a number that can tell you how much value you’ve delivered to your customers through the eyes of the product owner.
This metric does not measure performance, instead it measures impact. Ideally your product owner will prioritize higher value items towards the top of the backlog and thus each sprint will deliver the maximum value possible. If you’re working on a finite project with a definite end in sight, your sprints will start out very high value and gradually trend towards delivering less and less value as you get deeper into the backlog. At some point, the cost of development will eclipse the potential value of running another sprint, that’s typically a good time for the team to switch to a new product.
Pablo Lalloni on 09 Jan 15"1. The Government has already made a commitment to Big Data by classifying it as one of the 'Eight Great Technologies' which will propel the UK to future growth and help it stay ahead in the global race. The 'Information Economy Strategy' reports on the increase in data being generated and the importance of new types of computing power in order to reap the economic value of the data. 2. This paper sets out to cover the following areas: a) Defining Big Data b) High-level trends in Big Data c) Opportunities for Big Data applications 3. In developing this paper, a 'community of interest' has been established comprising policy leads and analysts from across government with an interest in Big Data. This paper draws on their insights, insights from the private sector, academics, and the extensive open source literature on the Big Data topic."
